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?? Our November Happy Hour is LIVE! We're changing things up this month and will be at Torched Hop on Thursday, November 14th! RSVP here: https://lnkd.in/eWjphGzx

With the holiday season upon us, Bonne Fire ATL will be taking a short break during the month of December to give our members and team time to be with their families and attend all the holiday parties. That means no December healthtech happy hour -- but rest assured, our team is already planning for 2025 ?

One of Atlanta's best, Patrick W. from Elion, is hosting a webinar walking through their latest vendor guide on Autonomous Coding solutions! Join Patrick next Thursday, November 21st at 3pm ET. RSVP here: https://lnkd.in/e6MguACb

When it rains, we meet up for pours! Join us this evening at 5:30 at Torched Hop for our November Healthtech Happy Hour ?? RSVP Here: https://lnkd.in/eWjphGzx?

Our little ATL healthtech community got its start with Health Tech Nerds, and we're so grateful to get to partner with them each month!

Make sure to check your kids' Halloween candy for flawed research based on bad data! 80% of Physicians are not employed by health systems or corporate entities despite the dramatic headlines that Physicians Advocacy Institute (PAI) and Avalere have been handing out all year. When this research was initially published, some people reached out with skepticism of the report as HDA recently published an analysis showing 66% were part of Health Systems and Large Groups. We conducted extensive QA to confirm that our numbers were correct, so we were also quite skeptical (We randomly sampled providers out of each “bucket” and had a researcher confirm the employment and group size) We were curious what would cause such an overestimation, so we dug into the actual report. There we found that it was based on the IQVIA OneKey database which only included affiliation information on 648,341 physicians (65% of the widely accepted physician count) We also discovered the methodology is primarily based on either physician address or pharma sales rep information. This significantly over classifies independent physicians as hospital employed when they rent offices adjacent to the hospital. Even the AMA was skeptical after their report 2 years ago and suspected they were classifying practices as corporate owned based on the legal entity type. In new Avalere research, also based on IQVIA data, they state that the Permanente Medical Group is corporate owned (as opposed to health system owned). We won’t even dig into the strange large swings we found in the year over year numbers. (Indicating the changes are driven by bias in the dataset, not reality) While the difference between 23% and 34% doesn’t seem very significant, it actually means there are 48% more independent physicians than are being reported here! We’re not saying physician consolidation isn’t a problem, but better data and research is required for everyone to truly understand what is going on.

Spooky szn is here!! Our October ATL Healthtech Happy Hour is TOMORROW, October 30th at New Realm. See y'all there! RSVP Here: https://lnkd.in/e6-Pgxmj

Are you returning from HLTH and already missing your favorite digital healthers? Join us next Wednesday at New Realm for a spooky edition of our ATL Healthtech Happy Hour! RSVP Here: https://lnkd.in/e6-Pgxmj?

With so much happening every day in healthtech, we are loving Elion's weekly briefing, featuring our very own Patrick W.. ?? to this week's briefing: https://lnkd.in/e_KZkHtn Haven't subscribed yet? Check it out here: https://lnkd.in/gtnM-sJ9

?? "When's the October event??" "What's Bonne Fire doing for October?" "I really want to talk to someone about what's going on with Particle and Epic, when do we get to hang out next??" Okay okay, we heard y'all. Our October event has finally been announced! Join us October 30th at 5:30pm at New Realm for a spooky halloween happy hour. Costumes encouraged! RSVP: https://lnkd.in/e6-Pgxmj?