Real success and ongoing progress require a mix of constructive indignation and creative insecurity. It’s more than metrics. It’s how you approach metrics – what’s part of your heart goals, not just what’s part of your SMART goals (specific, measurable, achievable, realistic, timely). As an adjunct professor in Baylor’s Hankamer[…]
12 Steps to Prepare for 2022 – Big Challenges – Bigger Opportunities
Optimism has served me well throughout life but it’s not sufficient to deal with some of the stark realities we face. The overriding impact of COVID continues. Very sadly, in spite of the fact that we have effective vaccines and supplies are not a problem in most areas of the[…]
Digital Health – Literacy Matters
Not so long ago, the term literacy was simply the ability to read and write. Today literacy has a far broader meaning. As our lives become more digitally enabled, as healthcare becomes more digitally enabled, we need to talk about many forms of literacy; first and foremost, health literacy. Health[…]
Will your ERP enable the business transformation you need?
Should we stay the course or revisit what’s available in the market? Is it time to migrate to the cloud? Can we keep cobbling together a lot of bolt-on solutions and make it work? Is this an investment we can afford? Are we ready to make it a priority? Is[…]
Independent Verification & Validation (IV&V)
Information Technology (IT) is an essential element of all organizations across the healthcare continuum, interacting in myriad and evolving ways. As we know, the organizational experiences and results with IT projects vary widely. A project’s risk profile can be correlated to major factors including its size, the number of people[…]
Digital Health – A Practical Model for Change Management
Becoming a digital health system requires self-directed evolution, the deliberate act of transforming from the traditional model of care into a digitally enabled model. To be successful on both a personal and organizational basis, you need a practical change management framework that can assist both the change agents and those[…]
Now What? Working in a Post Covid World
It seems clear now that we won’t be returning to the past and any pre-Covid19 ‘normal’. This relates to many things, including our future working environment. The time of Zoom, Teams and other video conferencing services is here and not going away. People are still not 100% back in their offices; will they ever be? I think[…]
Digital Health – Planning for the Virtual Campus
In response to the Coronavirus pandemic, the healthcare sector has experienced remarkable and revolutionary care transformation. Change didn’t proceed in small gradual steps – it occurred in a series of giant leaps and bounds – in hours rather than weeks, in days rather than months or years. Hospitals expanded into[…]
Health IT Post Covid-19 – How to Apply Lessons Learned
We learned much during Covid and much will change for the better as the Covid pandemic winds down. (You probably recognize patterns described in my previous post on Covid lessons learned. Much of what occurred is related.) In fact, the changes required to implement the operational, strategic, and tactical HIT[…]
Health IT Post Covid-19 – Lessons Learned
This is a timely topic as the Covid-19 pandemic enters a phase that I will categorize as the “Beginning of the End”. There are three EUA vaccines authorized for use in the US and a small handful more in other countries. Some countries have reached very impressive immunization rates that[…]