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Healthcare security teams already collect signals from across their systems. The challenge is connecting thousands of alerts quickly enough to act. That urgency is growing. The average healthcare data breach costs $7.42 million, according to IBM, while attackers are using…

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America’s aging population is changing what health systems are asked to deliver, and the pressure is landing hardest on the specialties responsible for chronic disease, complex conditions, procedural care and preventive health. Cardiology, vascular care, oncology, gastroenterology, radiology, anesthesiology, primary…

Nov 12, 2026 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM CST

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  • Andrea Leland, MBA, CPRP, System Vice President, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center and Clinics
  • Garth Weidmann, Division Vice President, AMN Healthcare
  • Teague Morton, Vice President, Permanent Placement, AMN Healthcare

Sepsis asks emergency departments to do two things at once: find the high-risk patients quickly, and avoid spending treatment and resources on the patients who don’t need them. Every unnecessary workup occupies a bed, a nurse and a budget line…

Oct 27, 2026 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM CDT

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  • Chadd Kraus, DO, DrPH, CPE, FACEP, Emergency Physician and Vice Chair, Research, Department of Emergency and Hospital Medicine, Lehigh Valley Health Network
  • Nancy Jacobson, MD, Associate Professor; System Director, Quality, Safety, and Experience ; Medical Director, Emergency Medicine; Patient Safety and Quality Officer, Emergency Medicine
  • Jamie Aranda, MD, Associate Professor; Medical Director, Froedtert Hospital Emergency Department; System Director, Advanced Practice Providers
  • Tonya Jagneaux, MD, MSHI, MSA, Chief Quality Officer, Louisiana Quality Network; Chief Medical Analytics Officer, Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady Health System
  • Dhruvangkumar A. Modi, MD, MPH, Medical Director, ICU, Texas Health Denton; Regional Medical Director, Exceed Healthcare

Today’s CIOs are faced with countless opportunities to invest in AI, but with little more than promises that any project will result in measurable ROI. If we believe AI can transform operations across the hospital, what’s the right decision framework?…

Nov 10, 2026 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM CST
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  • Scott Arnold, Chief Information Officer and EVP, Tampa General Hospital
  • Roberta Schwartz, PhD, Chief Innovation Officer and EVP, Houston Methodist
  • J.D. Whitlock, Chief Information Officer, Dayton Children’s Hospital

Correspondence arrives in your revenue cycle continuously. Remittance advice, Explanation of Benefits (EOB) forms, payer denial letters, refund requests, and patient payments come by mail, by fax, and in a single prepared file from your bank. Your team opens each…

Oct 22, 2026 1:00 PM – 1:40 PM CDT

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  • Meg Mehlberg, Managing Director of Healthcare, Naviant
  • Jon Knisley, Director of AI Value Management, ABBYY

As insurers pivot their market and product strategies, executive leadership has been evolving at health plans and their parent companies.  Here are 17 health plan leadership moves to know from the second half of 2026:

Healthcare organizations are facing a period of heightened leadership vulnerability. CEO transitions are accelerating, executive roles are growing more complex and many organizations remain underprepared for succession. Research from the American College of Healthcare Executives found that only 21% of…

Oct 29, 2026 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM CDT

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  • Mick Ruel, Principal, Executive Search, AMN Heathcare

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