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  “Things get done only if the data we gather can inform and inspire those in a position to make a difference.” – Mike Schmoker, former school administrator, English teacher and football coach, author. In the first of our series...

“To them though, not to us, we were just a catalyst for their imagination.” – Donald Sutherland With the upcoming mandates towards value-based healthcare reimbursements, patient care delivery and purchasing models, healthcare organizations will have to assume accountability towards...

Last Friday, it was a little after 8:00am and as I was sitting in a coffee bar in the A terminal of the Atlanta airport, after my scheduled Thursday 9:35pm departure to Syracuse was rescheduled for a 9:11am departure...

The road to a failed value-based program is paved with good intentions.  Many ‘fee-for-service to value-based’ transformations stall because leaders can’t show their stakeholders the value of their strategy.  Patiently building a strong business case can prove return on...

After spending decades in roles associated with deploying healthcare information technology solutions in both acute care and ambulatory settings, I’d venture to say that it’s relatively straightforward to make a judgement on technical success. But after that evaluation, customers...

I joined the Holon Solutions team of innovators almost a year ago.  I was impressed with the healthcare technology they created to solve an old problem: interoperability.  A result of the old problem: frustrated clinical users – spending more...

I have been in healthcare information technology for over twenty years.  It’s been quite the evolution in a very short time – from all paper to Electronic Medical Records, to Health Information Exchanges, to realizing a fully interoperable patient...

As we turn the page to the next chapter of blog series with the Holon executive team, we solicited the help of population health expert, value-based care analytics strategist and prolific social media expert Gabe Orthous, to discuss the...

In recent Holon blogs, our team has written about the innate design theory we have around scaling and capacity. We’ve addressed it from perspectives of people, of process, and of course, architecture and deployment of our solutions. Hopefully, readers...

In my last blog, Always be Learning, I shared my top take-aways (or pennies) from attending three healthcare conferences in three weeks.  In this round, I wanted to share some conversations I’ve had that inspired me as we tackle...