I just finished reading a brilliant and very disturbing article about the growing mental health crisis on university campuses. In an article published by The Hill on March 18, 2026, author Lex Lonas Cochran shared alarming data. I immediately shared her article, Colleges struggle to keep up with growing mental[…]
Why Every Healthcare Strategy Is Now (or Should Be) a Digital Strategy
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[…]
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[…]
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[…]
Mental Health Month 2025 – In Every Story, There’s Strength: Facing Mental Health with Compassion and Courage
May is Mental Health Awareness Month – a time to take action, raise our voices, and help raise awareness about the importance of mental health. This year’s theme, “In Every Story, There’s Strength,” could not be more fitting. My story began when I was just ten years old, exposed for[…]