Work-in-progress: Reducing Alert Fatigue with our EMO committee

Want to see how the sausage is made? Here are some tidbits from our recent EMO discussion. Yes, our committee is named Electronic Medication (warning) Optimization. Who doesn't want the "EMO notes"?

Simple vs complicated vs complex decisions: a leader’s approach (HBR and Colin Powell) and a reflection

How does electronic Surgical Case Request and electronic Informed Consent illustrate decision-making in complex environments? Here is some of my own heartburn. Also, what does Colin Powell have to say about decision-making?

APSO Notes: what Machiavelli taught me

What does a book from the 15th century, my own pediatric record, and APSO notes have to do with modern informatics?

Machiavelli, “The Spare” and Medical Informatics? A reflection

What does "The Prince", Prince Harry's new book, and Medical Informatics have in common?

CT Lin’s CMIO interview with SeamlessMD

Thanks to Joshua Liu and Alan Sardana for a great chat spanning decades of my informatics career. We cover: My ukulele origin story My failure resume examples How AI is nibbling at healthcare P-values versus Change Management How CT Lin ruined healthcare https://seamless.md/blog/tdp-96-uchealths-cmio-dr-ct-lin-measuring-and-benchmarking-clinician-nps-augmenting-cds-with-ai-and-making-clinical-informatics-fun-ft-ukulele

My conversation on Designing for Health (podcast and a ukulele song)

What does mindfulness mean to a CMIO? Also, patient engagement, information transparency, and FAILURE? And finally, gratitude. Listen all the way through for a special treat. #Podcast #healthcare #healthIT #hitsm #whyinformatics #hcldr #somedocs

Swapping or Merging EHR’s? Don’t Make Me Start with a Blank chart! Or Should We?

You're kidding right? No one wants to start with a BLANK EHR screen when seeing patients. There HAS to be a way to automatically move data from ___ EHR (fill in name) to ___ EHR (fill in name), RIGHT? RIGHT?

Grow humans, not IT employees (PIG-let series)

What do the books Good to Great (Collins) and How to Raise an Adult (Lythcott-Haims) have to do with Informatics? Don't you wish you knew... (UPDATE! Link to Sinek's Infinite game 2 minute summary)

Help! Secure Chat in Epic, a ukulele EHR parody

The latest ukulele song. Yet another illustration of how Culture Eats Technology for Lunch.

How to write an effective 1-PAGER (Informatics PIG-let series)

Ever done this? You have a major presentation, and as the expert, you want to anticipate ALL questions, so you write a 17 page white paper to CRUSH ALL DISSENT. HA! You think, TAKE THAT! I'm sure to win everyone over.