Here are my posts on Informatics and EHR (electronic health records).
XGM FOMO generator #4 (Srinath Adusumalli)
Meeting awesome colleagues including Sri Adusumalli MD, Chief Health Information Officer at University of Pennsylvania Health System.
XGM FOMO generator #3 (smartusers)
Epic SmartUser program is blasting off! More front like clinicians trained in efficiency tips from Epic Wisconsin synchronous webinars with great reviews. We have over 100 at UCHealth and growing quickly, beyond our Physician Builde population. This is a great way to build a bench of EHR expert clinicians. And meeting honor roll is just gravy.
XGM FOMO generator #2 (PAC mentorship program)
Remember to sign up to be a mentee or mentor or peer mentor in the Epic PAC mentorship program. Thanks to David Bar-Shain, Esther Park and Christina Jung for running this program helping so many people.
XGM FOMO generator #1 (colleagues at XGM)
Ice cave breakfast at XGM Verona campus, with Brian Montague MD, Mario Gallegos analyst and Kate Perica PharmD at UCHealth. Ready to learn from the broader Epic community!
Epic XGM 2025 swag for speakers. The best.
If anyone is here in Wisconsin this week, come say hi! I’ll be presenting at 3pm Monday, and my UCHealth Colorado buddies are speaking throughout the week. Catch up soon!
I’m teaching at CILB: Clinical Informatics Leadership Bootcamp in April: Join Me!
Every year, CHIME hosts the Clinical Informatics Leadership Bootcamp, open to physicians, APP’s, nurses, pharmacists and all clinical informaticists looking to grow their skills and leadership styles. Won’t you come join us?
1-Page Handout on High Performance Teams and Book Club (by CT Lin)
What does a high performance team have to do with book club? Come to the Clinical Informatics Leadership Bootcamp to find out!
The Fix for Automation Complacency: The AI Greek Chorus
AI tools have arrived in healthcare, On the surface, this sounds amazing. Who doesn’t want a never-tired, smart medical student at your elbow summarizing, searching, transcribing at your request? How could that not be better than doing all the grunt-work by yourself? Well …
Should Surgeons Embrace the EHR (secret answer: yes!). JAMA Surgery editorial by Yi, Tevis, Lin
Drs. Tevis and Yi, both surgeon informaticists, make the case for more surgeons to get involved in the innovation, design and use of electronic health records to make surgery better. They’ve got a point.
RESCUE October: Colorado’s regional Epic UGM: success!
What did you miss at the Colorado Regional EHR Seminars? Read on! #epic #RESCUEoctober @uchealth #informaticsiscool
How to Survive an EHR Go-Live? Here are 2 examples…
An EHR Go-live is a magnifying glass that brings time-pressure, financial pressure, and strong emotion to hundreds to thousands of individual participants. How do you Survive a Go Live?
Go Slow to Go Fast, or Human Autonomy vs Bot Autonomy
University of Colorado’s General Internal Medicine leaders have decided to block one appointment per half day clinic for all physicians and APP’s. Find out what happened!
In a complex environment, a one-dimensional decision is no decision at all.
In the world of medication alerts, how will you make progress on reducing the burden while maintaining safety and keeping everyone happy? Is it even possible?
I failed to get committee approval. What am I doing wrong?
Start with Why. Bring your Army. Mock it Up. Use these techniques. Make “doing the right thing” easy.
A Systematic Approach to Reducing EHR Inbox Burden (Steps Forward AMA)
Don’t you wish there were a step-by-step guide to fixing that darn Inbasket problem for your burned out EHR colleagues and for yourself? Surprise! Here you go. #AMAstepsforward
“Med Too Soon” a medication dispensing alert, is both terrible and indispensable
Our EMO (electronic medication optimization) committee is dedicated to eliminating alerts that have high “override” rates. Any alert with an override rate more than 90% means that most clinicians seeing the alert ignore the warning. Why, then, when we removed “Med Too Soon” overridden 95% of the time, did some nurses complain?
The Importance of Epic Sprints and other grand gestures (CT Lin on the Medicine Cabinet podcast)
Dr. Liz Harry and I have a chat about using informatics to implement “grand gestures” and “blowing up” existing habits/systems to return joy to the workplace.
AI transparency by using Nutrition Facts as an example
We are all struggling with information transparency as we build and deploy AI models in healthcare. How did you build that? How can I trust it? Why should I trust you? Maybe the FDA nutrition label can teach us something.
Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing!!! 20 years later …
A blast from the past, come back to haunt me. A typing tutor from the early days of EHR.
I’m here at the Oregon HIMSS meeting …
Hi peeps! I’m here at Oregon Chapter HIMSS meeting and can’t wait to chat with our informatics and IT colleagues on the state of AI and all things informatics. Come join us!