BUYLINE Innovation trek by Janette Wider


Janette Wider Editor-in-Chief


Every time I attend a session at a conference or a webinar on artifi cial intelligence technologies in healthcare, a journalist or two will ask, “Are robots going to replace humans?” This generally gets a chuckle from attendees and/or presenters and is followed by a response that says technology is there to assist clinicians and hospital staff, not replace them. These conversations usually get me thinking about how


far the healthcare industry has come in the past 100 years, and how some advance- ments that we take for granted today were truly groundbreaking at the time. Before 1923, scarlet fever was decimating the health of individuals of all ages—


those who contracted the disease could suffer blindness, deafness, heart and kidney conditions, and permanent paralysis. A yellow fl ag and printed notice were usually posted outside the home of an affl icted individual to warn visitors of the danger. Yet, in 1924, a serum that battled the disease was introduced by husband-and-wife researchers George and Gladys Dick, but there still was no cure.1 On February 12, 1941, Albert Alexander, became the fi rst recipient of the Oxford penicillin. (In 1928, Dr. Alexander Fleming of London noticed mold growing on a Petri dish of Staphylococcus bacteria and the mold was preventing bacteria around it from growing.) Alexander was a 43-year-old policeman who scratched his mouth while pruning roses and developed an infection affecting his eyes, face, and lungs. Howard Florey, Ernst Chain, and their colleagues at the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology at Oxford University turned penicillin into a life-saving drug. Their work on the purifi cation and chemistry of penicillin began in 1939. Unfortunately, Alexander died a few days later, as supplies of the drug ran short.2 Fast forward 20 years later, and the pharmaceutical industry has essentially taken off. In the 1960s, new drugs like the contraceptive pill, Valium, Librium, blood- pressure drugs, and other heart-helping medications were marketed. Additionally, people, particularly in the U.S., were demanding more access to healthcare and protection against unsafe medications.3 Another 20 years later, in 1982, physicians at the University of Utah Medical


Center in Salt Lake City successfully implanted a permanent artifi cial heart in a 61-year-old patient.4


As for a more recent development that seems commonplace today, we have the electronic health record (EHR). In 2009, the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act, enacted as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, was signed into law on Feb. 17, 2009. The act essentially motivated healthcare organizations to implement EHR systems to improve the accuracy of health records and accessibility to patients. The HITECH Act included incentives to purchase certifi ed EHR systems as well as authorizing Medicare and Medicaid to provide payments to hospitals and physicians who demonstrate “meaningful use” of EHRs.5 Finally, in 2023, Healthcare Purchasing News named a new Editor-in-Chief, which is


just one reason why I am writing to you. I’ve spent most of my career in healthcare journalism and have become incredibly passionate about all things related to our industry. My promise to you, our readers, is to keep an eye on the ever-evolving healthcare landscape and continue delivering the high-quality content you have come to expect from HPN.


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Jimmy Chung, MD, MBA, FACS, FABQAURP, CMRP, Chief Medical Offi cer, Advantus Health Partners and Bon Secours Mercy Health, Cincinnati, OH; Joe Colonna, Chief Supply Chain and Project Management Offi cer, Piedmont Healthcare, Atlanta, GA; Karen Conway, Vice President, Healthcare Value, GHX, Louisville, CO; Dee Donatelli, RN, BSN, MBA, Senior Director, Spend symplr, and Principal, Dee Donatelli Consulting LLC, Austin, TX; Hudson Garrett Jr., PhD, FNAP, FSHEA, FIDSA, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Medicine, Infectious Diseases, University of Louisville School of Medicine; Melanie Miller, RN, CVAHP, CNOR, CSPDM, Value Analysis Consultant, Healthcare Value Management Experts Inc. (HVME) Los Angeles, CA; Dennis Orthman, Consulting, Braintree, MA; Janet Pate, Nurse Consultant and Educator, Ruhof Corp.; Richard Perrin, CEO, Active Innovations LLC, Annapolis, MD; Jean Sargent, CMRP, FAHRMM, FCS, Principal, Sargent Healthcare Strategies, Port Charlotte, FL; Richard W. Schule, MBA, BS, FAST, CST, FCS, CRCST, CHMMC, CIS, CHL, AGTS, Senior Director Enterprise Reprocessing, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH; Barbara Strain, MA, CVAHP, Principal, Barbara Strain Consulting LLC, Charlottesville, VA; Deborah Petretich Templeton, RPh, MHA,Chief Administrative Offi cer (Ret.), System Support Services, Geisinger Health, Danville, PA; Ray Taurasi, Principal, Healthcare CS Solutions, Washington, DC area


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