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Effective leadership isn’t about telling people what you think they need. It’s about “listening, communicating, and serving the organization,” says Dr. John Halamka, who reflects on his first few weeks at Mayo Clinic.
Forget what you think you know about platforms. What it’s really about, says Dr. John Halamka, is creating “a single, managed and well supported front door which enables quality, safety and efficiency solutions to be deployed more quickly.”
What if there was a Platform that could “radically shorten the time to evaluate emerging companies and create an ‘innovation factory’ for collaboration?” Dr. John Halamka believes it exists, and has announced a major move to get a closer look.
Although remote monitoring has been shown to improve outcomes, it remains a tough sell to many providers, says John Halamka, who breaks down some recent findings on this complex issue.
It may seem premature to suggest that thin client, cloud-centric computing is the future, “but from a security, cost, and maintainability perspective, it certainly seems like the right direction,” says Dr. John Halamka.
