More than 150 independent rural hospitals across eight states have banded together into clinically integrated networks over the past three years, betting that shared scale, data and negotiating leverage can keep them out of the arms of consolidating systems and…
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Last summer, President Donald Trump stood at the White House and promised healthcare providers would soon be able to “kill the clipboard” — no more having patients fill out the same paperwork at every appointment, no more chasing down records…
Chronic kidney disease (CKD) affects an estimated 37 million U.S. adults — more than 1 in 10 — making it one of the most common chronic conditions in the country. But access to nephrology care is uneven. Patients in major…
Inpatient CDI has traditionally depended on disruptive retrospective queries, fragmented workflows, and clinicians revisiting the record days or weeks after discharge. What changes when context and documentation guidance arrive during the encounter, while the clinical context is still fresh? Health…
Oct 15, 2026 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM CDT
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A Ukrainian national who helped deploy Conti ransomware against more than 1,000 victims worldwide has been sentenced to four years in prison for conspiracy to commit wire fraud. Oleksii Oleksiyovych Lytvynenko, 44, formerly of Cork, Ireland, admitted to joining the…
Clinical reviewers open a utilization management or appeals case and spend most of it assembling evidence — hundreds of pages, several source systems and a fax queue that has outlasted every modernization plan built around it. The determination itself is…
Oct 13, 2026 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM CDT
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- Mark Miller, Sr. VP of Insurance and Strategic Accounts, Naviant
- Jason Bui, Head of Healthcare, UiPath
GLP-1s Are Not the End of Bariatric Surgery — They Are Reinventing Obesity Care The rise of GLP-1 medications is one of the most consequential changes in obesity care in decades. Not surprisingly, bariatric surgery is feeling the impact. As…
Ambient AI gained much of its early traction in healthcare as a documentation tool for physicians. Now, a growing number of health systems are testing whether the technology can do something similar for nurses. Recent pilots and rollouts at Mercy,…
Ten years ago, Renton, Wash.-based Providence Health & Services and Irvine, Calif.-based St. Joseph Health combined into a single Catholic health system spanning seven states. Today, Providence operates 51 hospitals and more than 1,000 clinics across Alaska, California, Montana, New…
Epic is accelerating its push to embed AI and shape the broader healthcare data ecosystem in 2026, rolling out new tools, weighing in on federal AI policy and taking legal action tied to national interoperability networks. From new AI tools…