It is great to be back together among our tribe of informaticists at Epic’s XGM (eXpert Group Meeting) in Verona, Wisconsin, where the best and the brightest share our work, our leadership and change management lessons, and celebrate our successes.
Inbasket Dynamite refers to the Hyperobject that is the EHR inbasket, the nerve center of communications that, like the post office, can grow to unmanageable size and could contribute to physician and provider burnout. Time to “light it up” and redesign it.

I’m on stage at the Epic Physician Advisory Council (PAC) reception, grateful to receive the 2021 PACademy Award (physician of the year) from the voting of our international physician informatics community, along with Heidi Twedt (2020 awardee) and Joel Buchanan (2022 awardee). Due to the pandemic, we have missed the last 2 years of the PAC meeting in person, so this is our catch-up. I’m honored to be in such company.

If you’re not a BTS fanatic, like we are at our house, here are a couple of videos to whet your appetite:
My son Avery covering BTS’s dance moves in Dynamite, for the pure joy of it:
And, one of the official BTS music videos on Dynamite. Many of their videos have been viewed over a billion times (ahem, a Billion):