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A message from our President

prise medical bills and sticker shock relics of the
SFHHA Virtual Healthcare past.”
We have also started hearing about NextG tech-
Summit to Focus on the Future nology and how your smartphone may become
your health hub. Processing data from your med-
ical devices and allowing you to control who that
The SFHHA, like most organizations, is learning to adapt to our newly found data might be shared with. In a recent article in
situations. With vaccination rates stalling at a little over 50 percent, planned Medscape, “This is your data. You own it and your
events have to continue to err on the side of safety. This year we are going to have device takes care of this. That level of smartness
two Summits, one in June (June 23), a virtual event, and if everything goes right, doesn’t exist today; that’s something that we hope
a face-to-face Summit on September 17th. (Event and registration information: we can enable with this kind of research” (talking
https://www.sfhha.com/events-page/#!event/2021/6/23/part-1-of-the-2021-annu- about grants being given by the National Science
al-healthcare-summit-virtual-edition) Foundation to hasten this research). They are call-
We have heard it loud and clear, no more focusing on COVID-19! While the ing it NextG instead of 6G because it might not
virus and the disease are not quite in our rearview mirrors, after more than a year, Jaime Caldwell look anything like what we are doing today.
our healthcare leaders want to hear more about what the future might look like. We are going to talk about many of these things
And, while we have heard that message, what we know is that the pandemic has at our virtual Summit. We will hear from Dr. Josep Figueras, Director of the
caused tremendous growth in innovation in the healthcare and other aligned European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies, who will talk about the
spaces. harnessing of innovations to build back better: European Lessons from the
Over the last year we have lost sight about what else is happening in the health- Pandemic. Then we will hear from Lindsey Dunn Burgstahler, Vice President of
care space. Pushed to respond to the challenges of the pandemic, the industry has Programming and Intelligence, American Hospital Association’s Center for Health
been occupied and the focus on future development was pushed to the side. Innovation, who will take a national perspective and talk about market intelli-
Well, during all that time, innovators have not stopped! Walmart purchased gence and what isn’t changing.
MeMD and plans to offer telehealth service nationwide. As Paul Keckley men- These are amazing times and I just sit back and start to think about what the
tioned in his newsletter several weeks ago, “patients will behave as consumers and healthcare landscape might look like in ten years and I can’t even imagine.
be treated as customers, services are convenient and readily accessible and sur- See you (virtually) in June!

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