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Robotic-assisted joint reconstruction has reshaped how surgeons plan and perform total joint procedures. Most of the attention goes to implant positioning and surgical precision. Far less goes to the operating room that has to support those procedures day after day.…

Sep 24, 2026 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM CDT

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  • James Germano, MD, Orthopedic Surgeon, Joint Reconstruction Specialist
  • Tim Tzimas, President & CEO, Innovative Sterilization Technologies

Explore the often overlooked preanalytical factors that can impact urinalysis accuracy, from collection and transport to storage, preservation, and handling. This session reviews common causes of false-positive and false-negative results, current CLSI, EFLM, and ASM best practices, and practical strategies…

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Picture an inpatient room where the bedside nurse, virtual clinician, patient and operational leader are connected through a unified care environment, with virtual nursing extending the care team, AI-assisted safety monitoring supporting patients and clinicians, and digital technologies creating a…

Sep 28, 2026 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM CDT

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  • Mandy Richards, DNP, RN, NEA-BC, Chief Nursing Executive, Intermountain Health

Healthcare workforce strategy has become an enterprise issue. As healthcare organizations rely on increasingly varied workforce models, the external contracting infrastructure supporting that workforce often remains fragmented across labor categories, facilities, agencies, contracts, and regional labor markets, raising a question…

Sep 25, 2026 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM CDT

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  • Kevin Lewis, Senior Vice President, ProcureMed Alliance
  • Jeff Niles, Executive Vice President, HWL
  • Craig Hershovitz, Executive Vice President, ProcureMed Alliance

Risk adjustment has traditionally lived downstream of the patient visit, reconstructed after the fact through chart review, queries and coding. This session explores what changes when documentation integrity becomes part of the clinical conversation itself, not a separate process layered…

Aug 19, 2026 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM CDT

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  • Eric Bricker, MD, Internal Medicine Physician and former Co-Founder and Chief Medical Officer, Compass Professional Health Services
  • Andrew Miner, MD, Chief Health Informatics Officer, Inova Health
  • Padmanabhan Premkumar, MD, System Senior Vice President and President, Hartford HealthCare Medical Group and CEO of Integrated Care Partners

The anesthesia workforce shortage is not new news to ASCs and physicians – the projected shortage of anesthesiologists by 2036 will hit 6,300, and by 2033, the U.S. is projected to face a shortage of about 12,500 CRNAs, nearly 22%…

Anesthesia has become one of the most persistent staffing headaches for ASCs and hospitals alike. It’s not just a bad labor market, but a pipeline problem stacked on top of an aging workforce, a bottlenecked training system and a reimbursement…

Roughly 70 percent of medical decisions depend on lab results but lab spending remains one of the least scrutinized lines in a health plan’s budget. That blind spot is getting more expensive. Routine testing spend is climbing faster than the…

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ASCs are already contending with a broader staffing crunch, including a physician shortage and a shrinking anesthesia workforce that recruiters describe as a widening supply problem.  Layered on top of that shortage, the price of replacing even one departing physician…

Fort Myers, Fla.-based Millennium Physician Group and Mishawaka, Ind.-based Franciscan Alliance have partnered to expand access to care in Indiana.  The collaboration brings together the Franciscan Alliance physician network with Millennium Physician Group’s physician-led operating model, practice management expertise, advanced…

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