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Dale Sanders, CIO mentor and senior technology advisor for the Cayman Islands HSA, tackles data warehousing by providing answers to key questions, from what type of governance structure is needed to which core dimensions of analysis are most important. He also breaks down the four data models and talks about buy-in [...]
Three years ago, I wrote the blog below to describe our intentions and aspirations for improving the current state of affairs for our Cerner applications in the Cayman Islands National Health System. The phrase “EMR Optimization” is now the common term to describe our undertaking; fixing a very bad implementation is the more frank description. [...]
The New England Journal of Medicine recently published an excellent article on patient satisfaction and outcomes data (“The Patient Experience and Health Outcomes”). My Toyota maintenance guy sends me a customer satisfaction email automatically after each “clinical encounter” with my cars. He asks me to rate the quality of the service he provided as well [...]
I’ve only had one mentor in my life. And I emphasize ‘only’ because it’s sad that we don’t have a culture that encourages mentorship until the day we die. It’s worth noting, some people are not willing to be mentored; and some people who claim or aspire to be mentors, are motivated by delusions of self-grandeur [...]
On Sept. 13, HealthLeaders Magazine published an excellent article with interviews from several healthcare visionaries, entitled, “Metrics that Matter”. The comments in the article subtly underscored some very important principles and patterns affecting healthcare analytics and data warehousing, especially the manner in which analytics evolves within the culture of an organization. It is critically important [...]
Yesterday was the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Antietam where fellow countryman killed 23,000 Americans in less than two days. Up to this point, Lincoln’s decision-making motives in the war focused primarily on retaining the Union — fighting secessionists — not so much about the abolition of slavery. He didn’t want to be known [...]
On my LinkedIn profile, there’s a blurb in my bio that generates some fun conversations. That blurb is: “In 1988, he hacked into the national nuclear warning system from a public pay phone.” At the request of several friends and colleagues, here’s the story behind that blurb… From 1983-1991, I was an information systems officer [...]
Suggestive Analytics. The power of suggestion meets the power of data. But, before we talk about that, let’s contrast it to the buzz phrase of the day — Predictive Analytics. I’d like to have a dime for every white paper, blog, journal article and marketing brochure I’ve seen in the past six months that cheer [...]
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