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News 11/26/25
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New Zealand’s health minister announces a 10-year investment plan to convert the 65% of hospitals that use paper records to digital systems.
The plan calls for a single national digital medical records system, remote patient monitoring, a national radiology system, and stronger cybersecurity.
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From GoBeyond: “Re: HIMSS. Please investigate whether HIMSS was technically insolvent when it sold the global conference to Informa. Also, who does it count as a ‘member’ in announcing a big increase?” On the latter issue, only HIMSS can answer how it counted its announced 75% membership increase over the past eight years. I wonder about HIMSS organizational affiliate memberships, the all-you-can-eat plan where an organization pays one price for unlimited individual members. For example, health systems can sign up unlimited individual members for a total annual cost of just $5,000. On the first issue, a non-profit’s financial health can be ascertained only from its 990 tax forms or audited financials and I haven’t seen those. Here’s some background:
- A 501(c)(6) trade association like HIMSS is required to file a Form 990 every year, although IRS backlogs (which IRS has confirmed) can affect the visibility of those filings.
- IRS records show no timely HIMSS Form 990 filings for fiscal years 2022, 2023, and 2024. HIMSS has also not provided recent returns upon my multiple requests as required by federal disclosure rules.
- The organization’s fiscal year change to a December year-end for 2021 explains a one-time shift in timing, but not a multi-year absence of posted filings.
- HIMSS announced a global headquarters in the Netherlands in 2023 and sold its conference operations to Informa in the same year. The global headquarters change does not relieve HIMSS of the obligation to file 990s for its US operation.
- I don’t know who HIMSS uses as an external auditor in the absence of 990 filings. HIMSS CFO Annemarie Tuzik left the organization in October 2025 after two years and an interim is in place. She was hired at the same time as its general counsel, who left after just over one year and does not appear to have been replaced.
- Without 990s or audited financials, an organization’s financial health can be assessed only through observable behaviors such as persistent late filings, refusing to provide disclosure, downsizings, executive or board turnover, selling core revenue-generating assets, a reduction in membership or sponsorship levels, office relocations, program cancellations, and major operational shifts.
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Subject-verb agreement matters, at least to me. Removing those first three words fixes the problem and shortens the headline as a bonus.
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Canada’s competition bureau is investigating Well Health Technologies over concerns that its recent acquisitions, including Healwell AI and Orion Health Holdings, are reducing competition in the AI transcription market. The former yoga studio operator now operates 227 medical clinics and has announced plans to take its software subsidiary Wellstar public next year.
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Subject-verb agreement matters to me too! “That” instead of “who” drives me nuts too but Google says it’s OK now. Stupid Google. Have a Happy Thanksgiving!
Hey, Jim. I also notice the use of “that” (“He was the CEO that approved the job cuts”) versus the correct “who.” I change that all the time in submitted articles, along with sentences that begin with “there,” which are usually a pain to rewrite.
The argument continues of whether dictionaries should be prescriptive (do it this way or you’re wrong) versus descriptive (everybody writes “it’s” as a possessive, so we will declare that to be OK). Grammar is not the long suit of many people, and texting has made it worse. Respect your readers, I say! Also true of low-quality news sites (which is most of them) that let AI churn out poorly written copy that contains obvious errors and just post it directly to avoid paying humans. Happy Thanksgiving to you.
Ex-copy editor* here, thankful for your feedback, encouraging writers to make less mistakes…
Happy Thanksgiving!
*There is no such thing as an ex-copy editor.
I bet you are testing me by by using “less” instead of “fewer.”
Next up: “I feel badly.”
I was going to drop a “that’s what she said,” but it seemed inappropriate.
While HIMSS’ failure to file a 990 is suspect at the least, there are a LOT of “non-profits” that obfuscate their 990s. I have look extensively at UPMC’s 990 and it does a semi-honest job of reporting all its organization on one form. Try doing that for Advocate-Atrium, Ascension, Commonspirit, Providence et al. Their 990s and many more are hidden or divided up amongst many organizations. What’s really going on there, and what their executives are really getting paid is very hard to figure out and no regulating body seems to care