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- Welcome to the Becker's
Healthcare Podcast.

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We at Becker's are excited

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to welcome more than 2,500
healthcare executives

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to Chicago in April
For our annual meeting.

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Over the four day event,

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you'll hear more than 450 elite hospital

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and health system executives.

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Share the big ideas and best strategies

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driving healthcare forward.

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unless coming through a
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Without further ado,

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here is your daily industry news briefing

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for today, March 4th.

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First, some CIOs are
struggling to keep pace

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with a huge explosion in outside vendors.

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That has con coincided
with the hype over ai,

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the Wall Street Journal
reported March 4th.

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Besides ai, CIOs are also
sifting through a growing number

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of digital tools and are also
looking for smaller vendors

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so they don't rely so heavily
on a handful of big companies.

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Gartner IT researcher, Steven
White told the newspaper

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Carhartt, CIO Katrina, August
told the journal quote,

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you just can't keep pace.

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The Workwear company software

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as a service subscriptions are up to 121

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and 2024 compared to 59 5 years ago

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and 20 a decade ago, some
organizations have been able

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to shift the other way.

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Pharma Company, Moderna
stated, working with a bunch

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of software firms as it raced to get out

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of a vaccine amid a pandemic.

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According to the story,
Moderna, CIO, Brad Miller,

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to the news outlet quote, A lot

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of times my business partners
were running crazy fast

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because they needed
something, so they just went

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and signed licenses

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and there wasn't really
a tech review end quote.

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But since spending more
time analyzing costs

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and value, Moderna has decreased
its ven vendors from 257

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last year to 200 this year.

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The newspaper reported second

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Larry Ellison's cancer focused
software startup Project.

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Ronan is shutting down. The
register reported March 1st.

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The company is set to undergo
a permanent mass layoff due

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to its closure, resulting in
the termination of as many

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as 150 employees.

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The news outlet reported

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that Project Ronan received
initial funding from Mr.

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E Mr. Ellison,

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but faced challenges in
attracting paying customers

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and eventually ran out of funds
to sustain its operations.

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The startup founded in
2018 had an objective

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to enhanced cancer care
by aiding physicians

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and patients in making
more informed decisions

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regarding treatment.

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Mr. Ellison is currently
the chief technology officer

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of Oracle, a company he co-founded.

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Third, Amazon is training an AI chatbot

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to handle incoming patient messages

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and address administrative curries.

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For one medical former employees
told the Washington Post.

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When asked about this,

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the company refrain from
confirming specific details about

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its AI initiatives.

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For one, medical for the
post is February 28th. Story.

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- However, Amazon emphasized
its continuous investment in

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technology aimed at reducing
healthcare providers time spent

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on administrative task.

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This comes as former employees
also told the news outlet

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that Amazon, in response
to the surge in telehealth,

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patients initiated the
rerouting of inbound messages

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through a central call center
known as mission control.

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But due to the recent reduction
of some front desk roles

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during the Amazon layoffs,

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mission Control experienced
an initial influx

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of additional calls as indicated
an employee Slack messages

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were viewed by the Post One Medical,

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told the news outlet mission
control wasn't overwhelmed

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and that the new system is
improving response time.

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