Have you noticed? That opportunities seem to chase some. But for several others...they spend their time chasing opportunities.
When or how does this happen?
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Have you noticed? That opportunities seem to chase some. But for several others...they spend their time chasing opportunities.
When or how does this happen?
Two years ago, Practice Fusion, an electronics health record company was rumored to be valued at more than a billion dollars.
Last month, the company sold for a fire sale price of $100 million.
Just out of curiosity, I searched Google News for these three words: artificial intelligence investments.
Here's what came up.
Nothing ever happens without that spark of an idea. An inspiration strikes out of nowhere while you are sipping coffee. Just at that moment, you feel a little flutter in your heart. The feeling says, wouldn't it be amazing if you did this? But something else happens...
In this day of excitement, we love change. Because it's easy to change. Whether jobs or phones or clothes. We want a constant stimulus. This and that. Here and there.
But what if we really did nothing more? And we stayed bored.
We have these notions of careers. Of course, most of them are acquired. A couple of decades ago, an entire generation wanted to be Jack Welch. Then a decade back, we wanted to be Steve Jobs. And now we slurp Elon Musk.
In that period between end-and-beginning, there's a chance to shift gears. To progress in the direction that we want to. Individually and organizationally.
Whether you are IBM Watson or some other AI system, you seek to find answers to questions. That humans can't answer quickly or analytically.
When we ask cognitive (thinking) questions, there's a big underlying assumption. That the data we feed into the AI system is reliable. But is it?
I don't know if you see this but healthcare is spiraling out of balance. Perhaps into self-destruction.
Our industry is a mess. And it's costing us dearly.
How? You ask.
That meeting is finally happening.
You are all over your prospect's LinkedIn page. You Google everything there is. And you prepare what you're going to say. You list out resistances. And think of counter arguments.
And yet...when the meeting finally happens, nothing happens.
In a recent health-tech class for doctors, we did an experiment. We made them into app designers. In about 30 minutes.
I'll tell you how.
Don't you sense a shift in people's expectations from their careers (and life)? Consider these observations that seem to be happening with greater frequency.
It was exciting to see Dr. G at work. Patient after patient. Using our baby to go about his day. Yes, we had made life easy through our product. Innovated where it mattered.
Last week, I was teaching health IT to clinicians in Mthatha, South Africa. Interventional cardiologists. Pulmonologists. Psychiatrists. Family physicians. Surgeons. Orthopedic doctors. More.
There's a question that'll help patients find their own answers. It'll also help doctors understand them more spatially (meaning, getting a more complete picture).