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What MaineHealth and Dayton Children's see in compensation data that others miss

Most health systems treat physician compensation as an administrative function but a handful of systems are proving that assumption wrong. At MaineHealth, Dayton Children’s Hospital and Cayuga Health, trusted compensation and performance information is changing how physicians, compensation teams, operational…

Oct 28, 2026 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM CDT

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Jeffrey Penoyer - MHA, Chief Operating Officer of Cayuga Health & Deputy COO, Centralus Health
Derek Theodor, Executive Director, Provider Enterprise & Primary Care, Dayton Children’s Hospital
Michele Mays, Provider Compensation Manager, MaineHealth
Brett Pinnix, Vice President of Account Management, Simpliphy
Chris Carson, Senior Advisor, Simpliphy

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Bridging digital strategy and clinical reality: What the executive-physician divide reveals

Health systems and physicians largely agree on where digital health should take healthcare. New research shows they often part ways on how to get there. A survey of 100 health system executives and 233 physicians found executives tend to judge…

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AI Vendor Assessment Toolkit

Nearly every vendor serving health plans now claims to offer artificial intelligence for clinical review. Far fewer can show how their tools reason or whether clinicians can trust and validate what the AI produces. For utilization management teams, that gap…

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4 supply chain leaders on what they want from the big 3 GPOs

Vizient, HealthTrust and Premier now serve more than 80% of U.S. hospitals, up from 62% a decade ago. Hospital supply chain leaders want the three group purchasing organizations to put their market power to better use, from pricing and transparency…