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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Info Blocking Rule is coming 4/5/2021. Here is some last-minute help for health systems
Break down those barriers!
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UCHealth launches OurNotes: how patients co-author clinic progress notes
As of November 2, 70 primary care practices went live with Our Notes. Read more about OurNotes here. Dr. Tom Delbanco and Jan Walker, researchers at Beth Israel Deaconess initiated…
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Information Blocking and the End of Secrecy in Healthcare? (a rant, a talk and a uke song)
What is CT looking at? Could it be … his own radiology image in his patient portal? What does this mean about secrecy in healthcare?
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My Failure Resume, redux
Well, it is time to update my resume. It has been a year, I have failed at more things. I’ve read more failure resumes, and I like some of the…
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All y’all EHR-using folks don’t know how good you have it.
For fun, I’ve set my Zoom background with an actual vintage 1997 photo I took of the medical records room in the basement of University of Colorado Hospital on Ninth…
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Making slides for a talk? How to make them more memorable (advanced tips)
Powerpoint deck on how to give a good powerpoint talk linked here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/pmzloklxmmr5132/2019-0513%20How%20to%20give%20an%20effective%20presentation%20-%20advanced%20-%20CTLin.pptx?dl=0 I’ve been thinking about giving talks backed by powerpoints. Leaving aside the many talks on “Death by…
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New PIGlet? Or, interested in medical informatics? How to start…
Are you a PIGlet? Someone interested in the field of medical informatics? One of our newest informaticists coined the term PIGlet (Physician Informatics Group member). Cute. Increasingly I’m meeting with…
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Getting to Yes (Book review)
OK, nobody has time to read an actual book, so here is William Ury speaking at Creative Mornings about his book. Do you have 30 minutes to be a better…
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What is a Yottabyte, and How Do You Treat It? (a talk)
I gave a keynote speech late last year at Technology Awareness Day, hosted by the University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus about Big Data, Tech acceleration, and Artificial Intelligence, as…
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Optimization Sprints: Improving Clinician Satisfaction and Teamwork by Rapidly Reducing Electronic Health Record Burden (published in Mayo Clinic Proceedings Feb 2019)
Congratulations to Amber Sieja, Katie Markley, Jon Pell, Christine Gonzalez, Brian Redig, Patrick Kneeland, co-authors on our published article in Mayo Clinic Proceedings this week. I’ve spoken of some of…