The Week Begins

HIMSS (Healthcare Information Management and Systems Society) starts this week.

It is only Tuesday AM and it already feels like a long week. Just kidding. The truth is travel days wear me out. It was uneventful for the most part. Only hiccup was in Atlanta. We boarded the very large 767, got all ready to go, but something was wrong with a fuel gauge. So we got off the plane, Delta pulled another one out of the garage, we boarded it and left only a couple of hours late. It’s hard to complain about that. They did a good job.

I don’t feel I can say that often about an airline. It is a shame what has happened to air travel in the states.

Biz Stone of twitter fame (one of the cofounders) did the keynote and it was awesome! I don’t know how well it was received by the more stuffy CIO/Doctor types, but for us nerds in the audience, it was great!

He had a lot of good things to say.

One of the key messages he shared was the value of people and ideas. A couple of his ‘aphorisms’ really resonated with us. Particularly that it’s important to keep the customers in mind, coworkers have good intentions and often they have good ideas, and that fun is a very important part of success.

I couldn’t agree more. I’m very fortunate to have a job I genuinely enjoy and have fun doing.

Off to the vendor floor this afternoon. That’s really the big payoff for HIMSS. I come for the keynotes and the vendor floor. Frankly, we’re ahead of the game at Nemours and often doing things with technology that HIMSS won’t be talking about for a couple more years.

Enjoy!