StarBridge Advisors was launched in October of 2016. So, what does a small team of entrepreneurs do on their first anniversary? They take stock and plan for year two. We have a several ways to measure our success at this point: • We have already assisted 12 healthcare provider organizations[…]
Patients First! Patience Always!
Soon after I began working as a CIO at Presbyterian Healthcare System (PHS) in Dallas in 1992 – 25 years ago – I asked the staff to hang a banner with those 4 words printed with a bold 12-inch font in the data center. It was placed strategically to ensure[…]
ONC – Now is not the time to relax certification
I have some concerns regarding the changes that the Office of National Coordinator for Health Information Technology has announced. The underlying reason for requiring a certification is to provide certainty to the purchaser of a product. ONC’s rationale for pursuing self-declaration was to lessen the burden on the vendor and[…]
Today’s Solutions, Tomorrow’s Leaders
Change is a given. And change at the top of organizations is more common than you expect. So what do you do when a key IT leadership position unexpectedly opens? Do you look internally at your strong second to step in as an interim and possibly take the permanent position?[…]
A Vote for Bipartisan Healthcare Reform
Believe it or not, many months ago, during the Presidential debates, I mentioned that almost nothing was being discussed regarding healthcare. Well things have certainly changed!! Now both sides of the political aisle are high and mighty about Obamacare–repeal, replace, fix, and on and on. Mostly rhetoric. Different than Obamacare,[…]
Radical Collaboration
Is collaboration important? Absolutely. Amazon obviously agrees. They reportedly are willing to pay $9 Billion to acquire Slack, a company who provides technologies that assist with collaboration. But just what is collaboration? It’s a lot more than technology. If you Google “collaboration”, the search returns more than half a billion[…]
Interim Management – Providing a Bridge During Transition
One of your key executives takes another opportunity, or announces their retirement. Does your organization have a strong succession plan and a number two waiting in the wings? Maybe there’s just too much going on to ask that person to do double duty. Even if you do have someone able[…]
Startup Field Report #1
How hard could it be? To start a company, collaborate with innovative leaders, help them advance healthcare with technology solutions? Especially for two healthcare IT rock stars–Sue Schade and David Muntz–and me. Sue and David come from similar backgrounds—CIOs at world renowned academic medical centers, both with top industry recognition, one even with a White House appointment. I, on the[…]
Words and Context Matter
Like many people in HIT, science fiction and fact fascinate me. So, I took my wife on an HIT person’s kind of date to see the “stellar” movie Arrival. [You can read on from here without any concerns about spoiler alerts beyond what the movie trailers reveal.] She loved it.[…]
HIMSS17 – Make the most of IT
We’re in those final few frenzied weeks before HIMSS. You are either sitting it out this year because it’s just gotten too big or you’re too busy to take the time to go. If that’s the case, you’re maybe hoping your team attending will get a lot out of it[…]