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Church Choir Anthem: Eric Church performs during the Super Bowl LV pregame at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Fla., Feb. 7. “The science was the biggest hurdle,” says Q Prime South’s John Peets of his client Eric Church’s desire to rock arenas in 2021. “What do we do if the rules are against us? The feeling – really early, once his record was done – was, let’s start dripping songs out, keep going towards April.
“We just kept marching forward, but we had a lot of conversations, a lot of big brains from the NFL and college football, high level people with a lot of money at risk, the CDC, the buildings, the municipalities and states. It was such a moving target, everybody was guessing, informed but guessing.
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Healthcare experts discussed how leaders of digitally mature hospitals can support the digital process of healthcare systems during the Achieving Digital Maturity Across Entire Health and Care Ecosystems session at the UK Healthcare Excellence Through Technology (HETT) conference.
The speakers were: Dr Charles Alessi, chief clinical officer at HIMSS; Ben Maruthappu, CEO at CERA and board member at Imperial NHS trust; Katherine Church, chief digital officer at Surrey Heartlands ICS; Claus Duedal Pedersen, director of the Sentinel Unit at sundhed.dk; John Rayner, regional director EMEA, HIMSS Analytics; and Dr Shankar Sridharan, chief clinical information officer, consultant paediatric cardiologist at Great Ormand Street Hospital for Children NHS FT.
In a recent interview, Jim Russell explained why he decided to sell after so long.
âBecause Iâm old and he wanted it,â he said, pointing to Jim Coddington. âIâm 72 years old. Iâve been here for 44 years, and I think itâs probably time.â
Coddington said finding the lumberyard for sale helped him and his family achieve a lifeâs goal.
âI told people a couple of years ago, weâd been vacationing out here for several years and we loved it so much, if we could find a way to make a living, weâd move out here,â he said.