{"id":373,"date":"2008-04-09T01:08:17","date_gmt":"2008-04-09T05:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ttmitchellconsulting.com\/Mitchblog\/2008\/04\/09\/meeting-allan-dekaye\/"},"modified":"2015-06-25T16:27:46","modified_gmt":"2015-06-25T20:27:46","slug":"meeting-allan-dekaye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ttmitchellconsulting.com\/Mitchblog\/meeting-allan-dekaye\/","title":{"rendered":"Meeting Allan DeKaye"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight I met Allan DeKaye, one of the people who participated in my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ttmitchellconsulting.com\/Mitchblog\/interview-series-dekaye-consulting-inc\/\"><b>interview series<\/b><\/a>.  We'd talked on the phone before, but never met, mainly because he lives on Long Island, where I haven't been in over 20 years, and I live here in the Syracuse area.<\/p>\n<p>I always enjoy meeting and having time to talk to people like Allan, who in my mind is kind of a pioneer in the world of independent healthcare consulting.  He started out with a large consulting firm before getting into consulting on his own, and he's made a major go of it.  His name is fairly well known by the type of people I want to get to know me, but what's strange is that he's probably not as well known in this area.  Sometimes my own area can be so insular; then again, outside of my peers, no one else knows me here either, which is why I end up traveling so much.<\/p>\n<p>We're both giving presentations tomorrow to the <b>Mid York Medical Management Association<\/b>, which is affiliated with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aaham.org\" target=\"_blank\"><b>American Association of Healthcare Administrative Management<\/b><\/a>, and a group for whom I'm a past president (4 years), presently sit on the board, and have been the editor of their newsletter since 1997; I just need to devote more time to it, since I write so many other newsletters already.  It should be an interesting and fun day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight I met Allan DeKaye, one of the people who participated in my interview series. We&#8217;d talked on the phone before, but never met, mainly because he lives on Long Island, where I haven&#8217;t been in over 20 years, and I live here in the Syracuse area. I always enjoy meeting and having time to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-healthcare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttmitchellconsulting.com\/Mitchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttmitchellconsulting.com\/Mitchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttmitchellconsulting.com\/Mitchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttmitchellconsulting.com\/Mitchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttmitchellconsulting.com\/Mitchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttmitchellconsulting.com\/Mitchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttmitchellconsulting.com\/Mitchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttmitchellconsulting.com\/Mitchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttmitchellconsulting.com\/Mitchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}