Healthcare is entering a new era. The organizations that thrive won't simply adopt new technologies. They'll rethink how care is delivered, how decisions are made, and how people, technology, and strategy come together to create lasting value.
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Healthcare organizations are rarely limited by a lack of ideas. They're limited by the gap between strategy and execution. Closing it starts with choosing the right problems to solve, assessing tradeoffs honestly, and building the structure needed to scale. That's the work I find interesting.
I've practiced across the country, inside very different systems and environments — in part as a military spouse, which gave me an early and repeated view of how differently healthcare actually works from place to place. I now lead enterprise-wide initiatives on the national informatics team at a 150+ hospital health system. That breadth shapes how I think: I know what's structural and what's fixable, and what's worth fighting for.
I take new technology seriously when it demonstrably improves outcomes — for patients and for the clinicians caring for them. And I care deeply about what sits at the center of all of it: the patient-provider relationship.
"Technology is the easy part. People are the work."
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Clinician resistance to a new tool is data, not noise. Sometimes it's poor design: the tool doesn't fit the workflow. Sometimes it's distrust of the institution deploying it, or of what the tool puts at risk: judgment, standing, control. Either way, a failed launch doesn't reset to zero. It erodes trust, and trust is what every future initiative runs on.
Every alert, click, and screen transition carries a cognitive tax that nobody measures. A clinical tool earns its place in the workflow only when it surfaces the right information at the right moment, faster than the current way of working. Anything less is a cost the clinician pays — and someone should be accounting for that.
There are now more AI tools than any health system can responsibly absorb. The most valuable skill in technology strategy is no longer the ability to pilot a new tool — it is the willingness to decline one that doesn't align to strategy, and to hold that line under pressure.
Builders and clinicians speak different languages — and most health technology fails in the translation. Getting it right requires someone who has sat on both sides of the table, who understands what care actually looks like at 2 a.m. and how to translate that into something a product team can actually build. That translation work is not a soft skill. It is the hardest part of the job.
Burnout is not a resilience problem. It is a design problem—the accumulated weight of systems that demand more than they give back. The health systems that will retain their clinicians are the ones that treat cognitive load as an organizational responsibility, not an individual one. Enabling people to do their best work, with less friction, is not just a wellness initiative. It is a competitive advantage.
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I write on clinical practice, health technology strategy, and organizational change — the terrain where most of the real work happens. My Substack, Connective Tissue, is built on the idea that real innovation happens in the gaps between disciplines: where technology meets workflows, where strategy meets implementation, and where good ideas meet the messy reality of making them work. No hype, no buzzword soup — just an insider's perspective. Launching soon. Subscribe to follow along.
"Healthcare is full of silos. Most of the hard problems live in the gaps between them."
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