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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!

Epic go live and Ukulele at Campbell County Health System, Gillette, Wyoming

By CT Lin | July 24, 2025 | 0 Comments

New Epic EHR go live, new song. Today: Campbell County Bighorn Mountain High, with apologies to John Denver. Congratulations to our newest affiliate, Campbell County Health System, we look forward to our close clinical collaboration.

UCHealth joins the Epic COSMOS family. Datathon! Ukulele Parody!

By CT Lin | May 14, 2025 | 0 Comments

This past week, we hosted our Epic Wisconsin colleagues for an immersion trip on Slicer Dicer and COSMOS, as our researchers, data scientists and faculty dove deeply into Slicer Dicer and the finer points of exploring the deidentified Cosmos database of over 300 million patients. We can’t wait to join the growing list of scientists drawing new lessons from a global repository of clinical care experience.

XGM FOMO generator #17. Cassiopeian Jazz ensemble

By CT Lin | April 29, 2025 | 0 Comments

Received an insider hot tip that some Epic folks were doing a jazz concert in Cassiopeia. About a dozen of us found out, including the everywhere-all-at-once Mark Mabus. What a joy to work with Renaissance women and men.

XGM FOMO generator #11. RTBT @UCHealth & Duke and RTBT ukulele song ‘Empty Wallet’

By CT Lin | April 29, 2025 | 0 Comments

How are we doing at showing prescribers and patients their anticipated copay cost for prescription meds? RTBT real time benefit tools are one way we break down information walls.

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)”

ChatGPT EHR ukulele parody, with Orchestra?!

By CT Lin | December 18, 2024 | 0 Comments

Happy holidays! Sweet Caroline repurposed as ChatGPT?! Listen in: Ukulele soloist with Orchestral accompaniment. Will wonders never cease?

Road Signs on the Highway (Ukulele EHR parody)

By CT Lin | December 4, 2024 | 0 Comments

Road Signs on the Highway, apologies to Willie Nelson’s On the Road Again. Ukulele EHR song parody.

RESCUE October: Colorado’s regional Epic UGM: success!

By CT Lin | October 31, 2024 | 0 Comments

What did you miss at the Colorado Regional EHR Seminars? Read on! #epic #RESCUEoctober @uchealth #informaticsiscool

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

“ChatGPT” ukulele parody song @InterSystems Global Summit

By CT Lin | June 13, 2024 | 0 Comments

ChatGPT sung to Neil Diamond’s “Sweet Caroline”. What’s not to like?

Blank Space – AI (apologies to Taylor Swift) EHR ukulele parody – CT Lin

By CT Lin | February 14, 2024 | 0 Comments

A new EHR parody song! This time, come see how the sausage is made and how much was written by GPT and how much by the human collaborators.

“ChatGPT” a new ukulele parody about Generative AI and EHRs by CT Lin

By CT Lin | February 11, 2024 | 0 Comments

What happens when CT Lin allows ChatGPT to help write EHR parody lyrics about ChatGPT? Does the Universe invert itself?

Epic man, singing about immediate release of results, covers Anticipatory Guidance.

By CT Lin | November 28, 2023 | 0 Comments
CT Lin and Jennifer Kemp at RSNA 2023 Chicago

Immediate release of test results, discussed with a radiologist audience: a pro and con debate. What could go wrong? And, of course, the ukulele.

Secure Chat: Ukulele EHR parody to Beatle’s HELP!

By CT Lin | August 25, 2023 | 0 Comments

Welcome home from Epic UGM 2023. Another action packed few days of hob-nobbing with 15,000 of our best Epic customer friends, and learning about each other’s successes, failures, innovations. Thanks to my colleagues Heidi Twedt MD and Deepti Pandita for our session on Growing an Informatics Program. Here are the lyrics: HELP! Secure Chat (apologies … Continue reading “Secure Chat: Ukulele EHR parody to Beatle’s HELP!”

Epic Man: Immediate Release of Test Results and Anticipatory Guidance

By CT Lin | August 24, 2023 | 0 Comments

New performance! Epic Man, the version for Immediate Release of Test results and Anticipatory Guidance. In the era of the 21st Century Cures Act and Information Blocking Statute, how else are we going to each folks what to do? Just put on an Epic UGM 2023 hat, get the 4-strings out, and plug away. Here … Continue reading “Epic Man: Immediate Release of Test Results and Anticipatory Guidance”

Blowing up the training classroom; also putting Roadsigns on the Highway in the EHR

By CT Lin | August 2, 2023 | 0 Comments

Aren’t you frustrated with EHR usability? Don’t you wish you could see just-in-time guidance in the EHR? If the US Highway system can put signs on the highway, why can’t we? Also: ukulele song at the end of the link!

Epic Man – 2023: world premiere at AMIA CIC

By CT Lin | May 26, 2023 | 0 Comments

The latest ukulele parody. Does it mention note bloat? GPT?

My conversation on Designing for Health (podcast and a ukulele song)

By CT Lin | February 8, 2023 | 0 Comments

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 #whyinformatics #hcldr #somedocs