DSOs face four compounding structural threats in 2026 that executives are actively repositioning around. First, practice supply is tightening: 69% of DSOs plan to increase acquisition activity this…
Healthcare staffing firm Cross Country Healthcare has agreed to be taken private by Knox Lane, a private equity firm with $3.5 billion in assets under management, in an…
AdventHealth CEO David Banks outlines a strategic shift from hospital-centric growth to a network model built around primary care and ambulatory access. The health system is investing in…
TUSK Practice Sales’ Q2 2026 Dental Market Report — based on a survey of DSO leaders and their PE sponsors — finds that 69% of DSOs expect to…
Hospital M&A hit a six-year high in Q1 2026 with 22 newly announced transactions carrying combined transacted revenue of $14.5 billion — the highest Kaufman Hall has recorded…
Healthcare brands that want to appear in AI-generated answers — ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews — need a distinct toolkit, not just traditional SEO software. Search Engine Land…
AI search has exposed a fundamental flaw in how most brands apply topical authority: publishing keyword-targeted content volume is not the same as building genuine market recognition. Search…
Healthcare marketers over-index on bottom-funnel patient acquisition, competing for a narrow slice of already-in-market demand. This Cardinal Digital Marketing podcast episode features Ben Dutter, Chief Strategy Officer at…
Specialty healthcare practices typically allocate 90% of paid media spend to high-intent, bottom-of-funnel searches — terms like “knee surgeon near me” or “carpal tunnel specialist” — where 10…
Every piece of content must pass 10 sequential gates before an AI system recommends it: Discovered, Selected, Crawled, Rendered, Indexed, Annotated, Recruited, Grounded, Displayed, Won. Search Engine Land’s…
