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Sanjay Konakondla, MD, a neurosurgeon, trained for almost the opposite kind of spine surgery. During fellowship at Providence, R.I.-based Brown…
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Robotic-assisted joint reconstruction has reshaped how surgeons plan and perform total joint procedures. Most of the attention goes to implant positioning and surgical precision. Far less goes to the operating room that has to support those procedures day after day.…
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- James Germano, MD, Orthopedic Surgeon, Joint Reconstruction Specialist
- Tim Tzimas, President & CEO, Innovative Sterilization Technologies
Explore the often overlooked preanalytical factors that can impact urinalysis accuracy, from collection and transport to storage, preservation, and handling. This session reviews common causes of false-positive and false-negative results, current CLSI, EFLM, and ASM best practices, and practical strategies…
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Picture an inpatient room where the bedside nurse, virtual clinician, patient and operational leader are connected through a unified care environment, with virtual nursing extending the care team, AI-assisted safety monitoring supporting patients and clinicians, and digital technologies creating a…
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- Mandy Richards, DNP, RN, NEA-BC, Chief Nursing Executive, Intermountain Health
Healthcare workforce strategy has become an enterprise issue. As healthcare organizations rely on increasingly varied workforce models, the external contracting infrastructure supporting that workforce often remains fragmented across labor categories, facilities, agencies, contracts, and regional labor markets, raising a question…
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- Kevin Lewis, Senior Vice President, ProcureMed Alliance
- Jeff Niles, Executive Vice President, HWL
- Craig Hershovitz, Executive Vice President, ProcureMed Alliance
Risk adjustment has traditionally lived downstream of the patient visit, reconstructed after the fact through chart review, queries and coding. This session explores what changes when documentation integrity becomes part of the clinical conversation itself, not a separate process layered…
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- Eric Bricker, MD, Internal Medicine Physician and former Co-Founder and Chief Medical Officer, Compass Professional Health Services
- Andrew Miner, MD, Chief Health Informatics Officer, Inova Health
- Padmanabhan Premkumar, MD, System Senior Vice President and President, Hartford HealthCare Medical Group and CEO of Integrated Care Partners
Vinod Dasa, MD, used to send knee replacement patients home with prescriptions for dozens, sometimes more than 100, opioid pills. At the time, it did not feel unusual. Total knee replacement hurt. Patients expected narcotics. Surgeons prescribed them. “I didn’t…
Roughly 70 percent of medical decisions depend on lab results but lab spending remains one of the least scrutinized lines in a health plan’s budget. That blind spot is getting more expensive. Routine testing spend is climbing faster than the…
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New York City-based Mount Sinai neurosurgeon Christopher Kellner, MD, was elected chair of the joint American Association of Neurological Surgeons/Congress of Neurological Surgeons Cerebrovascular Section. Dr. Kellner’s one-year term began after the Society for Neurointerventional Surgeons and Cerebrovascular Section Joint…
VB Spine acquired exclusive rights to Augmedics’ CT-to-fluoroscopy technology for spine applications and will integrate the technology into its xvision Spine System platform. The CT-Fluoro technology uses a patient’s preoperative CT scan with fluoroscopic images from a standard 2D C-arm…
Physicians have been clear that prior authorization delays and denials remain one of the most persistent operational headaches in practice. That headache, surgeons say, drags out surgical scheduling, adds administrative burden and, in some cases, drives patients out of treatment…
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