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For a 197-bed community hospital in the remote Four Corners region — the sole health system 180 miles from the nearest major city — surgical access is a community lifeline. But manual, Excel-based OR tracking created bottlenecks, operational blind spots…

Oct 13, 2026 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM CDT

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  • Carlo Hallak, MD, Physician Informatics Executive, San Juan Regional Medical Center
  • John Gaede, CPHIMS, MLS (ASCP), Chief Information Officer, San Juan Regional Medical Center

Payers are applying artificial intelligence to examine more claims and apply adjudication logic at a scale most organizations cannot match. Industry research shows 84% of health insurers report using AI or machine learning in some capacity. Providers are unlikely to…

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Growth is on the table for a lot of organizations right now: new locations, a multi-specialty acquisition, possibly a private equity partner. The revenue cycle has to scale with it.A hybrid model creates that room. Keep the functions your team…

Sep 23, 2026 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM CDT

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  • Jerrilyn Ivey, CCS-P, CPCD, CPMA, MHA, MBA, Vice President, Revenue Cycle Management, NextGen Healthcare

Nearly 90% of health IT leaders say their operations have to change to keep pace with rising clinical, regulatory and financial complexity, according to a 2026 survey from CHIME. Eighty percent of them called interoperability a baseline expectation rather than…

Oct 23, 2026 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM CDT

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  • Zach Grieshop, AVP Technical Services, CereCore

There was no single metric that told Dr. Mary Affee her practice had outgrown its operations, and that was the frustrating part. She had built Horizon Integrated Wellness in Cary, N.C., from the ground up as a clinician. The systems…

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  • Dr. Mary Affee, Founder and CEO, Horizon Integrated Wellness
  • Shikhar Khanna, Founding Member, Nanonets Health

For patients with disease at multiple spinal levels, surgeons have traditionally faced a binary choice: fuse everything or disc replacement. Ramin Raiszadeh, MD, of San Diego Spine and Brain Institute, said he now routinely does both in the same operation…

Gunnar Andersson, MD, PhD, a longtime orthopedic surgery leader and founding member of the International Society for the Study of the Lumbar Spine, has died. Dr. Andersson joined Chicago-based Rush University Medical Center in 1985 and served as chairman of…

Casper (Wyo.) Orthopedics will add Trevor Mordhorst, MD, a physiatrist specializing in interventional spine and musculoskeletal medicine, effective Sept. 1. Dr. Mordhorst will provide spine and musculoskeletal care, according to an August news release shared with Becker’s. His clinical services…

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