Foreword All businesses have a product which they sell and hospitals, even non-profits, are no exception to that rule. Their product? Beds. Oh, sure they have lots of human beings that poke you, prod you, care for you and feed… Read more ›
A picture paints a thousand words They say that a picture paints a thousand words. If that were true, you should be able to describe a picture with a thousand words. Right? Like you, I have no idea who “they”… Read more ›
One of my fondest memories of early years in school was Show and Tell. For those not familiar with the concept, students could bring 1 item to school with them and show it off to the class. As you can… Read more ›
Recently my colleague, friend and all around nice guy David Freriks asked me to help him “analyze” the data available for Peloton. As you can imagine two data dorks like us had a lot of fun trying to create an… Read more ›
Politics is a topic we are supposed to stay away from. It turns friends into enemies. Plus House Resolutions are just a bunch of boring text who has time for all that jazz. Certainly won’t find any in other data… Read more ›
Wait a minute. Data Governance is just a theory. A concept. It’s abstract. You can’t visualize it. Stick with me for a few minutes and see if I can’t prove you wrong. As I travel the country speaking, I put… Read more ›
We spend 99% of our time on the word “intelligence” completely ignore the primary word “actionable.” Read more ›
Total Immersion How cool is this image of a physician totally immersed in patient data in this virtual world? As soon as the coolness wheres off your brain is left scrambling for reality. Can we really do this? Would it… Read more ›
Among the millions of great nuggets I’ve picked up from Robert Pearl in his awesome work “Mistreated: Why we think we’re getting good health care and why we’re usually not” one was especially memorable and challenging. He shared a story about… Read more ›
Great People One of the lessons in life that I’ve found to be very true was that you should surround yourself with great people. Gotta say I’m so amazingly blessed to have been able to learn from some of the… Read more ›
