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Learn Financial Management in Las Vegas

By Heather Hogstrom

Las Vegas will host the Healthcare Financial Management Association’s (HFMA) 2016 ANI: The Healthcare Finance Conference June 26-29. Attendees can socialize and get a taste of the city at several networking events, including Sunday night’s Post-Welcome Reception held at popular nightclub and restaurant TAO, and An Evening With The Stars at Madame Tussaud’s Wax Museum on Monday.

This year’s conference, which offers 21.5 CPEs, emphasizes innovation and encourages attendees to step out of the box. Keynote presentations will be given by Julie Williamson, PhD, coauthor of Matter: Move Beyond the Competition, Create More Value, and Become the Obvious Choice, and Eric Topol, MD, cardiologist and author of The Patient Will See You Now: The Future of Medicine is in Your Hands. Additionally, Wei-Nchih Lee, MD, internal medicine physician and senior research scientist at HP Labs; Nina Nashif, founder and CEO of Healthbox; and Glenn D. Steele, Jr., MD, PhD, chair of xG Health Solutions, past president and CEO of Geisinger Health System will take part in Wednesday’s Healthcare Innovation Panel.

To help attendees select the education most relevant to their interests, sessions are identified by the following content themes:

• Compliance & Legal Updates;
• Consolidation & Competition;
• Finance, Accounting & Capital Markets;
• The Impact of Consumerism;
• Intelligence, Analytics & Interoperability;
• Payment Trends & Delivery Models;
• Quality, Cost & Clinical Transformation; and
• Revenue Cycle & the Patient Experience.

To stay connected and up to date at the HFMA conference, use Twitter hashtag #HFMA2016ANI and download the ANI 2016 mobile app, which enables users to view the program and maps, create an itinerary, network with attendees, and more. For more information or to register, visit www.hfmaconference.org.

— Heather Hogstrom is an editorial assistant at For The Record.