Healthcare leaders today are operating in one of the most complex environments the industry has ever faced. Margins are thin, workforce shortages persist, cybersecurity threats are constant, and regulatory pressures continue to grow. At the same time, patients and families who now live in a digital world expect healthcare to[…]
Innovation in Healthcare: A Pragmatist’s Perspective
Innovation in Healthcare IT: From Ideas to Impact Innovation has become one of the most overused and misunderstood words in healthcare. We talk about it constantly. We celebrate it publicly. We fund it enthusiastically. Yet too often, innovation in healthcare information technology (HIT) produces pilots that never scale, tools that[…]
Embracing Change: Choose the Future You Want Instead of the One Others Predict
The internet never forgets. It collects our photos, posts, searches, purchases, likes, and locations. Algorithms use our digital trail to predict what we might do next, what we’ll click on, what we’ll buy, even what we may believe. But while the internet can aggregate our past, it can only guess[…]
What Will Matter to Health IT Leaders in 2026: A New Era of Digital Stewardship
If history teaches us anything, it’s that healthcare does not move in straight lines. It lurches, leaps, and occasionally gets shoved into its future. We’ve all seen that firsthand. I’ve often joked that healthcare’s pace resembles a reluctant mule. That can be a strength or weakness. Like a mule confronted[…]
Get me a Broom
Recently, I watched a relatively brief documentary story on Texas Country Reporter about Nam Joti Kaur Khalsa, a broom maker in Austin, TX who creates brooms by hand. She espoused a philosophy about the importance of using a broom to “clean up” both physical and psychological spaces. She captured something[…]
Vision is Important – Focus is Essential
Focus Over Vision: Why Attention on Objectives Matters Most in Healthcare We live in an age of constant distraction. We all wrestle with one or more inboxes that are usually overfull. We are barraged by cell phone calls, text messages, ads, and notifications. We are all dealing with multiple, often[…]
Living and Leading in Chaotic and Uncertain Times
I’ve written before about what it means to lead healthcare IT through chaos and uncertainty. What strikes me now is how often those same themes come up in everyday conversations, no matter who I’m speaking with, regardless of where they live or what sector employs them. Friends, colleagues, even casual[…]
From Healing Hands to Healing Hearts: What the Nation Can Learn from Healthcare
The Case for Compassion, Mercy, Empathy, and Trust This blog is a reminder to myself on my quest to be a better me. Healthcare is more than a profession. It’s a calling. For many of us, it’s a path chosen not just for science or the skills, but because it[…]
The Rise of Care at Home: Healthcare’s Most Important Shift Is Already Underway
One of the most profound shifts in modern healthcare isn’t happening inside hospitals or doctor’s offices, it’s happening at home. Across the country, health systems, payers, providers, and tech innovators are accelerating the move toward care-at-home models that offer high-quality, lower-cost, patient-centered alternatives to traditional facility-based care. As someone who[…]
Food is Medicine: A Vital Movement at a Policy Crossroads
Health policy has profound short and long-term effects on the health of our nation and the world. This blog explores one viewpoint on only one of them – Food is Medicine – and is not intended as medical advice or a universal truth. Readers are encouraged to consider multiple perspectives[…]