by Matthew Rehrl MD | Healthcare Innovation
There is a nice summary of wicked problems in Harvard Business Review . “Strategy as a Wicked Problem”—Harvard Business Review. 86: 98-101 which suggests if you have five of these criteria (see below) you may have a wicked problem: There is no definitive...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Philosophy
“The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.”― Geoffrey Chaucer, The Parliament of Birds Let’s talk about philosophy and language. To understand Nietzsche, do I have to know the German language? To understand Rousseau, do I need to speak and write French? To...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | AI Ethics, Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Healthcare Ethics, Healthcare Revenue
Have you ever noticed how a patient’s body mass index (BMI) in the EHR seems to be placed alongside a patient’s vital signs, as if it is a vital sign? I don’t think BMI is a vital sign. For me, there are only four vital signs (blood pressure, heart rate,...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Philosophy
There is beauty in trees.There is beauty in flowers.There is beauty in art.there is beauty in music.There is beauty in the person you love.There is beauty in a cat.There is beauty in mathematics. But there is no beauty in business. Ever. Something to...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Book Reviews, Creativity
On a lovely trans-Cascades drive this week, I had the opportunity to listen to the book The Infinite Game, by Simon Sinek. (I tend to approach these types of books by audio). Sinek develops a powerful concept: finite games have fixed rules, fixed players, and a...
