Free Self-Assessment · From The Diagnostician

What is your informatics actually worth?

A self-guided, in-depth assessment of your organization's current health — built directly on the methodology of The Diagnostician. For modern healthcare executives, physician leaders, and applied clinical informatics professionals.

This is the History — the first step of any honest workup ~20 minutes
Your Report Includes
  • Diagnosis across 12 strategic pillars
  • Dollar-impact estimate per pillar, anchored to your NPR
  • Top 5–10 opportunities ranked for your context
  • Honest risk + confidence flags on each
  • The published evidence behind every number

The Approach

This is a self-guided, in-depth assessment of your organization's current health, built directly on the methodology of my book, The Diagnostician. It is written for modern healthcare executives, physician leaders, and applied clinical informatics professionals.

I'll walk you through the twelve strategic pillars common to every healthcare organization — and put a dollar figure on the opportunity each one carries when your clinical informatics is sound, led by a trained and empowered CMIO. For each pillar I'll surface the metrics most amenable to informatics-led impact, the published evidence behind them, and what they could mean for your bottom line.

Think of this as the History — the first step of any honest workup. When you finish, you'll have everything you need to start the boardroom conversation and budget the right strategic initiatives.

We'll both receive a copy. I won't open mine until you reach out and tell me you're ready for an engagement. At that point I'll come onsite, find your chief complaints, complete the organizational physical exam, and read the laboratory results your data already tells.

My engagement is the exam, the treatment plan, and the therapy itself. Treatment can take the form of focused consultation, interim executive leadership embedded with your teams, or my full team delivered to your problem under my direction.

You're the patient. What therapy are you willing to follow?
— Thomas Powell, MD MS
Author of The Diagnostician · Founder, CMIO, LLC

Diagnose first. Prescribe second.

The methodology behind The Diagnostician applied to your own organization. Each principle below shows up in the report you receive.

01

Symptoms first, not diagnosis

This assessment doesn't diagnose or treat. It gives you a solid set of symptoms to target — the dollars, the dependencies, the published evidence. The diagnosis and the therapy come from a real engagement, only if you want one.

02

Anchor in your numbers

Every dollar estimate uses your Net Patient Revenue, your volumes, your baselines. No generic ranges, no vendor math.

03

Cite the evidence

Every effect size in your report is footnoted to peer-reviewed literature or industry benchmark. You can defend every number.

04

Honest tiers

We tell you which KPIs informatics actually drives (Tier 1) and which it merely supports (Tier 3). No overclaiming.

It's free — but not anonymous.

  • Your report is personalized. The Diagnostician needs enough information about your organization to make the numbers land.
  • The Diagnostician keeps a copy — but won't open it until you reach out and tell me you're ready for an engagement. Your report is yours first.
  • I only take on patients who want my care. The right time to reach out is whenever you're ready — before the assessment, after the assessment, or never. Your call.
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