Speaking

Talks that send executives home with a method

Keynotes, board retreats, grand rounds and fellowship didactics. Every talk ends with Bedside Questions the audience can put to their own organization on Monday.

Keynote

Stop Refilling the Prescription

For twenty years healthcare has treated its symptoms with technology, and none of it came after a diagnosis. A clinical workup of the health system, and why a one-point budget line moves a thirty-four-point burden.

CMIO & informatics

The CMIO You Have on Paper

Name, form and function. The six conditions that separate a working CMIO from a title, a live screen of the room, and five ways to fill the seat.

AI & safety

The AI Formulary

No hospital adds a drug without a formulary. Governing models the way we govern drugs: inventory, local validation, a package insert, and a named person who can stop it.

Boards

Bedside Questions for the Boardroom

Twelve questions trustees can ask about technology, each with a factual answer the organization already owns.

Safety & quality

Alert Fatigue Is a Patient-Safety Diagnosis

Why the alert library grows and never shrinks, and the retirement rules that give clinicians back their attention.

Fellows & residents

The Clinical Method, Turned on the Institution

A didactic for informatics fellows and future physician executives. Free to ACGME fellowship programs.

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