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[…]
In a Digital World, The Human Elements are Essential
People. Processes. Technology. That’s the framework most often used by IT professionals to develop a holistic approach to digitally enabling systems to improve health and care. These elements are listed in priority order, an acknowledgement that the human components – people and processes – deserve primary attention. In a recent[…]
2021 – A renewed focus on clinical systems
In 2020, the year of COVID-19, health system IT departments were in reactive mode – dealing with and reacting to data requests, staffing challenges, and capacity strain, while supporting the pandemic response. In the coming months, we will see a completely different world, with vaccination roll-out, a new federal administration[…]
12 Steps to Prepare for 2021 – Big Challenges – Bigger Opportunities
2020 has been a year like no other. Though I’m very optimistic about the sun shining brightly in the future there are still some lingering clouds in the sky. IT professionals frequently refer to their work in 3 parts – people, process, and technology. I want to focus on people[…]
Importance of disaster recovery at home and at work
“Crack!!”, a loud sound, as I sat in front of my home PC, startled me. My anxiety increased when I looked down and saw that the 2 TB external drive I had stored 50,000 family photos (from past 20 yrs) on, had dropped 18 inches from the precarious perch on[…]
Digital Health – Language and Comprehension
Digital Health transformation has been underway for some time now. It’s changing health and care processes, dramatically improving the availability of data, information, and knowledge. There is, however, a barrier that exists between many caregivers and their patients – language – the fundamental requirement for effective communication. Effective communication ensures[…]