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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Work-in-progress. Improving Patient AND Physician Understanding of Radiology Reports
Help us solve a conundrum! We want to teach physicians just-in-time. However, this may worsen a patient’s understanding of a radiology report. Can we make this a win-win?
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Information Blocking / Sharing NEW UPDATE summer 2023
Any health systems still struggling with decisions about sharing Open Notes and Open Test Results, and how to build a win-win-win relationship between physicians/APP’s, patients and hospital leadership? Here you…
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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…
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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…
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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?
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Machiavelli, “The Spare” and Medical Informatics? A reflection
What does “The Prince”, Prince Harry’s new book, and Medical Informatics have in common?
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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: 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
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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…
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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…
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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…