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For years, joint replacement surgeons responded to falling reimbursement by getting more efficient. They shortened hospital stays, moved appropriate cases outpatient, reduced readmissions, optimized patients before surgery and absorbed more of the work before and after the operating room. When…

Endoscopic spine surgery is advancing faster than the workforce trained to perform it.  That, Ben Burch, MD, believes, is the field’s real bottleneck. “I don’t think we have a technology problem in spine surgery,” Dr. Burch, an orthopedic spine surgeon…

Globus Medical acquired Higgs Boson Health, a digital healthcare experience company conceived and developed at Durham, N.C.-based Duke University, according to an Aug. 26 news release. Higgs Boson’s software developers and AI scientists will join Globus Medical, according to an…

For multi-location dental groups, the month-end close is too often a manual, high-stress scramble — and the more locations and entities you add, the harder it gets. But the close is more than a back-office chore. How quickly and cleanly…

Sep 28, 2026 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM CDT

Presented by:

Presented by
Presenters:
  • Dawn Johanknecht, CPA, CFO, Szmanda Dental Center SC
  • Angie Hopper, COO, Premier Dental Center
  • Peter Rivoli, Managing Partner; Owner, Founder and Orthodontist, High Rye Dental. Rivoli Dental
  • Sherry Hassler, COO & EOS Integrator, Today’s Dental
  • Melissa O'Dowd, Director, Growth – Healthcare & Nonprofit Verticals, Sage

Healthcare organizations are projected to face about 1.9 million job openings each year through 2034, driven by growing demand and the need to replace workers leaving the field. For years, health systems have tackled workforce challenges one at a time…

Sep 29, 2026 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM CDT
Presenters:
  • Andrea Derler, Ph.D., Principal of Research and Value, Visier
  • Madeline Laurano, Founder and Chief Analyst, Aptitude Research

Revenue at Aurora Spine fell 18.7% to $3.66 million in the second quarter of 2026, from $4.50 million during the same period in 2025. “The second-quarter results were disappointing,” CEO Trent Northcutt said in an Aug. 27 news release, pointing…

During Hurricane Ida in 2021, FEMA reported 39 Louisiana medical facilities were running on generator power. Traditional emergency systems are built to carry only a fraction of a hospital’s operations and when an outage stretches from hours into days, that…

Oct 1, 2026 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM CDT

Presented by:

Presented by
Presenter:
  • Jim Barbour, VP, Utilities East, ERock

Phoenix-based OrthoArizona is adding clinics, imaging, surgery centers and physicians across Arizona. For CEO Rajan Bhatt, MD, the harder challenge is not finding reasons to grow. It is building an organization large enough to capture that demand without losing the…

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