Here are my posts on Informatics and EHR (electronic health records).
Dig Deeper: A Case Report of Finding (and Fixing) the Root Cause of Add-On Laboratory Failures
Excess venipunctures can be caused by Electronic Health Record-related factors. By doing a root cause analysis, we eliminated about 1000 unnecessary blood draws monthly. Cool informatics work by smart colleagues.
Help! Secure Chat in Epic, a ukulele EHR parody
The latest ukulele song. Yet another illustration of how Culture Eats Technology for Lunch.
90 x 4, don’t bother me no more (ukulele)
Thanks to Chris Sinsky’s saying “90×4, don’t bother me no more”. Here’s a ukulele ditty go along with that. We’re making these changes to our inbasket for noncontrolled, maintenance meds.
Tips on Mentorship (a conversation)
The PAC mentor program I recently had the chance to sit down with David Bar-Shain MD, of MetroHealth, who single-handedly started the a mentorship program in the PAC (Physician Advisory Council), hosted at Epic in Verona Wisconsin. The program has been running for 4 years now and has matched over 70 mentor-mentee pairs, over 170 … Continue reading “Tips on Mentorship (a conversation)”
Where do you keep the (informatics) pixie dust? (borrowed from NYTimes)
This is hilarious: angsty flowcharts to help guide readers. Must-read article. Thank you to Fawzy Taylor, whose brainchild this is. Fantastic in so many ways. Why can’t we build our informatics and our internal education this way? For example, for newbie informaticists, how about my book-recs graphic above, based on the same idea? CMIO’s take? … Continue reading “Where do you keep the (informatics) pixie dust? (borrowed from NYTimes)”
Door-dash ride along, a parent’s and informaticist’s view
Ever wonder what the gig economy is all about? What is the experience of drivers, interacting with restaurants, with traffic, with the AI-in-the-cloud, with customers? My son recently turned to this service to make some cash prior to his upcoming trip. Wonder of wonders, he offered to let me come ride-along for a few hours … Continue reading “Door-dash ride along, a parent’s and informaticist’s view”
City Scooters: an informatics viewpoint
A colleague and I were recently making fun of tourists and others riding the city scooters around Seattle and other large cities. Nearly no one was wearing helmets, they’re zipping in and out of traffic, going up against SUV’s and 16 wheelers. Just asking for it. Now, it is true that Seattle has some the … Continue reading “City Scooters: an informatics viewpoint”
Ethics Grand Rounds: The Ethical Issues with Open Notes and Open Results (CT Lin @ uchealth)
Hear about: Anticipatory Guidance, Cancer Diagnoses revealed online, Risk of marginalization, the Ethics of Ethics notes, and more…
My newest ukulele EHR parody song: Inbasket Dynamite
Has anyone ever written a K-pop anthem into an EHR parody? Is it possible to set an hyperobject to music? Regrettably, someone has tried.
Patients View their Own Radiology Images Online: first published experience (UCHealth)
What uses did they find for these images? Does UCHealth recommend this practice? Did CT Lin get fired as a result of these actions? #hcldr #whyinformatics #hitsm #hotoffthepress
HIMSStv: video interview about innovation and RxRevu, real-time benefits at UCHealth
We talk about EHR optimization, clinician burnout, real-time prescription cost data
“The useful part of a pot is where there is no pot” -Audrey Tang, Digital Minister of Taiwan
Hollowed out
clay makes a pot.
Where the pot’s not
Is where its useful.
Clinical Informatics Leadership Bootcamp, CHIME, Salt Lake, May 2022 (I’m teaching!)
What will CT Lin be teaching at the next Informatics Leadership Bootcamp? And, will there be ukulele?
A picture of change (and inspiration for informatics. NYTimes)
From the Metropolitan Museum of Art via NYTimes: a Japanese Print to teach us about the modern world
The Pyramid of Possibility: explaining informatics to others
Use this to explain to your colleagues that some requests are easy and others might just be impossible.
Blowing apart EHR classroom training, TikTok, Microlearning (and a uke song)
What does TikTok have to do with Classroom Training? And what is “so last year” with EHR onboarding? And which uke song is up next?
CMIO 3.0, according to Healthcare Innovation (and quotes from me)
Hear from Drs. Pageler, Hanson, DePuy (and me) about how the CMIO role has evolved and where we think this role is headed.
Project Joy and reducing the EHR burden for nurses
Congratulations to our own Bonnie Adrian, PhD, with amazing work to reduce the nurse EHR burden. The article highlights the improvements we made in Project Joy.
Parkview Epic go live 3/10. A panoply of ukulele parody songs?
Funny how after the hard work, the long planning hours, the anxiety about building a robust system for colleagues to use to care for patients, it boils down to this. At least in my world. Recounting our go lives, in our 12-hospital pluse 4-affiliate-hospital system on our Epic EHR instance, this is my 8th hospital … Continue reading “Parkview Epic go live 3/10. A panoply of ukulele parody songs?”