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Health plans are measured on member experience, security, quality and efficiency. Yet one capability quietly underpins all four: Knowing, with confidence, exactly who each member is. As member data spreads across digital and assisted channels, that confidence erodes. Duplicate records,…

Nov 5, 2026 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM CST

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  • Brad Bauer, SVP and general manager, healthcare, LexisNexis® Risk Solutions

Healthcare supply chain teams are under pressure from every angle: labor shortages, increasing complexity and rising expectations to do more with less. At the same time, procurement itself is changing, as AI and automation reshape how the work gets done.…

Oct 7, 2026 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM CDT

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Presenters:
  • Kyle Snider, Vice President, Supply Chain, MemorialCare
  • Michael Hopkins, VP Supply Chain Distribution & Logistics, Northwestern Memorial Hospital
  • Dameka Miller, Senior Vice President, Supply Chain Management, Trinity Health
  • Ginger Sharp, Vice President and Chief Supply Chain Officer, Legacy Health
  • Kellan Tittle, MBA, Chief Financial Officer, People Incorporated Mental Health Services

California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed legislation Sept. 30 establishing new safeguards for clinical judgment and addressing bias in AI tools used in healthcare. The measures are part of a broader package of AI laws protecting workers and consumers. The healthcare…

Health systems deliver complex care every day. Far less of it reaches the final bill intact. Between the bedside and the claim sits a patchwork of quality teams, coders, retrospective reviews and post-discharge vendors, all working to reconstruct decisions already…

Nov 12, 2026 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM CST

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  • Dr. Yair Saperstein, CEO, Co-Founder, Hospitalist
  • Matt Hoffman, Chief Commercial Officer, Avo

Ryan Southcomb has been named CFO of Ascension Saint Joseph – Chicago, according to an Oct. 1 news release shared with Becker’s. Prior to his new role, Mr. Southcomb served as a regional CFO for Prime Healthcare. He also served…

Fusion-guided biopsy helped transform prostate cancer diagnosis and gave clinicians a more precise way to target MRI-identified lesions. Now image guidance is entering its next chapter — expanding beyond biopsy to shape how targeted, minimally invasive interventions are planned and…

Oct 7, 2026 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM CDT

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Presenters:
  • Rajan T. Gupta, MD, Professor of Radiology & Urology; Vice Chair, Clinical Affairs; Director of Imaging, Duke Cancer Institute Center for Prostate & Urologic Cancers, Duke University Medical Center
  • Dr. Srinivas Vourganti, MD, Urologic Oncologist, Director of Image Guided Focal Therapy, Robotic and Minimally Invasive Surgery, Cleveland Clinic, Glickman Urological & Kidney Institute
  • Kevin Coady, National Business Leader, Precision Diagnosis Solutions, Philips
  • Paavo Immonen, Category Leader, Disease Management Solutions, Philips

As health system “megamergers” become more prominent, some state officials are calling for closer scrutiny of deals that would create larger regional and cross-market organizations. Two major proposed combinations — HealthPartners and Essentia Health in Minnesota, and Atrium Health and…

Somerville, Mass.-based Mass General Brigham has formally launched The Cooperative, an initiative building healthcarewide models to protect patients from extreme heat and poor air quality. The health system unveiled the initiative Sept. 22 at The Cooperative’s first Innovation Forum. The…

Merck has stopped manufacturing and marketing Recarbrio, an antibiotic that targeted multidrug-resistant infections.  The FDA approved Recarbrio (cilastatin sodium, imipenem and relebactam) in July 2019 for adults with complicated urinary tract infections or complicated intra-abdominal infections who have limited or…

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