HFMA’s ANI Conference in Las Vegas

I’ve been gearing up for the big HFMA ANI (HFMA National Institute) conference happening in Las Vegas June 22-25. This conference is largely focused at hospital CFOs, but all of the solutions being offered are now leveraging some form of technology. So, I certainly have a learning curve when talking to many at the conference, but it’s a great place to see where hospitals really plan to spend their money.

I think this will be my third time attending the event and it’s quite the experience. While not as large as the enormous HIMSS annual conference, the booths are just as big and I think that more cash flows at ANI than at HIMSS.

I like to describe it this way. All of the deals being talked about at ANI are a question of whether the organization can save them $5 million or $100 million. In fact, a lot of the contract discussions at ANI have some form of performance metric in order for the vendor to get paid. It makes for a really unique experience.

You can see from the keynote speakers that they’re heavy on leadership. I always enjoy a professional leadership speaker, so I’ll do what I can to cover them. Plus, I’ve never heard Atul Gawande, MD in person and so that should be interesting.

My schedule at ANI is really filling up, but if you’re planning to attend I’d love to meet up if we can. We can at least hang out together at one of the evening receptions or parties. I always love to meet readers and learn from them.

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John Lynn

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