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"The most dangerous decision-making fallacy is that informed decision-makers will naturally make better, more objective decisions. Making consistently timely, effective, informed decisions takes hard work. Trust me – it’s worth it. Effective decision-making is the essential common ingredient behind every successful step, initiative, and strategy that people, organizations, and national governments undertake."
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The informed decision-maker fallacy
A common and dangerous decision-making fallacy is that informed decision-makers predictably make better, more objective decisions. It’s...

Ozzie Paez
Dec 29, 20222 min read
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Who decides? GPS, smart tech, and risky decision-making
Johnathan Turley’s post on the tragic death of a young father and husband[1] highlights the differences between technologies that help us...

Ozzie Paez
Oct 12, 20223 min read
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Hospitals struggling with COVID spikes
The daily drumroll of hospitals, health systems, cities, and states struggling to cope with COVID spikes continues. We don’t yet know how...

Ozzie Paez
Feb 8, 20222 min read
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Quantifying health and healthcare
The heart of digital transformation is quantification or more specifically the capacity to continuously measure (sample) processes,...

Ozzie Paez
Jan 29, 20222 min read
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Barriers to healthcare innovation
Replacing legacy medical equipment with innovative new technologies is challenging because in healthcare there is little room for error....

Ozzie Paez
Dec 10, 20212 min read
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Harvard Digital Health Wrap-Up
Harvard’s last Digital Health cohort of 2021 wrapped December 4th. There were 191 participants from across the world. This was one of the...

Ozzie Paez
Dec 9, 20211 min read
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Remote Patient Monitoring: challenges and opportunities
All technologies introduce controversies and disruptive technologies can kick up a storm. My colleagues and I have experienced these...

Ozzie Paez
Nov 11, 20212 min read
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Nursing shortage at NoCo's Healthcare Summit
Northern Colorado’s Healthcare Summit brought home the looming catastrophe of nursing shortages across the country. Reports suggest that...

Ozzie Paez
Oct 29, 20212 min read
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Preparedness and healthcare specs
I’ve spent much of my career helping clients define their needs, expectations, and #requirements in the face of continuous technological...

Ozzie Paez
May 21, 20211 min read
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Research: Tech and catastrophes
Healthcare, Public Health, and Emergency Services endured unprecedented challenges coping with #covid19. The pandemic’s impacts on the...

Ozzie Paez
May 20, 20211 min read
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Coping with mass casualty events
Previous posts in this series dealt with lessons learned after a mass casualty event – 9/11. This one focuses on mounting disasters that...

Ozzie Paez
May 6, 20211 min read
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COVID lessons learned: Part 2
My previous post discussed community feedback received after 9/11 on federal plans for improving preparedness. We learned from healthcare...

Ozzie Paez
Apr 27, 20211 min read
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COVID lessons learned: Part 1
Covid’s broadly impacted healthcare systems and their stakeholders. Hospitals were the most critical and hardest hit components on the...

Ozzie Paez
Apr 15, 20211 min read
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Prepare for 2021
Sometimes conditions beyond their control leave business leaders with few good choices...

Ozzie Paez
Jul 21, 20201 min read
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Clarifying uncertainties
This post offers insights for identifying and contextually clarifying post-lockdown economic, strategic, and operational uncertainties.

Ozzie Paez
Apr 14, 20201 min read
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Why can't we get along?
I’m frequently asked about the implications of mergers and acquisitions. The issue came up again after Fort Collins’ Woodward, Inc. announc

Ozzie Paez
Feb 6, 20205 min read
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What are business disruptions?
The term ‘disruption’ has become a bucket word holding many imprecise concepts and definitions. That’s unfortunate because the fate of...

Ozzie Paez
Dec 5, 20193 min read
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Disruptions, decisions, and leadership
Change is a constant in business, but not all changes are created equal. Executives and senior managers are usually most concerned about...

Ozzie Paez
Nov 13, 20192 min read
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Walmart, Guns and Disruptions
Disruptions can make or break organizations and their leaders. If you lead or hope to lead in a competitive environment, then coping...

Ozzie Paez
Sep 17, 20193 min read
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Innovations, disruptions, business and war
Innovative technologies possess disruptive capacity but are rarely disruptive on their own. Disruptions occur at the intersection of...

Ozzie Paez
Aug 29, 20193 min read
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