PIGlets

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.

Epic UGM 2025 FOMO generator, #final. PIGlet Book Club aftermath! And new ukulele song: The Times They Are a’Changin’

By CT Lin | August 21, 2025 | 0 Comments

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 ukulele song!

Upcoming UGM 2025 talk: Grow your own PIGlets – and a new ukulele song parody

By CT Lin | August 6, 2025 | 4 Comments

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 best recommended books, so come back for the crowd-sourced compilation!

Are you stuck? Is it time for Subterranean Informatics?

By CT Lin | March 26, 2025 | 0 Comments

Sometimes, you have to go underground and do something smaller to make progress.

Sepsis, AI and the Centaur. Also a discussion of Automation Complacency at iPractise (CTL talk)

By CT Lin | March 19, 2025 | 0 Comments

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) I enjoyed speaking with the thoughtful group of clinicians, engineers. See the website above, my talk was on 3/14/25 and use the password on that … Continue reading “Sepsis, AI and the Centaur. Also a discussion of Automation Complacency at iPractise (CTL talk)”

I’m teaching at CILB: Clinical Informatics Leadership Bootcamp in April: Join Me!

By CT Lin | March 2, 2025 | 0 Comments

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)

By CT Lin | March 2, 2025 | 0 Comments

What does a high performance team have to do with book club? Come to the Clinical Informatics Leadership Bootcamp to find out!

Basic: the most consequential programming language (WIRED)

By CT Lin | January 15, 2025 | 0 Comments

Yes, I wrote a 2 line BASIC program in middle school. Was that the pinnacle of my programming career? Read on …

Picking and solving hard problems (Stanford Magazine)

By CT Lin | January 8, 2025 | 0 Comments

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? Do you have a framework. Here’s one that might work.

How to Survive an EHR Go-Live? Here are 2 examples…

By CT Lin | October 30, 2024 | 0 Comments

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?

NerdMD efficiency unlocked (podcast) — interviews CT Lin

By CT Lin | September 18, 2024 | 0 Comments

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