With industry labor costs approaching $900 billion and many organizations losing significant nursing time to administrative work, even small inefficiencies carry major financial consequences. EMRs, HRIS platforms, ERP systems and scheduling tools each support critical functions but the data rarely…
Presented by:
Bharat Sundaram
Chief Executive Officer, Hallmark
Bonnie Jensen
Chief Nurse Executive, Bryan Health
Kevin Ward, former CEO of Des Moines-based Iowa Orthopedic Center, was awarded $1.3 million by an arbitrator after disputing his termination in a 2023 lawsuit, the Des Moines Register reported May 18. Mr. Ward was CEO of the practice from…
Pediatric long-term residential care demands continuous visibility across dispersed neighborhoods, especially for children moving on and off mechanical ventilation. Elizabeth Seton Children’s Center expanded ventilator beds in its home-like environment and adopted a customizable clinical surveillance platform integrating ventilator and…
Presented by:
Yelena Yadgarova
Director of Respiratory Services, Elizabeth Seton Children’s Center
Christopher Moore
Director of Quality, Elizabeth Seton Children’s Center
Giridhar Poondi
NA Regional Marketing Acute Care Informatics, Philips
Medtech company PainTEQ has commercially launched TRAQ SI Joint Fusion, which is designed to engage the sacral and iliac cortices for bi-cortical fixation. The posterior SI joint implant is delivered through a tissue-sparring, 1-inch incision. By engaging the acral and…
Kornelis Poelstra, MD, PhD, of The Robotic Spine Institute of Las Vegas completed his 2,000th robot-assisted spine surgery. Dr. Poelstra has performed robot-assisted spine surgeries for more than 16 years using multiple platforms including SpineAssist, Renaissance, Mazor X, LEM, and…
Tim Kephart is the new CEO of Orthopedic Health of Kansas City (Mo.), he said in a May 15 LinkedIn post. Mr. Kephart previously was CEO of KCPM Health in Kansas City, according to his LinkedIn profile. He was in…
Few hospital decisions carry more downstream impact than the ED disposition call: discharge, observation or inpatient admission. The wrong determination can trigger denials, audits and revenue loss long after the patient has gone home. This new white paper from a…
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A patient in crisis arrives at the ED, is stabilized, discharged with a referral — and never connects with follow-up care. Weeks later, they return. The cycle repeats. For many health systems, this is still the default model. It doesn’t…
Presented by:
Laura Bauer
Vice President of Strategy, Iris Telehealth
Carolyn Mcekron-Bragg
Clinical Director, Southern Regional Medical Center, Prime Healthcare
Jennifer Cullen, MSW
President Of Behavioral Services, Beth Israel Lahey Health
Jason Betts, DNP, RN, CEN, NEA-BC
Director Of Patient Care For Emergency & Behavioral Health Services, Emory Healthcare
LalithKumar Solai, MD
Vice Chair, Clinical Services, Department, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Medical University of South Carolina
A woman filed a lawsuit against Abbott alleging her Eterna spinal cord stimulator was improperly programmed and led to worsened pain, AboutLawsuits reported May 13. The lawsuit names Abbott Laboratories, the device manufacturer, and the FDA, which approved the device,…
Telehealth programs don’t stall because of a lack of vision; they stall when policy requirements outpace implementation. This session is designed to close that gap. Healthcare leaders from health systems, clinics and telehealth resource centers will walk through how to…
Presented by:
Cynthia Garza Moore
Interim Program Director | Pili Ola Telehealth Project Coordinator | Pacific Basin Telehealth Resource Center
