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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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 …
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Picking and solving hard problems (Stanford Magazine)
Problem Solving, and getting better at it, is a constant struggle. With tech acceleration we will be asked to solve more problems faster than ever. How do you approach it?…
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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?
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NerdMD efficiency unlocked (podcast) — interviews CT Lin
Thanks for Adam Carewe and Dale Gold for a fun conversation about informatics, complainers, AI and a hodgepodge of hodge of other topics. https://rewskidotcom.substack.com/p/ep-30-ai-songwriting-and-storytelling?trk=feed-detail_main-feed-card_reshare_ingested-content-summary-external-video-content
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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?
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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.
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New PIGlet? How do I get up to speed in Informatics?
I received an email from a physician colleague interested in Medical Informatics and wanted to know “where do I go to learn more?” Firstly, you should know I make terrible…
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Your lack of planning is not my emergency
As an informaticist, do you ever feel like you’re taken for granted? Do people miss their deadline of getting information to you on time, so that you could build the…
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Information Blocking / Sharing, Immediate Release of Test Results to Patients: March 2024 update
The latest chapter in this evolving story is that state governments are passing regulations in reaction to the federal Info Blocking statute. Humans are such complex organisms. Meantime, our anticipatory…