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Medullan sponsors the Transforming Healthcare Summit 2009

Medullan was honored to be a sponsor of the Transforming Healthcare Summit 2009 that was held at the Boston Seaport Hotel on February 26, 2009.  We joined with organizer HIL Forum and other healthcare IT companies and organizations from both the public and private sector.

Change has been on the agenda for a long time in the healthcare industry, but change has been slow to come and implementing change has been fraught with pitfalls along the way.  The Obama Adminstration is giving all indications that addressing this need for change in healthcare is going to be front and center among the key challenges that will be addressed over the next four years.   Since November 4th, much attention within the industry has been given to the question of whether President Obama would still be able to tackle this problem given the issues with the broader US economy.  The industry waited with bated breath to see what investment would be made in healthcare as part of the stimulus package that the President challenged Congress to create.

With the stimulus package signed into law on Tuesday February 17th, it finally seemed that those who had been waiting to see what would transpire could now shift gears and begin the work mapping out the road ahead.  There is much to be done, and there are still many, many more questions than there are answers, but after several months of “wait and see”, it is clearly time for those most able to move the ball forward in healthcare to come together and begin the hard work that lays ahead.  While the Summit of course cannot in and of itself boast to have started the ball in motion, it may prove to be an effective call to action for those of us who have been forced into playing a waiting game over the past three months due to the state of the domestic and global economy.

To hear about the content of the discussion on the summit, I suggest reading my colleague’s blog article here

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