Two articles caught my attention this week amid of the flurry of news about jobs, the market and the economy. The first, Not retiring at 65: Physician goes from anti-EHR to pro-ACO , was about a 65 year old physician in Tucson who is not only delaying...(read more)

The view from my room high atop the Bella Sky Comwell Hotel pretty much symbolizes what my past two days have been like at the World of Health IT Conference in Copenhagen – whirlwind .  Well, actually the view is of a gigantic wind turbine that supplies...(read more)

Last Wednesday, I had the pleasure of providing a keynote address at the Group Practice Improvement Network (GPIN) conference that was held in Seattle.  I say “pleasure” for two reasons.  Unlike most of the conferences I speak at these days...(read more)

A public-private partnership known as Research4Life that is sponsored in part by Microsoft, has been commended by the Global Business Coalition on Health and will be honored during that organization’s annual GBCHealth conference and awards dinner in New...(read more)

As someone whose entire career has been steeped in clinical medicine and technology, I’m a big fan of the American publication, Hospitals and Health Networks .  I especially like reading the commentaries on the publication’s digital feed, H&HN...(read more)

This week I’m writing from Gothenburg, Sweden, where I am holding meetings with Microsoft customers and partners.  I am also doing a keynote address at Vitalis , a conference billed as the largest health IT event in Scandinavia.  This isn’t...(read more)