Bold Insights from the #MGMA15 Keynote Kickoff

Yesterday was the start of the MGMA Annual conference in Nashville. The event kicked off with a really great opening keynote from MGMA’s President and CEO Dr. Halee Fischer-Wright. While most keynotes from organization Presidents are boring and dry, I loved how candid and straight forward Dr. Fischer-Wright was in her comments. She definitely is pushing forward a new vision for the organization.

Here’s some highlights I tweeted from her keynote:


This reminds me of my post on EHR induced PTSD. I could have easily called that post Healthcare Buzzword induced PTSD.


Pretty brave of her to be so bold. I’ll be interested to hear people’s reactions.


I agree with her that Healthcare has changed, but I’d also argue that healthcare is still changing. That just compounds the problem.


I agree that apathy is an extraordinary challenge. Most doctors and healthcare professionals feel paralyzed and feel that they can’t do anything to make a difference or change the trajectory of where healthcare is headed. That’s a good thing since that’s a perception you can change. Apathy because people don’t care would be a much harder challenge.


This leads to some apathy as well, but also is converting to anger.

Needless to say I was impressed by Dr. Fischer-Wright. Appropriately, Jeremy Gutsche spoke after Dr. Fischer-Wright and commented about the need of organizations and people to take risks and fail. Much of the learning we get comes from taking risks and accepting that sometimes we’re going to fail. I think that’s where Dr. Fischer-Wright is taking the MGMA organization. She’s looking at big, ambitious goals. She might fail at some, but I predict that those that don’t fail are going to make a big difference.

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