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:…
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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
Clinical Operations Director, Emplify Health by Gundersen
Jennifer Greisen
Principal, Strategic Solutions, Aesculap
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 America/Chicago
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Cereasa Horner
Director of Policy & Payment Integrity, CERIS
Kevin J. Malone
Member of the Firm, Epstein Becker Green
Philo D. Hall
Member of the Firm, Epstein Becker Green
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…
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…
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…
AI adoption in healthcare is accelerating, but most organizations are still working through how to embed it into real workflows and decision-making in a consistent, scalable way. This session introduces a practical framework for operationalizing AI—centered on how decision-making shifts…
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Tony Hong
Director of App Development, Integration, and EDW, Keck Medicine of USC
Betty Kim
Director, AI Products, UiPath
Peter Reischer
Senior Healthcare Solution Engineer, UiPath
Chris Jordan
Director, Healthcare Solution Engineering, UiPath
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…
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…
DeGen Medical is expanding its patient-specific spine platform, which is designed to offer a streamlined off-the-shelf workflow and devices for complex spine pathologies, according to a May 18 news release. The company’s implants are designed to match patient anatomy and…