Mental health leave is on the rise, Bloomberg reported July 8. Workforce mental health is especially relevant in healthcare, which faces rates of workplace violence far above the national average across industries. Healthcare and social assistance has an incidence rate of…
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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
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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MaineHealth Behavioral Health in Westbrook launched a new advanced practice provider psychiatric mental health fellowship to prepare graduated psychiatric nurse practitioners and physician associates for practice. The 12-month program begins Sept. 30, according to a July 6 news release from…
California shifted all 58 counties to the Behavioral Health Services Act in July 2026, completing the transition approved by voters through Proposition 1 in 2024. The law replaced the Mental Health Services Act with a new behavioral health framework focused…
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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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
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease is the sixth leading cause of death in the U.S.¹ and one of the most common drivers of hospital readmission. One in five hospitalizations for COPD results in a return visit² — and for patients with…
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