April 2010 - EHR: How difficult without the correct strategy

In the next few years, brick and mortar, immobile physician-centric EMRs and EHRs—those large EHR systems implemented by healthcare providers residing on large systems will be supplanted by portable patient-centric EMRs residing on a next generation of super smart devices—we call them smart phones today...

I am speaking on reforming the large provider healthcare model. Please let me know if the concept depicted below makes sense. The picture on the napkin is meant to be read last. Thanks Read More...

Margaret Thatcher said, “Anyone who finds themselves on public transport after the age of 26 must consider themselves a failure.” There’s probably some sort of corollary for anyone twice that age that spends part of every day writing to imaginary people on the web. When I write I like to pick a...

I wrote this in response to some comments I received on my piece in HospitalImpact.org. I do not advocate assembly line medicine, especially at a hospital. I go out of my way to stay out of the healthcare business, the clinical side of healthcare, an area in which I have no background other than having...

I am a huge fan of the phrase, “What if?” Thinking is vastly underrated, especially by those who don’t—think, that is. Where are all the what-iffers? On the overrated side are the 2.0’s and 3.0’s. Those terms connote a handful of things, none of which are particularly helpful. It is as though those in...

If you and I agreed on everything, one of us wouldn’t be needed. Of the many special things associated with growing up in this country, one is held dearly by every American eight-year old male who owned a flashlight and an AM transistor radio with an earplug. During those long hot summer nights...

The other night as I’m sitting on a hard bleacher watching my seven-year-olds baseball practice I noticed the mom sitting next to me looking a little forlorn. Being naturally inquisitive, I asked if everything was okay. “I lost his glove,” she replied. Noticing a glove on her son’s hand, she saw my look...

It may be helpful as you read this to use your highlighter on the screen to accentuate the important parts or some white-out for the parts you don’t favor. Do you ever kick an idea around, speaking about it, writing about it, until at some point you finally capture it in a way that makes sense...