Forty-two Minnesota hospitals were recognized by the American Heart Association for improving care for patients with heart disease and stroke. The recognition came through AHA’s Get With The Guidelines. Nationwide, more than 3,000 hospitals take part in the program, and…
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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
Hartford (Conn.) HealthCare has opened a cardiac catheterization laboratory at Backus Hospital in Norwich, Conn. The upgraded cath lab will support multidisciplinary care teams and evolving procedural needs, according to an Aug. 11 news release from the health system. The…
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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Procedural areas run on speed, but point-of-care drug preparation introduces steps where errors, compliance gaps and waste accumulate. For pharmacy leaders, every manual preparation task in the operating room is a safety variable and a documentation burden. Pharmacy leadership from…
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- Matthew Gimbar, PharmD, Sr Associate Director, Pharmacy Operations, University of Illinois Hospital and Health Sciences System
- Zenia George, Perioperative Pharmacy Services Coordinator, University of Illinois Hospital and Health Sciences System
More than one-third of cardiologists have a family net worth of $5 million or more in 2026, and that share is growing, according to Medscape’s “Cardiologist Wealth & Debt Report 2026: Is the Rising Net Worth Tide Carrying Your Boat?” …
Health systems are navigating a rapidly changing landscape as innovative, high-cost therapies reshape care delivery and the economics of care. These shifts are creating new opportunities for health systems to move beyond their traditional role at the end of the…
Sep 10, 2026 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM CDT
Presenters:
- Tina Chaudhry, Associate Principal, ZS Associates
- Diane Reidy, MD, Joseph O. Moore Professor of Medicine with Tenure, Chief, Division of Medical Oncology, Physician Vice President, Cancer Services, Duke University Health System
- Todd Karpinski, PharmD, MS, FASHP, FACHE, Chief Pharmacy Officer & System Vice President, Assistant Dean – Health System Services, WVU Medicine
- Eric Huckins, PharmD, MBA, VP, Chief Growth Officer, Lumicera Health Services, SSM Health
- Denise Scarpelli, VP and Chief Pharmacy Officer, University of Chicago Medicine
Behavioral health conditions affect roughly 30% of patients, yet these patients remain among the costliest and most challenging to connect to appropriate care. Tufts Medicine launched a tech-enabled navigation program that identifies at-risk patients at key moments and connects them…
Sep 18, 2026 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM CDT
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- Jenny Chiang, MD, SVP Community Engagement and Market Growth, Tufts Medicine Integrated Network
- Nishi Rawat, MD, Chief Clinical Officer and GM Automated Transitions, Bamboo Health
Delaware had the highest stroke death rate at 62.6 while New York had the lowest at 23.7, the CDC found. The CDC calculated mortality rates from stroke in every state. Mortality rate is the number of deaths per 100,000 total…
New York City-based NYC Health + Hospitals/Lincoln will receive nearly $10 million in state investment to complete its cardiac catheterization lab. New York Governor Kathy Hochul and Congress Member Ritchie Torres announced the state investment Aug. 10. The funding will…