by Matthew Rehrl MD | Creativity, Healthcare Innovation
If you pursue a Certificate of Strategy and Innovation at MIT’s Sloan School of Management, one of the first questions you will be asked is what is your definition of innovation. My answer was “Creativity Engineering.” I liked the Venn diagram-like overlap of the...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Creativity, Healthcare Innovation
Rather, give them the option of pivoting. Here’s a story to consider. Most physicians have an informal network of physician colleagues who are their go-to resource for complex patient issues. And my pediatric go-to expert? A very smart pediatrician in his early...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Creativity, Writing
There is a visceral pleasure with stapling together papers. I pull individual pages of an article off the printer. I align them and angle them carefully under the “crimp area” of the stapler. Then I do a two-part press of the stapler. The first movement is slow and...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Creativity
Jigsaw puzzles make a great metaphor for life’s journey. For example, they can represent life’s chaos, which can be tempered by first establishing the cornerstones of one’s character (the corners), building good habits and daily structure (the border), being...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Artificial Intelligence, Creativity, Healthcare Innovation
Recently I attended an Artificial Intelligence/Deep Learning Conference where one of the tracts was on AI for Enterprise. Within this tract, there was a Google talk on using AI to optimize employees seating to maximize useful connections between each other. Although...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Creativity, Photography
I took the two Black & White photographs above at Seattle’s Magnuson Park, where there is a Fin Art Sculpture installation by John T. Young. (If you get a chance, you have to watch his 25-minutes fabulous You Call That Art?! YouTube video!) In the first photo, I...
