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It was a long but productive 24 hours. A team of us from University of Michigan Health System flew to Durham, NC, on Tuesday evening, spent a 10-hour day on Wednesday at Duke Medicine, and then flew home. It was a site visit aimed toward learning from each other and determining opportunities for collaboration. UMHS […]
“Huddles, not just another meeting;” I wrote that when we started our twice-a-week IT leadership huddle in April. How true! And as of three weeks ago, we have another leadership huddle experiment in progress – the daily hospital leadership huddle. It is part of our developing lean Daily Management System. Our Acting CEO and COO for the University of […]
Last Saturday was a wake-up call that fall is here. With morning temps under 50, it was fleece time. It was also the first home football game for the University of Michigan under new coach Jim Harbaugh. Blue and maize was everywhere I went in Ann Arbor. Our new coach and football team delivered a resounding […]
Except for maybe start-up technology companies, there isn’t an IT department anywhere that has an open checkbook. In health care, we know all too well the need to manage costs while answering what seems to be an insatiable demand for technology solutions. CIOs need to understand the technical debt of a large application portfolio and the […]
One in nine people in the U.S have used it. Its reach extends to 236 countries. In 2014, 2.2 million new people joined communities. Three hundred thousand people visit every day. More than 72,000 families created a website in 2014. Any idea what I’m referring to? Those are some of the key stats for a social […]
