Has there been disruptive innovation in healthcare? Not that I can remember. But we have experienced disruptive forces. What are those forces?

September 6, 2022: Tom Kurtz, CAO at Memorial Healthcare joins Bill for the news. Improving the patient experience doesn't have to come at the cost of clinician well-being. According to two physicians at Harvard Medical School, there's a way to prioritize both. Patients have higher expectations than ever before. How can the industry focus more on the customer experience? The Joint Commission will introduce new standards on Jan 1 aimed at reducing healthcare disparities. How can we better detect and address differences in care among racial, ethnic and other historically marginalized groups? Fitch Ratings has revised its outlook for U.S. not-for-profit hospitals and health systems to "deteriorating" as these organizations continue to be hammered by labor issues, expenses, and "macro inflationary pressures."

Key Points:

• We start every meeting at Memorial Healthcare with Memorial Moments - often a positive piece of feedback that we've gotten where a provider or a clinician has gone above and beyond to improve the care of the patient.
• I think, in a lot of cases, it isn't about choice. It’s about driving the lowest cost solution.
• Analysts are expecting not-for-profit health systems to have a rocky rest of the year
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Stories:

• How to improve patient experience, clinician well-being concurrently - Beckers
• The future of healthcare ‘is about the consumer' - Chief Healthcare Executive
• Joint Commission tackles health equity with new accreditation standards - Healthcare Dive
• Fitch Ratings Slaps Not-For-Profit Hospitals with ‘Deteriorating’ Outlook - Health Leaders Media
• Memorial Healthcare opens NOW Building in Owosso

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Has there been disruptive innovation in healthcare? Not that I can remember. But we have experienced disruptive forces. What are those forces?

I was challenged on this topic by Michael Pfeffer, CIO for Stanford Health and I thought I would pass along his challenge.

Sachin Jain shares a cautionary tale for moving care to the home.

Another UGM is in the books. What did we learn?

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August 29, 2022: Ryan Witt, Industries Solutions and Strategy Leader at Proofpoint joins Bill for the news. IBM reports that cybersecurity attacks cost healthcare systems more than any other sector. At $10.1 million per breach, that’s a 42% increase from 2020. North Korean hackers are taking aim at health care with Maui ransomware. What do federal agencies know about these malicious attacks and what are the reasons behind them? The HIMSS 2022 Future of Healthcare Report shows that payers and providers look at Big Tech differently and half of physicians and nurses don’t think their orgs are headed in the right direction. And American Airlines announced that it’s buying 20 Overture aircraft from Boom, with the option to purchase an additional 40 planes if all goes well. That’s pretty amazing support for a startup that has yet to build a working passenger jet.

Key Points:

• Healthcare has always been the top of the stack in terms of being the highest amount of cost to recover from a breach
• We need to make investments in security awareness training
•  Healthcare is again, a little bit behind other industries in terms of that whole digital transformation journey
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Stories:

• Cybersecurity attacks cost healthcare systems more than any other sector, new report finds - Modern Healthcare
• FBI, CISA, Treasury: North Korean hackers taking aim at health care with Maui ransomware - Cyberscoop
• Payers and providers look at Big Tech differently, half of physicians and nurses don’t think their orgs are headed in the right direction - Health IT Today
• American Airlines is purchasing 20 of Boom's supersonic Overture jets - Engadget

Sign up for our webinar: Challenges and Solutions to Unmanaged Devices in Healthcare - Thursday September 8, 2022: 1pm ET / 10am PT. If we had to troubleshoot just a few devices every once in a while, our hospital systems would run as smooth as butter, right? But when missing devices, security issues and friction caused by interoperability hits, we can’t expect a smooth operation. Our webinar will

Today, a little talk about our mission and our progress. To Amplify Great Thinking to Propel Healthcare Forward. Onward.

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Is it time to go it alone with cyber insurance. Maybe not, but it is probably time to explore the question of viability of that approach.