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I have a couple of “Life is Good” t-shirts, one with a runner and one with a water skier. Life has been particularly good as I reached my 50th birthday and served as HIMSS Chair for the Annual Conference this year. We are creating the health information highway and I recognize there are so many […]
Our eldest child’s godmother used to say, “You can stand in the gap for about three months, but you can’t do it forever.” A parent of three, she was referring to the times she and her husband worked at a crazed pace to earn income and participate in community activities. We all know there are […]
In the early years of Partners HealthCare’s IS Department, John Glaser and Mary Finlay periodically invited 25 staff members to dinner at our corporate headquarters on the 11th floor of the Prudential Center in Boston. When I was invited in the fall of 1998, nine others rsvp’d and six of us showed up. Unfortunately, Mary Finlay […]
As CIOs, we need reliability and, in addition to EHR uptime, email is perhaps the platform that affects our credibility the most. Many of us are enjoying the explosion of intuitive and helpful consumer devices and applications. I like that my Garmin GPS watch can upload my runs to Endomondo, which automatically syncs with the […]
I had the nicest office I’ve ever had. It had big windows overlooking Boston Harbor and the city skyline. Earlier this summer, I watched “Old Ironsides,” the USS Constitution, make its bi-annual turn-around in the harbor. I didn’t spend much time sitting there looking out the window, but it was very nice. Two months ago, […]
