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The Guardian •

‘It can spare people so much pain’: what is an advance directive and should you get one?

My parents died three years and two ICU rooms apart. Both were still in their 60s. Neither had a finished will, much less an advance directive – a set of care instructions someone prepares in case they become incapacitated – that could have guided my sister and me. In our early 30s, shellshocked by brutal surprise, we made decisions that determined the course of their final hours.

Today, we trust that we honored their wishes, but doubt and distress linger.

Our experience, though devastating, is ha...
TIME •

How to Cope with Grief Attacks, According to a Psychologist

When Kelly Edmonson’s son died, she was on a cruise ship.

It was January 3, 2023, and Edmonson and her husband were ringing in the new year—their first as empty nesters—with a Caribbean vacation. She received a phone call telling her that her oldest son Darius, then 28 years old, had passed away suddenly in his sleep from an epileptic seizure.

In the middle of the ocean among strangers, Edmonson, a nurse executive, felt as if she was in “a parallel universe,” she says. “We were surrounded by peopl...
DentalPost •

2026 Dental Salary Survey Report

DentalPost’s 2026 Dental Industry Salary Report reveals a field on the rise — in happiness, in staying power — after years of pandemic-fueled setbacks.

Across roles and settings, compensation,
satisfaction, and retention are generally on the rise
this year. But progress is uneven. Dental assistants — by
far the lowest paid and likeliest to feel overlooked — are
sounding the alarm on the disparities holding them, and
the practices they anchor, back.
MarketingEDGE •

The Rise of the LinkedInfluencer

LinkedIn, a platform where B2B companies have historically shone, is cashing in on the creator economy with buzzy features and incentives to lure new influencers and companies — including those in consumer-facing markets.

“Folks on our platform who have the most credibility around topics that really matter to people are leaning into it, and that’s opening up the opportunity for us now to work with creators in a way that can help them not only drive reach, but build their business,” Matt Derella, vice president of LinkedIn marketing solutions, told Marketing Brew.

For their part, B2B leaders are taking notice and bulking budgets: As many as three in five have increased their influencer spend in recent years, accor...
MarketingEDGE •

Meet the new personal ad: AI-driven personalization in B2B marketing

From intent data platforms that signal a shopper’s precise moment of need to automatically generated assets that adapt to their behavior in real-time, hyper-personalized, AI-powered content experiences are reshaping how marketers engage buyers. Some of the most promising — and polarizing — use cases are emerging in the B2B universe.

Often, “the stakes are higher because the cost is higher,” says David Edelman, executive advisor on digital and marketing transformations, Harvard Business School se...
MarketingEDGE •

MarketingEDGE newsletter: The 95% you’re ignoring

If you're responsible for your company's account based marketing (ABM) strategy, you're feeling the squeeze of tighter budgets, tougher attribution, and the relentless drumbeat to do more with less.

In Part 1 of a two-part series on ABM, Delaney Rebernik makes the case that an overly narrow ideal customer profile (ICP) can actually "optimize" you right out of your next biggest buyers. Learn how to keep ABM focused without turning it into an in-market-only trap.

Also, if your marketing team is...
MarketingEDGE •

ABM Misfires, Part 1: Your ICP is Too Narrow, and it's Shrinking Your Pipeline

By the time they land in market, today’s prospects have likely already decided on their vendor “because it’s a very buyer-led journey — even more so [with] AI,” Shumate says. To capture demand for the minority of accounts poised to purchase in your category, you must generate demand for everyone else, she explains. “I’m a firm believer in the 95-5 rule, where only 5% of your market is in-market, and then 95% are in different stages of the funnel.”  
In other words, a shrewd demand generation str...
MarketingEDGE •

Making Zero-Click Search Click: 12 Micro-Experiments for the Early Days of Generative Engine Optimization

AI-powered search is reshaping the B2B buyer journey — and marketers are struggling to keep pace.

“Click-through rates have plummeted in the year since Google introduced AI-generated summaries,” wrote Bain & Company consultants in a March analysis. Though the trend is most visible in B2C spaces, where four in five consumers rely on “zero-click” results at least 40% of the time, B2B clickthrough rates are falling by as much as 30% in categories like software, according to the firm’s research.
ExecutiveEDGE •

Don’t Let AI Workslop Clog Up the Pipes

For many workers, AI can amount to little more than smoke and mirrors.

According to recent research from Stanford University and BetterUp Labs, 40% of full-time U.S.-based desk workers had received “AI workslop” within a month of being surveyed.

Generated by an algorithm, slop deliverables — such as “slick slides, lengthy reports, overly tightened summaries, or code without context” — create the illusion of progress but deliver no real value and lots of (costly) confusion.
TIME •

Why Horror Movies and Scaring Yourself Can Make You Feel Less Anxious

I grew up scared of everything: death, the dark, my own face in the bathroom mirror.

Eventually, I learned my bottomless fear belied several anxiety and anxiety-adjacent disorders that I’ve been addressing in adulthood with the help of therapy, medication, and an unlikely third salve: ravenous horror-film consumption.

Contagion got me through the first night of lockdown in 2020, and Daddy’s Head helped me unleash pent-up tears around the anniversary of my dad’s death. I felt my own unspeakable rag...
Design Observer •

The Design of Horror | The Horror of Design: a series

As a dark coper, I’ve long used horror to make sense of life’s trials and better understand the world around me.

Boy, am I leaning on the genre a lot this year.

Payton McCarty-Simas, too. “When I’m sad, I’ll watch Audition,” the film critic and scholar of cinematic American witches told me in a recent conversation, referring to the 1999 Japanese horror film notorious for its shocking final sequence. “But...
Design Observer •

Mirror, mirror: The rise of ‘beauty horror’ amid today’s antifeminist backlash - DesignObserver

With knockouts like “The Substance” and this year’s “The Ugly Stepsister,” the growing, woman-helmed subgenre stands 10 toes (give or take) down on its critiques of gender norms.

INT. GRAND VICTORIAN-ERA HOME – BEDROOM – NIGHT
Elvira scans the lavish bedroom until her eyes, wide and rimmed with sparse, tear-slicked lashes, land on an ottoman. She drags it toward the edge of the four-poster bed and places a bare foot on it. With a log from the gently crackling fire in one hand, and a cleaver in th...
The Observatory •

A story of bad experiential design - DesignObserver

We may be in an era of bad experiential design.

Consider “Willy’s Chocolate Experience” in Glasgow, Scotland, early last year. For £35 a ticket, attendees were promised a “full immersive experience” of Willy Wonka-themed “imagination and wonder” — and treated to a two-minute tour through a sparsely appointed warehouse. 

Unable to make sense of a script rife with “AI-generated gibberish,” actors playing canonical (and horrifyingly original) characters from the world of Willy Wonka vamped, trying t...
The Observatory •

Your (A)ttent(I)on, please

My attention feels splintered into a million pieces most days. And yet, when Mexican investigative journalist Chantal Flores’ pitch came across my desk, I was suddenly imbued with a single-mindedness I haven’t known since I created my (now-defunct) Facebook account in 2008. 

The resulting story, today’s Big Think, centers an arresting question: Can we tolerate the use of genAI to improve human rights, even as it threatens livelihoods and lives at scale? How would that even work? 

“Ghiblified” art, of all things, may offer some clues.
BrainWise Media •

The Links Between Trauma and Grief

When you go through something difficult, it can feel like your brain is swept up in a gale of emotion. These experiences of stress, trauma and grief are often intense and distressing, but they exist along a continuum: Your responses might be healthy, natural reactions to help you adapt. But some people may experience more severe or persistent responses that can lead to conditions such as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) or prolonged grief disorder (sometimes referred to as PGD).
Design Observer •

Head in the boughs: ‘Designed Forests’ author Dan Handel on the interspecies influences that shape our thickety relationship with nature

Forests have always borne our mark, carved as indelibly as initials on a tree trunk.

From the Indians and European colonizers who scaled forest planning in the 1800s to the artist–tech bro trio who prototyped a blockchain-enabled, self-managing woodland in the 2010s, architect and curator Dan Handel’s Designed Forests (2024, Routledge) traces the characters and cultural histories of “forest thinking,” a term he c...
HealthLeaders Media •

The Rise of the Interim Revenue Cycle Leader

As health systems face razor-thin margins, executive upheaval, and sky-high expectations, some are calling on a burgeoning type of leader to helm the revenue cycle: the fleet-footed interim exec.

"The demand for interim revenue cycle executives is poised to grow significantly in 2025," wrote WittKieffer consultant Robert Springall in a recent LinkedIn post. "As healthcare systems navigate constant changes and challenges, interim revenue cycle leaders are essential in ensuring smooth operations an...
HealthLeaders Media •

RCM Solutions Are on The Rise. Here's What It Means For Rev Cycle Leaders

RCM technology is booming.

The vendor market could reach anywhere from $343B to nearly $900B globally within the next decade, according to new projections from Straits Research and Coherent Market Insights. The outsourcing portion alone could achieve $170B by 2032, says HTF Market Intelligence (MI), which values it today at $90B globally."

This market is expanding due to the increasing complexity of healthcare billing, a focus on reducing operational costs, and improving cash flow through speciali...
HealthLeaders Media •

Payer-Provider Software: 5 Strategies for Smooth Sailing

For many revenue cycle leaders, 2025 is all about the tech.

Time and again, execs have said they're investing big in AI and advanced analytics to improve team efficiency, payer relations, and patient access. But all too often, shiny new tools that promise to help are doing more harm than good.

"If you've been in the industry long enough, [you've seen] criteria sets in the market that have a tendency to create friction," says Debbie Schardt, DSL, MBA-HCA, RN, assistant vice president of revenue cycl...
HealthLeaders Media •

From Stability to Strategy: Rev Cycle Leaders Gear for Growth in 2025

After years of margin pressure, workforce strife, and pandemic recovery, things are looking up for revenue cycle leaders, according to two new trend reports.

"2025 could mark a turnaround period for the health care sector, driven by innovation, resilience, and strategic growth," write the researchers of Deloitte's 2025 US Health Care Outlook for large systems and plans.

Of the 80 C-suite executives the firm surveyed, 59% are optimistic about their prospects in 2025, up from 52% just a year ago...
DentalPost •

2025 Dental Salary Survey Report

Flexibility, freedom, and autonomy came up repeatedly as wins among dentists of all stripes, with circumstances like private-practice ownership and 4-day work weeks enabling control over clinical and administrative decisions, as well as work-life balance.

Many said their people — both patients and colleagues — are the best part of the job. They derive great meaning from using deft hands and hard-won skills to perform complex and varied procedures, help newer professionals progress in their careers, and restore smiles throughout their communities.
HealthLeaders Media •

Let's Get Digital: How 2 RCM Leaders Are Tapping Tech to Improve Patient Access

RCM leaders are losing patience with barriers to patient access. 

When it comes to complex, expensive procedures, "medical necessity from a payer perspective is not always in alignment with what the physician necessarily says," says Shana Tate, chief revenue officer at Ballad Health, a 20-hospital system serving four states in the Appalachian Highlands (Tennessee, Virginia, North Carolina, and Kentucky).

It "creates a lot of angst" for everyone involved. Often, "the patient really doesn't know...
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