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Healthcare Can Be Uncaring – Part One
Too often, I hear from patients and families that healthcare is uncaring. Healthcare can seem uncaring because of the obstacles that block the path to wellness and healing. Unfortunately, patients and...
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If Aliens Were Destroying Our Planet, We’d Unite Overnight. Wouldn’t We?
Imagine waking up tomorrow to news that an alien civilization has begun attacking Earth. They weren’t firing lasers or dropping bombs. Instead, they were heating the atmosphere, acidifying oceans,...
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Contentment – My New Favorite Word
Yesterday, I was invited by a neighborhood friend to a women’s softball game in Austin. Our team won. The highlight of the day was our conversation driving to the game where we talked about mortality...
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Why Can’t Patients Have Their Own Healthcare Identifier?
For decades, Americans have been required to have a Social Security Number (SSN). We use it for taxes, employment, banking, retirement, and countless forms of identification. Yet accurately...
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AI and the Future of Work: Will AI Take Our Jobs or Give Us Better Ones?
The title question is being raised by employees and those seeking employment in every sector. Recent college and university commencement speeches mentioning artificial intelligence have, in some...
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The AI Frenzy in Healthcare: Real Momentum, Real Risk, Real Leadership Required
Is the healthcare sector experiencing AI frenzy? Emphatically, yes. If you were around for the dot-com boom (and bust), today’s AI surge in healthcare should feel uncomfortably familiar. We’re...
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The Crisis on Campus: Reframing Mental Health for a Generation in Need
I just finished reading a brilliant and very disturbing article about the growing mental health crisis on university campuses. In an article published by The Hill on March 18, 2026, author Lex Lonas...
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Why Every Healthcare Strategy Is Now (or Should Be) a Digital Strategy
Healthcare leaders today are operating in one of the most complex environments the industry has ever faced. Margins are thin, workforce shortages persist, cybersecurity threats are constant, and...
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Innovation in Healthcare: A Pragmatist’s Perspective
Innovation in Healthcare IT: From Ideas to Impact Innovation has become one of the most overused and misunderstood words in healthcare. We talk about it constantly. We celebrate it publicly. We fund...
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Embracing Change: Choose the Future You Want Instead of the One Others Predict
The internet never forgets. It collects our photos, posts, searches, purchases, likes, and locations. Algorithms use our digital trail to predict what we might do next, what we’ll click on, what...
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What Will Matter to Health IT Leaders in 2026: A New Era of Digital Stewardship
If history teaches us anything, it’s that healthcare does not move in straight lines. It lurches, leaps, and occasionally gets shoved into its future. We’ve all seen that firsthand. I’ve often joked...
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Get me a Broom
Recently, I watched a relatively brief documentary story on Texas Country Reporter about Nam Joti Kaur Khalsa, a broom maker in Austin, TX who creates brooms by hand. She espoused a philosophy about...
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Vision is Important – Focus is Essential
Focus Over Vision: Why Attention on Objectives Matters Most in Healthcare We live in an age of constant distraction. We all wrestle with one or more inboxes that are usually overfull. We are barraged...
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Living and Leading in Chaotic and Uncertain Times
I’ve written before about what it means to lead healthcare IT through chaos and uncertainty. What strikes me now is how often those same themes come up in everyday conversations, no matter who I’m...
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From Healing Hands to Healing Hearts: What the Nation Can Learn from Healthcare
The Case for Compassion, Mercy, Empathy, and Trust This blog is a reminder to myself on my quest to be a better me. Healthcare is more than a profession. It’s a calling. For many of us, it’s a path...
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The Rise of Care at Home: Healthcare’s Most Important Shift Is Already Underway
One of the most profound shifts in modern healthcare isn’t happening inside hospitals or doctor’s offices, it’s happening at home. Across the country, health systems, payers, providers, and tech...
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Food is Medicine: A Vital Movement at a Policy Crossroads
Health policy has profound short and long-term effects on the health of our nation and the world. This blog explores one viewpoint on only one of them – Food is Medicine – and is not intended as...
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Mental Health Month 2025 – In Every Story, There’s Strength: Facing Mental...
May is Mental Health Awareness Month – a time to take action, raise our voices, and help raise awareness about the importance of mental health. This year’s theme, “In Every Story, There’s Strength,”...
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No Mission, No Margin
No Mission, No Margin: Balancing Financial Stability and Compassion in Healthcare Too often in my career, I’ve heard leaders in healthcare say, “No margin, no mission”. During my tenure at Texas Health...
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Leading Through the Storm: Strategies for Resilient and Adaptative Healthcare...
In the fast-paced and ever-changing world of healthcare, uncertainty is the only certainty. From global pandemics to cybersecurity threats, regulatory shifts, and economic downturns, healthcare IT...
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