ASCs are commanding the highest rent increases of any outpatient facility type, with rents climbing more than 8% even as leases surged 145% between 2022 and 2025, according to a March 26 report from real estate company CBRE. Here are…
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An Ascension-affiliated clinic in Pawhuska, Okla. will close June 30, raising concerns about access to care in the Osage County community, KJRH reported March 31. The closure leaves Pawhuska with one remaining clinic, according to the report. The local hospital…
US Heart & Vascular and health technology company Iterative Health have formed a strategic partnership to expand USHV’s cardiovascular clinical trial capabilities. The agreement brings USHV’s research sites into Iterative Health’s global site network, which now spans more than 100…
Pittsburgh-based UPMC Children’s Hospital has opened a new pediatric cardiology clinic at Children’s Pine Center in Wexford, Pa. The site consolidates services previously offered at Children’s North and integrates patients from the practice of Prapti Kanani, MD. Staff from both…
Interoperability has long been healthcare’s unfinished project. Despite decades of investment, the industry still operates within fragmented data environments that struggle to keep pace with care delivered across hospitals, physician groups, labs, post-acute providers and community settings. As care delivery…
May 6, 2026 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM America/Chicago
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Amy Roberts
Director of Health Information Systems and Information Technology, Raleigh Neurology Associates
Sam Lambson
Vice President of Product Management, Platform, athenahealth
Lauren M. Smith MD, MBA
Chief Medical Officer Cook County Health
Nilesh Desai, MBA, BS, RPh, CPPS, CPEL
Chief Pharmacy Officer University of Miami Health System
The John Locke Foundation, a Raleigh, N.C.-based, free-market think tank, is supporting a North Carolina ophthalmologists’ challenge to the state’s certificate-of-need laws, according to an amicus curiae brief filed April 1 in the state Supreme Court. Jay Singleton, DO, owner…
Forward-thinking rural health systems are not approaching the $50B Rural Health Transformation Program as a one-time funding opportunity; they’re treating it as a catalyst to rethink how care is delivered, how clinicians work, and how long-term sustainability is achieved. Across…
May 13, 2026 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM America/Chicago
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Meghan Sims
Director of Partner Success, Abridge
Dr. Veronica Hooper
Chief Health Officer, Yakima Valley Farm Workers Clinic
The Leapfrog Group is expanding its Ambulatory Surgery Center Public Reporting Program to include nearly 4,000 ASCs in the U.S. The expanded program will use CMS public reporting, accreditation standards and its “ASC Survey 2.0” measure and report ASC performance,…
Brentwood, Tenn.-based Surgery Partners is one of the largest players in the ASC space, with a network of more than 200 centers across 33 states. In the past few years, the company has committed significant capital to acquiring new facilities…
With a national ban for noncompetes effectively dead under the current FTC leadership, the battle is playing out state by state, hospital by hospital, and contract by contract. Marcelo Hochman, MD, a Charleston-based independent physician and former president of the…