Category: Navigating the Code

In the middle of World War II, the U.S. Air Tactical Command of the Army Air Force – the modern-day Air Force was not established until 1947 – met with Lockheed Aircraft Company to express …

Peter Drucker, the father of modern management, believed that managing change required the first step of understanding and defining an objective and then linking it to a strategy. Well-thought-out mission statements are a great source …

Let’s talk a bit more about change. There are two approaches to change. Change that manages us or our management of change. Examining the current state of healthcare, we quickly notice that change mostly manages …

In my last podcast, I shared with you my thoughts on both insistent and disruptive change and how both could be positive or negative. Change can sometimes do a 180-degree turn and become the other. …

When most people think about change, their attitude varies from sighs to resignation to resistance. We rarely view change positively; we tend not to look forward to its influences. Yet with change being a constant …

The electronic health record gets a bum rap. We blame it for increasing healthcare costs, poor clinical outcomes, and clinician burnout. While EHR vendors have some responsibility for all these adverse effects, they are not …

The emergence of the digital age in healthcare, dating back to the mid to later years of the 20th century, was not greeted with joy and accolades but rather a great deal of skepticism. That …

In the 1950s, computers were mammoth machines, rightly thought to provide utilitarian services like the electric company or public works. The field of informatics launched in the 1950s. The American Medical Informatics Association defines it: …

In a previous NtC episode, I shared my thoughts on the need for a new normal in healthcare to address the challenges and, to quote Hamlet, its “sea of troubles.” And creating a new normal …