New York City-based Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai named Samin Sharma, MD, chief of clinical cardiology. Dr. Sharma will oversee the strategic direction and daily clinical operations of the cardiology division, according to a July 8 system Facebook…
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Health system pharmacy leaders invest heavily in training their teams. What that investment rarely reveals is whether those teams are ready to perform when a situation demands more than process knowledge. Traditional models were built to move people through a…
Aug 10, 2026 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM CDT
Presenters:
- Michael Alexander, Co-Founder, Audirie
- Dr. Tina Moen, PharmD, Chief Pharmacy Officer, TRC Healthcare
Most practice leaders believe denials are under control. New data tells a different story. In a survey of 360 independent practices, only 1 in 4 could pinpoint where revenue was leaking, and denials were climbing for nearly half. The reason…
Aug 13, 2026 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM CDT
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- Ian Maurer, VP, Veradigm
- Jana Fullbright, Director of Revenue Cycle, State of Franklin Healthcare
- Joseph Jacot, CEO, Michigan Vascular Center
Los Angeles-based Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai named Michael Shehata, MD, director of the division of cardiac electrophysiology. As division director, Dr. Shehata, a cardiac electrophysiologist, will oversee the program and its fellowships, according to a July 2 system news…
At University Health in Kansas City, Cone Health, St. Luke’s Health System and Akron Children’s Hospital, decentralized specialty pharmacy was creating the same problems: medication access was slow, care was delayed, and prescriptions and patients were leaking out of the system…
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NYC Health + Hospitals/Elmhurst (N.Y.) named Robin Ulep, MD, co-director of the Stroke Center and vice chair of neurology. Dr. Ulep, a vascular neurologist, will lead clinical care, quality improvement, education and program development for the hospital’s stroke services, with…
Picture the payer workflows that consume the most time: prior authorization, coverage determination, payer-to-payer exchange, denial appeals. Long-running, multi-party, regulated. Now picture autonomous agents handling that work, reliably and under full audit, across payer and provider systems. Almost no one…
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Electrophysiology is the fastest-growing subspecialty across the nation, hospital leaders told Becker’s, thanks to a number of factors that are changing the field. Electrophysiology is a unique specialty within cardiology due to how many areas of patient care it addresses.…
Healthcare and life sciences organizations are moving quickly to develop AI applications for diagnostics, genomics and digital health. But many teams face practical challenges as projects scale, including limited access to compute resources, cloud latency and data privacy requirements that…
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Nursing shortages, bedside turnover and rising labor costs are forcing health systems to do more with less. Labor now accounts for nearly 60 percent of the average hospital’s expenses and replacing a staff nurse costs roughly $60,000. Every hour clinicians…
Aug 7, 2026 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM CDT
Presenters:
- Kassaundra McKnight-Young, CNIO Healthcare Industry Principal, Zebra Technologies
- Gregory Carras, Regional Product Manager, Data Capture Solutions, Zebra Technologies
- Jennifer Gene, VP, Healthcare and Public Sector Sales, Levata