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Governance before go-live: How Children’s Mercy readied its analytics for Epic

Many health systems invest heavily in analytics but still wrestle with fragmented reporting, unclear governance and inconsistent data standards. Those gaps grow more consequential the moment a major analytics or reporting build enters the picture. Children’s Mercy took a different…

Sep 10, 2026 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM CDT

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Brett Generaux, Senior Director Data Governance & Analytics, Children’s Mercy Hospital (Kansas City, Missouri)
Warren Teachout, Director of Decision Support, Medical Informatics, Children’s Mercy Hospital (Kansas City, Missouri)
Michael Sayer, Senior Director of Data Science, Children’s Mercy Hospital (Kansas City, Missouri)
Glenn David, Senior Director of Digital Health, Nordic
Anthonio Darling, Director Digital Health, Nordic

Detroit cancer hospital sues Tenet: 6 things to know

A Detroit cancer center has filed a lawsuit against Tenet Healthcare’s Detroit Medical Center and several of its affiliated hospitals, alleging DMC threatened to scale back or terminate services critical to Karmanos’ operations amid a long-running contract dispute — claims…

Patients aren’t comparing you to the hospital across town: What Patients Expect Now, and What Health Systems Must Do Next

Healthcare consumers no longer benchmark their experiences against other hospitals. They benchmark them against every digital experience they have — banking, retail, travel, entertainment — and they expect the same convenience, transparency, personalization and seamless communication from their care. Most…

Sep 21, 2026 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM CDT

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Veronique Au, MD, National Physician Director, Ambulatory Medicine Vituity
Michael Antoniades, President, Ingalls Memorial Hospital UChicago Medicine
Shereef Elnahal, M.D., M.B.A., President, Oregon Health & Science University
Hazelin H.L. Ngan, MHA, MA, CPXP, CPHQ, LSSBB, PMP, Chief Experience Officer, NYC Health + Hospitals/Kings County
Dwight W. McBee MBA, BSN, RN, CPXP, Senior Vice President & Chief Experience Officer, RWJ Barnabas Health

MIT-led team builds 665 tumor models spanning 25 cancer types

The Human Cancer Models Initiative has developed 665 new cancer tissue models derived from patient tumors. The models cover 25 cancer types and were generated from 2,780 donors over a 10-year, NCI-funded effort, according to a study published in Nature. …

AACR enrolls 1st patient in trial to avoid stomach cancer surgery

The American Association for Cancer Research Center for Cancer Clinical Trials enrolled its first patient in a phase 2 trial testing whether targeted drug regimens can let some stomach and esophageal cancer patients skip surgery. The trial, called AACR-ADOPT-GEA, is…

51 moves in US News' cancer hospital rankings

There were 51 changes to U.S. News and World Report’s 2026-2027 ranking of cancer hospitals compared with the 2025-2026 ranking. Eight cancer hospital rankings remained unchanged, 12 rankings moved up and 21 moved down. Nine organizations dropped off the list…

OhioHealth plans $10M cancer expansion

Columbus-based OhioHealth will invest $10.2 million to expand the Bradley Cancer Center at Berger Hospital in Circleville, Ohio. Renovation of the cancer center will occur over the next two years. Cancer services will remain available throughout construction, according to an…

WellSpan begins 'phased expansion' of cancer services

York, Pa.-based WellSpan Health is expanding cancer care services across Union, Snyder, Northumberland, Columbia and the surrounding counties. The “phased expansion” begins in September, when Joshua Van Allen, DO, will start seeing patients at WellSpan Medical Oncology & Hematology, a…

AI agents are changing the tradeoff between audit quality and scale

Payment integrity has long been constrained by audit capacity and review quality. When teams only audit what they’re staffed to handle and consistency varies widely across reviewers, it’s difficult to measure true hit rates or maintain quality at scale. AI…

Sep 21, 2026 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM CDT

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Shri Santhanam, Chief Product Officer, Machinify
Emma Nasif, Chief Legal Officer, Machinify
Vijay Bharadwaj, Chief AI Scientist, Machinify

The End of Chart Chase: How Payers Are Rethinking Risk Adjustment

CMS’s expanding RADV audit activity is changing the economics of risk adjustment. The question is no longer whether organizations can optimize retrospective chart chase. The question is whether their operating model can withstand continuous audit scrutiny at enterprise scale. Retrospective…

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