Category Archives: Leadership

Life Imitating Art in Leadership

Category : Change Management Healthcare General Leadership

I was invited to speak at the Oregon Association of Hospitals and Health Systems (OAHHS) annual retreat in mid-July in Bend, Oregon. The presentation was on my foundational approach to implementing healthcare analytics which included a discussion of the importance of leadership. Based on a study my firm conducted in 2015, we discovered that leadership was the top challenge to implementing healthcare analytics. Not data. Not talent. Not technology.

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On Seeing the Future of Health IT for Myself

Category : Healthcare Analytics Healthcare General Leadership Population Health Analytics Precision Medicine

SAN FRANCISCO — EHRs are everywhere … no, wait, you already know that. What’s more elusive, though, is exactly what the next generation of health IT will look like. But I caught a glimpse last week at the Healthcare IT News Big Data and Healthcare Analytics Forum.

The usual suspects were on hand: population health and precision medicine, predictive and prescriptive analytics, even natural language processing and, not coincidentally, big data itself.

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It’s Time for Prescribing Leadership in Healthcare

Category : Big Data Continuous Process Improvement Healthcare Analytics Healthcare General Leadership Population Health Analytics

The healthcare industry has been charged with making significant changes in the last few years. From value-based care, to population health and now precision medicine. Unfortunately, many hospital systems will not be successful due to the need for better leadership.

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Putting the Precision into Precision Medicine

Category : Big Data Change Management Electronic Health Records Healthcare Analytics Healthcare Transformation Leadership Population Health Analytics Precision Medicine Speaking Events

I was invited to speak at Oxford Global’s inaugural Precision Medicine Congress, April 25 and 26 in London, England. My topic, “Big Data Analytics for Precision Medicine”, stood out from the other presentations, as intended, since I was one of few non-clinicians or genomics scientists invited to speak at the Congress but believe that as I professor and data scientist I was able to hold my own. As an added bonus, I had to pleasure to meet a ‘Sir’ and a ‘Dame’, which are knighthood titles bestowed on extraordinary subjects, in recognition of their great achievement or outstanding service to the United Kingdom. Both worked in the healthcare industry either in the public or private sectors.

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5 thoughts on the future of healthcare from Cleveland Clinic CEO Dr. Toby Cosgrove

Category : Change Management Electronic Health Records Healthcare General Healthcare Transformation Leadership Physician Engagement

When Delos “Toby” Cosgrove, MD, president and CEO of Cleveland Clinic, was a high school junior, his father took him to visit a family friend who was a college professor.

“Naturally, the conversation turned into, ‘What do we need to do to get Toby into college,'” Dr. Cosgrove told the audience during a keynote at Becker’s Hospital Review’s 8th Annual Meeting in Chicago. Rhoda Weiss, PhD, speaker, author, consultant and co-chair of the meeting, moderated the conversation. The professor said he was not interested in Dr. Cosgrove’s IQ, but rather his GQ —  a term that neither Dr. Cosgrove nor his father had heard before.

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Prescribing Leadership: How Can Leaders Better Prepare for The Dynamic World of Healthcare?

Category : Healthcare General Healthcare Transformation Leadership Speaking Events

When most people think about the challenges of implementing healthcare analytics, they wrongly expect it to be the data, talent or technology.

In a recent study, leadership was actually identified by participants as the top challenge. Unfortunately, the skills that made healthcare leaders successful in the past may not be enough to be successful in the future.

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4 Questions With Rush CIO Dr. Shafiq Rab

Category : Change Management Electronic Health Records Healthcare General Healthcare Transformation Leadership Population Health Analytics

Dr. Shafiq Rab, CIO of Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, uses his background in public health to inform his IT vision.

Dr. Rab, who completed his medical degree and internal medicine residency at Karachi, Pakistan-based Dow Medical College, had his interest in public health piqued during one of his first physician jobs. While treating an urban squatters settlement in Pakistan, he worked with non-governmental organizations to address the infant mortality rate, mainly by bringing clean drinking water to its residents.

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BIG DATA & HEALTHCARE ANALYTICS: A HIMSS EVENT

Category : Big Data Leadership Population Health Population Health Analytics Speaking Events

Please join me at my leadership presentation for this conference.

SAN FRANCISCO, CA

MAY 15-16, 2017

This is How Providers Can Make Social Media a Relevant Strategy

Category : Healthcare General Leadership

Social media represents a great opportunity for establishing a one-on-one relationship with the patient, aka the healthcare consumer, directed by the healthcare organization that breaks from the pack, by creating a social media healthcare experience that is memorable, exceeding an individual or families experience and expectations.

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The Critical Role of Physician CEO

Category : Healthcare General Leadership

Physicians are considered to be the ideal leaders in healthcare as they have been through tough training for many years and they are in charge of 100% of the healthcare dollars spent. They know medicine but unfortunately, they lack management skills such as strategic planning, negotiation, budget and financial decisions.

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