I’m frequently approached by medical students, residents, and fellows interested in careers in informatics and digital health.  I love these conversations.  It is so fun and rewarding to be part of someone’s journey to discovering their career passion.  During my most recent conversation, I decided to try to capture it to create a post that might help many many more future students and trainees in the future.  So, this will read like part blog-post, part-interview, because mu

Another HIMSS conference is in the books. Amidst the craziness that HIMSS can be, it is always a pleasure to spend time running into friends, collaborators, and former colleagues. There have been lots of great pieces written about 2018 HIMSS, including by Chrissy Farr and by Lisa Suennen. Here are some of my thoughts and takeaways: 1 – Where’s the Peds? HIMSS pretty much has a little something for anybody. However, walking the exhibition hall and seeing vendor booths, attend

Our UCSF Clinical Informatics group met a few months ago with several representatives from a major Health IT vendor. The vendor, we’ll call them RxLabs, is a provider of pharmaceutical related knowledge in many domains, including decision support tools for the EHR. Our conversation centered around how to better customize medication alerts. We talked about the popular topic of “alert fatigue,” and how to improve EHR decision support tools to improve their impact, rather than j