Digital Health Frontier Blog

I realize that my blog post frequency has diminished during COVID.   Writing time has been redirected to the national COVID-19 coalition and its 14 workgroups:AnalyticsModeling ...

By John Halamka • April 18, 2020

The following is a post from the members of the COVID-19 Healthcare Coalition ,  #C19Coalition co-chaired by  Dr. Jay Schnitzer, Chief Medical and Technology Officer at MITRE  @MITREcorp ...

By John Halamka • March 22, 2020

You might think a farm sanctuary doesn't need cyber-liability insurance (we do because we track social security numbers associated with donations). You may not think ...

By John Halamka • March 21, 2020

In the upcoming week you'll see numerous writings about national private sector efforts to enhance COVID response, communication, and collaboration. As part of doing this work, ...

By John Halamka • March 21, 2020

As we plan our go-lives for the Mayo Clinic Platform, we recently discussed how best to measure what constitutes a go-live. First, let's review what Platform ...

By John Halamka • March 7, 2020

Platform businesses require technology that promotes interoperability and scalability.  For those who live in platform companies day-to-day, my thinking below may sound obvious, but for ...

By John Halamka • February 25, 2020

Last weekend I moderated an amazing group of presenters for Harvard Business School's 17th Annual Healthcare Conference, debating the future of elder care throughout the ...

By John Halamka • February 14, 2020

Over the past 40 years I've worked in a variety of workplace settings, each appropriately serving its intended purpose. I did not appreciate how much ...

By John Halamka • February 4, 2020

This is the first of a two part series that describes where I live and where I work at Mayo Clinic. To me, life and work ...

By John Halamka • February 4, 2020

I recently told several of my Mayo colleagues that I'm an outsider who has landed in a new environment where the degree of collaboration, dialog, ...

By John Halamka • January 30, 2020