by Matthew Rehrl MD | Healthcare Innovation, Ikigai
At a recent physician-centric healthcare conference, a CEO, who is also a physician, asked the audience how would they spend one million dollars to help improve physician satisfaction and retention. My answer was quite simple: create an “ikigai fund, ” one which...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Healthcare Innovation, Social Media, Twitter
Today, I want to discuss this one tiny jewel of a tweet by Optum, one of the largest healthcare organizations in the world. It’s a tweet which has stuck with me for years, mostly because I think it is indicative of what large corporations can do with social...
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 | Healthcare Innovation, Physician Career
I wonder if Clark Kent was frustrated at his yearly performance review? I believe most employers don’t want you using your superpowers at work, and I am sure the Daily Planet would fire Clark Kent if he showed up in his Superman tights, suddenly using all of his...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Healthcare Innovation, Mind
I love the paper The Cognitive Science of COVID-19: Acceptance, Denial, Belief Change, written by Paul Thagard. Although a simplified view of this paper is it’s an amplified restatement of Hume’s “reason is a slave to the passions” to me the idea of...
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...
