Welcome! If you’re a newbie informaticist, OR interested in growing your skills in informatics. In our organization, our Large PIG (physician/ APP informatics group) sometimes ads new members, hence, the colloquial “PIG-let”. Here, I collate my blog posts describing a particular skill or tool or idea that has helped me in my career.
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Advance copy of CT’s book is posted on Amazon: free for next 5 days
The title: “It’s Not About the Tech: From Potholes to Piglets, Real Life Lessons in Health IT” It is a distillation of 30 years of lessons from working in informatics…
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Amplify 26 FOMO gen. Jill Rushton-Miller
I caught up with Jill Rushton-Miller MD
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CT Lin is writing a book! Are you interested?
The title: “It’s Not About the Tech: From Potholes to Piglets, Real Life Lessons in Health IT” It is a distillation of 30 years of lessons from working in informatics…
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Epic UGM 2025 FOMO generator, #final. PIGlet Book Club aftermath! And new ukulele song: The Times They Are a’Changin’
Thanks to the hundreds of attendees, we now have a Wisdom of Crowds idea about skills and books to recommend to newbie informaticists. Take a look! Also, a world premiere…
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Upcoming UGM 2025 talk: Grow your own PIGlets – and a new ukulele song parody
Grow your own PIGlets! A book club and 1-year curriculum to train newbie informaticists. Come for talk, stay for the ukulele. We will also be polling the audience for their…
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Are you stuck? Is it time for Subterranean Informatics?
Sometimes, you have to go underground and do something smaller to make progress.
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Sepsis, AI and the Centaur. Also a discussion of Automation Complacency at iPractise (CTL talk)
I-PrACTISE – Improving Primary Care Through Industrial and Systems Engineering Thanks to Dr. Beasley at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s lecture series iPractise:Improving Primary Care Through Industrial and Systems Engineering (I-PrACTISE)…
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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…
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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!
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Basic: the most consequential programming language (WIRED)
Yes, I wrote a 2 line BASIC program in middle school. Was that the pinnacle of my programming career? Read on …








