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February 29, 2016 News 2 Comments

I shouldn’t really title this post “From HIMSS” since I’ve done nothing conference-related today and have no plans to. Finally I’ve cracked the code that has eluded me so long on how to enjoy HIMSS – stay away from the fray as much as possible.

I mentioned that I rented a large, luxurious house for $200 per day and filled it with family and friends (all female) helping out with HIStalkapalooza tonight. Two of them are in their 20s and another is in her teens, so they’ve had a blast hanging out in the pool and hot tub, playing music and giggling. They weren’t impressed with the Strip, so last night we took them to the real Las Vegas – downtown around Fremont Street.

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I can’t remember the last time I had so much fun. I chose for us the old-school $9.99 prime rib dinner at the California Hotel, which was just fine and even included a great salad bar. One of the girls decided to treat us to a bottle of wine and the barely English-speaking cocktail waitress brought back an alarming 1.5 liter bottle of Cabernet (equivalent to two normal bottles). I tactfully offered to pay since I was afraid it might be an unexpected $120 budget-buster for our young friend, but it was actually only $38.

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Then we spent a couple of hours at the Fremont Street Experience enjoying the cover bands on stage (one Beatles, one rock), watching the zip line riders flying overhead, and drinking beer in the street. The girls had a ball posing for pictures with street performers. The neon alone is worth the trip. The top-rated Las Vegas restaurant on Tripadvisor is Andiamo Steakhouse in the the D hotel and Hugo’s Cellar in the Four Queens isn’t far behind – both are in that area. The Strip is like a sterile mall whose every feature is designed to extract cash elegantly from wallets, while downtown is a formerly decrepit but now quirky business district that has roared back to life.

Tonight the girls get to dress up in their Rent the Runway dresses and help out with HIStalkapalooza. They have been excited for days.

This morning everybody except me headed over to the convention center to pass out the booth signs I had made for sponsors who wanted to display them. Then they’ll head over to House of Blues to make sure they are ready for tonight’s HIStalkapalooza. I ate leftover pizza for breakfast and hit the hot tub. I just noticed that my cheap Timex watch didn’t recognize that it’s Leap Day, so I almost dated this post as 3/1/16.

I’ll catch up on a few news item to lighten my load tomorrow since I’ll be tired after being out late tonight.

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Divurgent hires Bert Reese (Sentara) as VP of portfolio management and innovation.

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Epic signs an agreement to give its users access to Tableau Software-powered analytics dashboards and workbooks.

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Healthwise integrates its patient education content and tools with Salesforce Health Cloud.

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UPMC takes a majority position in MedCPU, will lead a new $35 million funding round, and will become a MedCPU customer. 

EClinicalWorks will implement inpatient software systems in up to 300 hospitals in India. I didn’t realize that its main business there is inpatient software, which might explain the company’s recently announced plans to develop inpatient software for the US market.

Health Catalyst raises another $70 million in a Series E funding round co-led by Norwest Venture Partners and UPMC, increasing its total to $222 million.



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Currently there are "2 comments" on this Article:

  1. Mentioning the fact you’re staying in a large house with all females once is a fun odd fact. Mentioning it again the day after you first mentioned it? Now you’re being a creeper. Appreciate the rest of the info you have to offer but could very much do without this.

    [From Mr H] They’re all relatives except one who’s a friend of a relative. Not everybody reads every post, and mentioning their trip to Rent the Runway and posing with street performers without explaining to those who missed yesterday’s post that they’re female would have seemed strange. There’s nothing creepy about having female relatives since I’m pretty sure we all had mothers.







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