That colorful bull reminds me when Cerner had a few of these made and mooved them around KC. it was…
News 8/4/23
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HIMSS announces that it has sold the exhibit portion of its Global Health Conference & Exhibition to London-based B2B events and publishing company Informa. HIMSS will continue to manage the educational aspects of the annual conference. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.
The organizations say that the 2024 conference in Orlando will offer improved digital features, enhanced registration, and better marketing and product discovery tools. Informa’s conference approach is to connect buyers to sellers in specialist markets. Informa said in a joint interview that it will not change the name of the conference.
The conference will be managed by Informa’s South Florida Ventures, which runs Florida luxury lifestyle shows in art, beauty, boating, and yachting. The organizations did not say how that oversight might affect the HIMSS 2025 and 2026 conferences, which are set for Las Vegas, or if the conference’s Orlando and Las Vegas rotation will change.
HIMSS President and CEO Hal Wolf said that HIMSS had been looking for a partner to take over the logistics of running the conference for about a year, allowing HIMSS to focus on membership activities and programming. It will continue to run its media operation, certification programs, and several smaller conferences. Wolf says 30 HIMSS employees will move to Informa.
HIMSS announced the news to members Wednesday in an email from Wolf, who framed the deal as a “landmark partnership” without mentioning the word “acquisition” as Informa did in its financial report last week. He assured members that they will continue to receive Global Conference registration discounts, noted the “unparalleled thought leadership” of HIMSS, and referred to the conference as “the esteemed industry-leading event that members, attendees, exhibitors, and sponsors know and love.”
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Reed Jobs, the 31-year-old son of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, launches a venture capital firm that will focus on cancer treatments. The firm, named Yosemite, has raised $200 million from investors that include Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. It will run a for-profit business, but will also operate a foundation that will provide grants to scientists. Jobs majored in pre-med at Stanford, but ended up earning bachelor’s and master’s degrees in history after his father died in 2011.
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- WVU Medicine chooses QGenda Provider Cloud for physician and nurse scheduling, time tracking, and compensation management across its 23 hospitals.
- Imprivata and its regional partner will provide Ireland’s Health Service Executive with Imprivata’s OneSign enterprise access management solution.
- The Richmond Behavioral Health Authority chooses Netsmart CareFabric and MyAvatar for its services and treatment programs.
Government and Politics
New SEC rules will require publicly traded companies to disclose material cybersecurity incidents within four business days.
Other
Former FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, MD says in a CNBC op-ed piece that it won’t be long before autonomous AI systems will diagnosis and treat patients without physician involvement, assuming that federal regulators approve such use. He adds that AI can’t reduce healthcare costs unless it replaces doctors since in healthcare since “the labor itself is the product.”
In Thailand, a hospital that turned away patients when its hospital information system crashed blames a hospital employee for sabotaging the system to convince the hospital to buy backup software. Meanwhile, several procurement employees at three hospitals in Taiwan are fired and indicted for accepting a computer supplier’s bribes of cash, cell phones, and “drinks with female escorts” to win business.
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- Ellkay will host its virtual user group meeting August 8-10.
- Get Well will integrate Care.ai’s Smart Care Facility Platform with its in-room interactive TV solution.
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I did not see the full Scott G. piece, so he may have addressed these issues but reading that snippet there is so much to discuss. What happened to the concept of increasing quality and preventing illness will decrease cost? Few try to prevent illness, except when paid to do so. “Quality” seems more defensive and profit driven than quality for the patient. Quality took thousands of clinicians from the bedside to the desk chasing numbers that truly do not equal quality at all. Healthcare is extremely pharma driven, not food and lifestyle driven. People are not expected to be responsible – they expect to spend years killing themselves only for no limit to be spent on efforts to save them from themselves.
Funny that the same people who came up with firing or forcing vaccinations on all healthcare workers, showing no care for the providers who served so valiantly during COVID are now saying to solve our lack of resources (as if it could not have been prevented), let’s just replace the “labor” with AI? The “labor” are not flipping burgers, they have sacrificed years of their lives to become skilled at caring, diagnosing, and treating people in need. It is an art and a science, the gut instinct and refined assessment skills honed with years of experience is often what saves the patient or delivers the correct diagnosis.
I remember protocols being called “cookbook medicine” that could not work, people are not black and white for simple decision trees, now let’s just have ChatGPT replace the doctors. How about we look at removing profit and multi-million dollar CEO salaries, use the insurance premiums to pay for care not layers of bureaucracy and installing multiple bathroom options for payer employees? Bring care back, put patients and providers first, remove anything between the doctor and the patient. We are headed in the wrong direction, resulting in providers leaving, telemedicine providers and boutique practices popping up all over the place, none taking insurance, most are not affordable expecting monthly payments, but the provider can spend 30 minutes with you instead of 5. So there will be care for the haves, experienced providers who spend time with you and care for the have nots where AI replaces “the labor”.
This doesn’t even address the issue of how AI can be manipulated to only recommend the least expensive action not necessarily the one with the best patient outcomes or worse. Then who is accountable for this, who is responsible when there is a bad outcome and ChatGPT or other AI algorithm failed to evaluate some aspect of the unique patient? There are no profit driven quick fixes to our healthcare challenges. I would love to see an analysis of what each healthcare dollar goes towards – I bet we don’t need to spend more, we need to eliminate waste and change our focus. We can do better using our brains, our hearts, and well-designed AI to assist, not replace, starting with a look at where our healthcare dollars are ineffectively used, where are priorities are backwards.