Today in health, it we're going to do a conference recap.
Bill Russell:We've been doing conference shows for the last couple of weeks.
Bill Russell:And today I'm going to give you a recap of.
Bill Russell:Some of the things that I'm thinking, some of the things that I think
Bill Russell:were key to that, I'm also going to give you a little update of what
Bill Russell:we're going to be doing next year.
Bill Russell:My name is bill Russell.
Bill Russell:I'm a former CIO for a 16 hospital system and create, or this week in health, it.
Bill Russell:I channeled dedicated to keeping health it staff current and engaged.
Bill Russell:All right before we begin a couple of things.
Bill Russell:One.
Bill Russell:I wouldn't be doing no shows next week.
Bill Russell:So the week of Thanksgiving, I'm not going to be doing any shows
Bill Russell:and I'm going to be taking a pretty long production break in December.
Bill Russell:So I will be doing.
Bill Russell:Shows through the end of this week.
Bill Russell:I'll probably be doing shows the first week of December, and then we'll be
Bill Russell:taking off through the end of the year before we take off again on January.
Bill Russell:I think it's third is the Monday this year and we will start up again.
Bill Russell:We've done about 200 and.
Bill Russell:I don't know, 240 of these shows.
Bill Russell:We've only taken off for holidays and one day, which I was in the hospital.
Bill Russell:So this is a lot of fun to do this show.
Bill Russell:But it's also a lot of work to get up every morning at five 30 and record these.
Bill Russell:So I wouldn't be taking about a three-week break at the end of December.
Bill Russell:From this show, but not from the.
Bill Russell:This week show or the news day show, you're going to still be hearing episodes
Bill Russell:of that through the end of the year.
Bill Russell:All right before we begin, I wanted to share an exciting
Bill Russell:announcement for this week in health.
Bill Russell:It starting in 2022.
Bill Russell:We're going to be launching two new podcast channels to bring our
Bill Russell:community more specialized content.
Bill Russell:And it's content that's very specific to your needs.
Bill Russell:Our channel will now include our news channel, which is this channel
Bill Russell:that you're listening to, but we're also going to take the news day
Bill Russell:show and drop it into this channel.
Bill Russell:We're going to have a new channel called community.
Bill Russell:A channel called academy.
Bill Russell:And a channel called conference.
Bill Russell:Let me give you an idea of what that's gonna look like.
Bill Russell:We will have four different channels on iTunes and Google play and the rest
Bill Russell:that you can subscribe to and each one will have a specific feel to it.
Bill Russell:The news channel obviously is this one, and it's about staying
Bill Russell:up to date on what's going on.
Bill Russell:It'll include these shows where I talk about a specific news story.
Bill Russell:It will also include the news day show.
Bill Russell:Where we have about an hour.
Bill Russell:Where I have other people on the show and we talk about what's going on to the news.
Bill Russell:So you get different perspectives on the news.
Bill Russell:The community channel is something I'm really excited about.
Bill Russell:We have invited guest hosts to come on and record with people from their network.
Bill Russell:And our hope there is to get deeper into the topics that are top of mind for you.
Bill Russell:Security, clinical informatics data, AI digital, you name it.
Bill Russell:But it's not only going to be me.
Bill Russell:It's primarily going to be guests hosts and we've already started
Bill Russell:those invitations and we have a couple of people lined up.
Bill Russell:If you think you would be good for that, please let me know
Bill Russell:bill@thisweekathealthit.com.
Bill Russell:All right.
Bill Russell:So that's the community channel and we are looking forward to that.
Bill Russell:That's gonna be fun.
Bill Russell:The academy channel.
Bill Russell:This is really what we consider to be it university.
Bill Russell:This is where you have somebody coming on board and you want to
Bill Russell:ramp them up as quickly as possible.
Bill Russell:We are going to take excerpts from our show over the last five years.
Bill Russell:The highlights and we are going to put out three shows a week
Bill Russell:in what we call the insights.
Bill Russell:Show within the academy channel.
Bill Russell:There will be other shows within that education sphere, the academy sphere.
Bill Russell:But we're starting with a show called insights, three episodes a week.
Bill Russell:Highlights from our shows over the last five years.
Bill Russell:If you have somebody who's new to health, it, somebody who's looking
Bill Russell:to come up to speed somebody who's who you're looking to develop and
Bill Russell:train and those kinds of things.
Bill Russell:This is a great channel for them.
Bill Russell:They're about 10 minutes long each.
Bill Russell:And a again, highlights from our show.
Bill Russell:So we've had some amazing guests with great insights.
Bill Russell:And we want to bring some of that content back.
Bill Russell:Into the consciousness.
Bill Russell:For discussion and keep that moving.
Bill Russell:And then the conference channel.
Bill Russell:A lot of us get on planes.
Bill Russell:We travel thousands of miles to go to a conference, to
Bill Russell:interact with people, to hear.
Bill Russell:Keynote speakers.
Bill Russell:To learn about new products and those kinds of things.
Bill Russell:That's what the conference channel is going to be about.
Bill Russell:We're going to do those long form interviews.
Bill Russell:We're going to call that show keynote, moving forward.
Bill Russell:We have solution showcases where we highlight the products that are
Bill Russell:interesting and coming forward.
Bill Russell:We're also going to have briefing campaigns on specific topics
Bill Russell:and those kinds of things.
Bill Russell:So that is what we're going to be doing next year for channels.
Bill Russell:For this week in health, it.
Bill Russell:And we are very excited about it.
Bill Russell:You're going to be able to subscribe starting on Monday of next week.
Bill Russell:You can subscribe by visiting us at this week.
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Bill Russell:developed by Monday for you to go out there and subscribe to these shows.
Bill Russell:All right.
Bill Russell:So here's what I wanted to do over the next couple of days.
Bill Russell:I wanted to give you a conference recap.
Bill Russell:I was asked at the end.
Bill Russell:Of the healthcare to healthcare event.
Bill Russell:To address the CEO's in the room and talk to them about my last four weeks.
Bill Russell:I was at the health conference, the chime fall forum.
Bill Russell:And the healthcare to healthcare.
Bill Russell:event And.
Bill Russell:What I did is I did a rundown of each event, what the flavor of that event was.
Bill Russell:And then I went into the top five things that were top of mind for the CIO.
Bill Russell:I'm going to save the top five things until the first week of December.
Bill Russell:And I will break those out.
Bill Russell:Probably those will be the last five shows I do.
Bill Russell:For the year.
Bill Russell:And I talk about each one of those five things in detail.
Bill Russell:If you want to know what the five things are, that are top
Bill Russell:of my, for health it executives.
Bill Russell:One is labor.
Bill Russell:Number two is cyber security.
Bill Russell:Number three is all things.
Bill Russell:Digital.
Bill Russell:Number four is automation.
Bill Russell:Number five is care venues.
Bill Russell:And I did it that quickly just to wet your appetite and you'll have to come
Bill Russell:back the first week of December to hear me break out each one of those.
Bill Russell:And what I heard and why it's top of mine.
Bill Russell:For today, let's go through the conferences.
Bill Russell:In a little bit of detail.
Bill Russell:The first conference I went to was the health conference.
Bill Russell:H L T H.
Bill Russell:However you want to say that.
Bill Russell:The name of that conference, I call it the health conference.
Bill Russell:It was in Boston.
Bill Russell:It was really well done.
Bill Russell:As I've talked about before.
Bill Russell:I just have a few notes from that conference.
Bill Russell:The first is there's an awful lot of money chasing health tech at this point.
Bill Russell:The this is the conference where innovators go, where a startups go.
Bill Russell:A lot of what happens here is you have the innovators meeting with the money people.
Bill Russell:And having conversations.
Bill Russell:It's also a place to be if you're trying to get awareness.
Bill Russell:Of what you are doing in healthcare.
Bill Russell:A lot of great talks from a front.
Bill Russell:Some of the ones I will highlight.
Bill Russell:Are in some of the companies I'm going to highlight for what they said.
Bill Russell:I'm not going to go into all the individual startups.
Bill Russell:There was a great.
Bill Russell:Solutions there.
Bill Russell:And that, that would take a week to talk about all those different things.
Bill Russell:So let me just give you an update on three companies.
Bill Russell:I think really really caught my eye and continue to catch
Bill Russell:my number one is Walmart.
Bill Russell:The Walmart presentation was exceptional.
Bill Russell:And continues to be exceptional.
Bill Russell:In terms of their approach, they've been in healthcare since 1978.
Bill Russell:And I think they, them at dollar general and CVS.
Bill Russell:These are the companies that are going to give us inroads into addressing
Bill Russell:some of the gaps in rural health.
Bill Russell:And they had a great message, a great offering in that space.
Bill Russell:The second is transparent.
Bill Russell:Anytime I get together with Glen Tullman, I'm really impressed.
Bill Russell:With how they are addressing the challenge that employers face.
Bill Russell:With regard to, to Providing care for their employees.
Bill Russell:The solution is elegant.
Bill Russell:It is smart.
Bill Russell:It is well thought out.
Bill Russell:It is.
Bill Russell:It's going to be interesting to watch and that's one to keep an eye on.
Bill Russell:The final one to keep an eye on.
Bill Russell:And I highlight these three for a reason.
Bill Russell:One is the audience for the show is primarily healthcare providers.
Bill Russell:And I believe Walmart is a, it, Walmart is a partnership opportunity.
Bill Russell:I believe transparent is a partnership opportunity and I believe best buy being.
Bill Russell:The third one is a.
Bill Russell:Partnership opportunity.
Bill Russell:As we've talked about on the show before they have bought a lot
Bill Russell:of devices, a device companies, medical device companies.
Bill Russell:They see themselves as really fixing.
Bill Russell:The last mile of healthcare into the home.
Bill Russell:And they're very good at it.
Bill Russell:They're extremely good at setting things up in the home, Ella.
Bill Russell:Electronics and technology in the home and all the things that entails
Bill Russell:a great partnership opportunity.
Bill Russell:Instead of trying to build that out for any health system.
Bill Russell:The final thing I'll know from the health conference is Every.
Bill Russell:Almost every presentation started with some facsimile of this.
Bill Russell:We are this company, I'm the CEO of this company and we have 120 open positions.
Bill Russell:We have 110 open positions.
Bill Russell:We have 105 open positions.
Bill Russell:There is serious competition for labor, especially in this health tech space.
Bill Russell:And it is only going to get tighter.
Bill Russell:And that's why it's the number one issue.
Bill Russell:I believe that's top of mind for all of you.
Bill Russell:Second conference was chime fall forum.
Bill Russell:Let me give you a couple of things that I learned from there.
Bill Russell:A lot of conversations, obviously we recorded 10 of them and shared
Bill Russell:them on this channel, but the.
Bill Russell:The thing I would say is the pandemic impact continues to be uneven.
Bill Russell:There is a growing haves and have nots in healthcare.
Bill Russell:Those organizations with the funds to do all the things they need to
Bill Russell:do, and those without the funds to do the things that they need to do.
Bill Russell:There's a drive to do more with less.
Bill Russell:In terms of.
Bill Russell:Not only funding, do more with less money, but also do more with less people.
Bill Russell:There's a staffing shortage that's going on in healthcare, in it and in nursing.
Bill Russell:And.
Bill Russell:Those two shortages are creating a challenge.
Bill Russell:For health systems and we'll continue to create a challenge for health systems.
Bill Russell:And so that is another thing that I picked up in the conversations.
Bill Russell:The other thing I'll say is digital.
Bill Russell:Everybody has a digital story.
Bill Russell:What they've done with chatbots, what they've done with scheduling, what they've
Bill Russell:done with digital front doors, what they've done with just a host of things.
Bill Russell:That people are doing a digital initiatives of bound and health system
Bill Russell:leaders are excited about those things.
Bill Russell:And pushing them forward.
Bill Russell:That's one of the, one of the benefits of the pandemic is we made
Bill Russell:a lot of progress very quickly.
Bill Russell:And there's a recognition that we are going to continue to move at that
Bill Russell:pace or need to move at that pace.
Bill Russell:And so the money is going to certain areas.
Bill Russell:Really easily and that's one is security and the second is digital initiatives.
Bill Russell:And so we're seeing a lot of progress in that space.
Bill Russell:The final conference I went to was the healthcare to healthcare.
Bill Russell:Event, which was a serious invite only event, about 15 CEOs in the room.
Bill Russell:Interesting conversation.
Bill Russell:The first takeaway for me from that was clinical automation.
Bill Russell:And we heard from a company called the artist site.
Bill Russell:I interviewed their CEO on the show.
Bill Russell:Clinical automation is interesting to me.
Bill Russell:It's one of the areas in automation that we've stayed away from.
Bill Russell:We've done all the administrative stuff.
Bill Russell:We continue to really look to fine tune the administrative, but the
Bill Russell:clinical automation has a lot of promise, especially in this age.
Bill Russell:Where we have a nurse.
Bill Russell:Shortage.
Bill Russell:So that's going to be something to keep an eye on.
Bill Russell:A lot of CEOs are worried about this erosion of culture due to remote work.
Bill Russell:And I know that some people are going to Hal and go, oh my gosh,
Bill Russell:I can't believe, the old stodgy.
Bill Russell:CEO's eye.
Bill Russell:I'll put me in that category of old stodgy, CIS, I was a walk around,
Bill Russell:talk to people, kind of manager.
Bill Russell:And I would have to learn all sorts of new methods and approaches.
Bill Russell:In order to do remote work.
Bill Russell:Also keep in mind that no matter how remote you make healthcare,
Bill Russell:50% or more of your employees are always going to be on site.
Bill Russell:So it is going to have to be a dual kind of environment.
Bill Russell:And building culture in that environment takes a lot of effort, takes learning
Bill Russell:some new tricks, and that is going to be a challenge for many leaders.
Bill Russell:The other statistic I heard multiple times during my trip was 3 million women have
Bill Russell:left the workforce during the pandemic.
Bill Russell:This is I think part of the nursing shortage, but it's also.
Bill Russell:Going to be a challenge for us moving forward.
Bill Russell:In terms of having diversity of thought, having a different
Bill Russell:approach, having representation of women in the decision-making.
Bill Russell:As we know, women make a majority of the healthcare decisions in the United
Bill Russell:States and not having them present.
Bill Russell:In the healthcare ecosystem to help to guide the direction in the future.
Bill Russell:Both from a business side and from a clinical clinical side,
Bill Russell:as well as a technology side.
Bill Russell:Is going to be a significant loss.
Bill Russell:And I think that will lead to us being more creative in terms of
Bill Russell:how we bring women back into the workforce after the pandemic.
Bill Russell:And then finally,
Bill Russell:There's, we are making significant progress on cybersecurity, but there's
Bill Russell:a feeling and this is just my personal, that they are still winning the
Bill Russell:cybersecurity battle and that they is.
Bill Russell:The opponents they're getting in some of them are widespread and
Bill Russell:very debilitating kinds of attacks that take health systems down for.
Bill Russell:Mo for a month or so, and those get written up and we all hear about
Bill Russell:them and those are highly publicized.
Bill Russell:But there's a lot of other events where people get in a, they
Bill Russell:are milling around our network.
Bill Russell:And it's maybe not as broadly publicized because they're not taking the health
Bill Russell:system down, but they are wreaking havoc and we're still not winning this battle.
Bill Russell:There's still a long way to go.
Bill Russell:And a lot of work.
Bill Russell:To do in that area.
Bill Russell:So that's my, that's the recap of the Of the conferences again, I'll come back.
Bill Russell:In in a week following the Thanksgiving vacation and I'm going to go through the
Bill Russell:top five top of mind issues for health.
Bill Russell:It execs.
Bill Russell:And we will break each one of those down individually and
Bill Russell:talk about each one of those.
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