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Webinars Closing the Gap Between Workplace Violence Prevention Programs and Frontline Reality

Workplace violence prevention (WPV) has become a priority across healthcare, with organizations investing in committees, reporting processes, and formal programs. Yet despite this progress, many efforts focus solely on physical skills, without addressing staff readiness. Inconsistent adoption, competing priorities, and…

Jun 18, 2026 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM CDT

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  • Susan Driscoll
  • Don Krohn
  • Gina Skjerseth

Spine surgeons want fewer patients. AI may play a role in triage

For years, AI’s role in spine care has been pitched as a future tool, something that might eventually help with imaging, planning or documentation. But a group of surgeons and health systems is using AI for a more immediate problem:…

By: Sophie Eydis

Webinars How Emplify Health by Gundersen Aligned Surgical Asset Spending with Long-term Growth

Sterile processing departments and operating rooms often hit a breaking point before real change occurs. Emplify Health by Gundersen acted earlier. Leaders identified early warning signs that threatened surgical throughput and long-term expansion. Instead of turning to short-term fixes, the…

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  • Leah Schild
  • Jennifer Greisen

Webinars Medicare and Medicaid Payment Integrity Shifts: Headlines vs Real-world Impact

As Medicare and Medicaid oversight intensifies, health plans are navigating a more complex landscape where policy ambiguity, state variability, and heightened enforcement are exposing gaps between intent and execution. Prepay strategies are gaining momentum as they prevent avoidable spend before…

Jun 29, 2026 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM CDT

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  • Cereasa Horner
  • Kevin J. Malone
  • Philo D. Hall

5 orthopedic surgeons leading outpatient joint replacement programs

Outpatient joint replacement is rapidly reshaping orthopedic care as advances in minimally invasive surgery, anesthesia, rapid recovery protocols and care coordination make same-day hip and knee replacement increasingly common. Across the U.S., orthopedic surgeons are leading the shift toward ambulatory…

By: Sophie Eydis

Spine speaker spotlight: Dr. Craig Della Valle 

Craig Della Valle, MD, is the Aaron G. Rosenberg Endowed Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery and chief of the section of adult reconstruction at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago. Dr. Della Valle focuses his clinical practice on primary and revision…

By: Sophie Eydis

The orthopedic surgeon behind same-day joint replacements

Twenty-five years ago, when Richard Berger, MD, began talking about outpatient joint replacement surgery, much of the orthopedic community found the idea absurd. At the time, hip and knee replacement patients routinely spent seven to 10 days in the hospital…

By: Sophie Eydis

Atreon Orthopedics, RenovoDerm merge

Atreon Orthopedics and RenovoDerm have merged, according to a May 19 news release. Together the companies will leverage a comprehensive platform of synthetic biomaterial products, expanded clinical indications across orthopedic care and unified Autobiologic technology. “This merger accelerates our ability to…

By: Carly Behm

Dr. Todd Alamin debuts LimiFlex dynamic sagittal tether

Todd Alamin, MD, Empirical Spine’s co-founder, performed the first two commercial cases using the LimiFlex dynamic sagittal tether, according to a May 19 news release. The cases were performed at Stanford (Calif.) Medical Center to address Grade I lumbar degenerative…

By: Carly Behm
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