Monday Morning Update 4/17/23

Top News

Arcadia raises $125 million in financing to accelerate its work in aggregating and analyzing healthcare data.  

HIStalk Announcements and Requests

Poll respondents, whether attending HIMSS23 or not, expect to be working harder this week.

I expect to be working harder this week because I will be unexpectedly lugging some kind of coat around airports thanks to HIMSS choosing to stay home in Chicago (Monday: gale warning, snow, high of 39) in abandoning the usual rotation of Las Vegas (sunny and 81) or Orlando (sunny and 82). The conference is in Orlando next year, then two consecutive years in Las Vegas afterward. Some conference folks put Las Vegas, Orlando, and Chicago as within the top five US conference locations, with former HIMSS cities San Diego (sunny and 64) and Atlanta (sunny and 70) rounding out the list.

New poll to your right or here: Are you using ChatGPT or other AI tools at least daily for work-related tasks?

Ramadan and its month of fasting will end Thursday evening as HIMSS23 is winding down. Muslims aren’t allowed to take anything by mouth – food, water, or medicine – from dawn to sunset, so they usually have a significant pre-dawn breakfast (with lots of water since none is allowed for the following 13 hours) and late-evening meal. It must be challenging to travel to a conference during Ramadan in accommodating prayer times and finding halal food, but at least attendees will be home for Eid al-Fitr.

Webinars

None scheduled soon. Previous webinars are on our YouTube channel. Contact Lorre to present or promote your own.

Acquisitions, Funding, Business, and Stock

Wisconsin’s Froedtert and ThedaCare will merge by the end of 2023 to create an 18-hospital system with $4 billion in revenue.

Tenet reports that EVP/CIO Paola Arbour’s total compensation in 2022 was $1.7 million, a big drop from the $2.9 million she was paid in 2021.

Sales

• Alaska’s Department of Health awards a new contract to HealthConnect Alaska, the state HIE, to expand its services.

People

Taylor Bockweg (MuleSoft) joins CarePayment as VP of national accounts.

Announcements and Implementations

Amazon announces new tools for building with generative AI on AWS. Amazon Bedrock offers foundation models from Amazon and other companies that address use cases such as text generation, chatbots, search, text summarization, image generation, and personalization.

Other

Industry long-timer Stuart Miller (Craneware) has had his HIMSS23 plans waylaid by an emergency double lung transplant two weeks ago. HIs daughter, Bethany Miller-Urroz (Rhapsody), invites everyone to visit Rhapsody’s Booth 7110 at 4:30 p.m. on Wednesday to send their encouragement via a group photo.

Also missing a planned trip to HIMSS23 will be Chilmark Research founder and CEO John Moore, who wrote his moving “Bidding Adieu” from hospice care. 

Sponsor Updates

• Netsmart will exhibit at NATCon23 May 1-3 in Los Angeles.
• Cone Health exceeds quality goals for its sepsis initiative using Premier’s Pinc AI quality enterprise.
• Redox releases a new podcast, “Navigating rapid cardiology practice acquisition with US Heart and Vascular’s Cheryl Rodenfels.”
• Sectra publishes a new case study, “Digital pathology transforms collaboration among pathologists in Greater Manchester.”

Blog Posts

• Doctor, do you mind the interruption? (Nordic)
• This Mission is Possible: Achieving Better Data in Healthcare (ReMedi Health Solutions)
• Unlock the Potential of Your Answering Service: Realizing Enterprise Value (PerfectServe)
• Breaking Down Silos: 4 Ways Premier is Working to Build a Unified Continuum of Care (Premier)
• Conversational AI: What is it and how is it transforming in 2023? (Talkdesk)
• PHE Expiration Implications for PTs, OTs, and SLPs (WebPT)

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