Greetings from the Windy City! My name is Tony Chen, I started hospital impact one fateful evening in March 2005. I work at Healthcare Financial Management Association as the Director of Product Innovation. In this role, I'm responsible for developing and bringing new products and services to hospital executives. Thus, I am constantly thinking about the business side of hospitals, especially the financial management aspects.

Given my business background, I am also very interested in all aspects of hospital management / leadership and am curious to find leadership insights and strategies from other industries. I believe that hospitals lag behind many other industries in various respects, but most importantly in the area of business leadership. Still, I believe that hospitals can be the best run organizations on the face of the planet.

Before HFMA, I was in business school at the Kellogg School of Management, where I majored in non-profit management, marketing, and finance. I also worked part-time as a healthcare equity research associate for an investment bank and was an independent healthcare management consultant. Prior to Kellogg, I worked several years at Merck as a Project Leader and Management Analyst. Back in the day, I was a Chemical Engineering major at Cornell University.

Obligatory Disclaimer: the views and opinions expressed on this blog most definitely do not necessarily reflect the views or opinions of my employer, my employer's members, my friends, my mom, my goldfish, or anybody else besides me. Hospital Impact is not affiliated with HFMA, ACHE, or any other four-letter acronym and is purely a personal endeavor. I may refer to HFMA resources from time to time, but only when I believe it benefits hospital impact readers. [add your favorite legalese here]

Drop me an email at tony[at]hospitalimpact[dot]org. Hope you stay awhile!

Check out my very first post here. Wow, I was such a young, misty-eyed blogger back then!