What brings you joy? The ability to eat dinner with my entire family, including all six of my kids, brings me joy. I also appreciate quiet, quality time with my wife one-on-one as well. What are you most afraid of? I am not afraid of tangible items, but more of letting people down or not [...]
As companies make changes to improve profits, efficiencies and quality of the products and services they offer, these changes most likely will impact the day to day work of a company’s staff. Many companies use consultants to complete such projects. Some benefits of hiring outside consultants is the availability of expertise that may not be [...]
“Unless you are willing to experience new things, you’ll never realize your full potential” – Wim Hof One activity that has always been on my bucket list is to skydive. As the years went by, my responsibilities increased, a family, bills to pay etc. and as the primary provider in the family, skydiving was frowned [...]
When I attended my first Medicaid Enterprise Systems Conference (MESC) in 2013, I had the privilege to be part of a panel with the State of Michigan. At that time, I was relatively new to the state Medicaid world as well as netlogx. As I think about the similarities and differences between MESC 2013 and [...]
There is always room for an organization to grow and improve its services and the quality in which they run their business. Often that means that the implementation of a great idea to better a business needs to be handled as a larger project. But this is also where some things begin to break down, [...]
At the end of 2018, I completed a half marathon in Las Vegas. With my spirits high and the adrenaline of a successful race still in the forefront of my mind, I set more running goals for the next year. Unfortunately, just as I had embarked on another training program, an injury kept me from [...]
“Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunities” When asked why I like working for netlogx, this saying first came to mind. As I read further about the origins of this quote, the most relevant work was done by Psychologist Richard Wiseman. Richard Wiseman studied hundreds of peoples over the course of 10 years and [...]
Your hospital leadership team has finally reached consensus and decided it is time to move your healthcare system to the latest enterprise electronic health record (EHR). As you proceed through the vendor selection process, you assess and analyze the features and capabilities of the software solution and the viability of the vendor who will become [...]
As an employer or a manager it is energizing when you have a team or individual working for you who just gets it, they always complete what is asked of them and more with nary a complaint. What motivates these individuals? What enables them to perform at such a level? Can an organization provide an [...]
A great perk of working at netlogx is the availability of classes from a company named trueU. trueU provides its members with classes that cover self-improvement across a broad range of topics. I recently attended a trueU class on motivation. The class explored the factors that influence employee engagement and reviewed ideas and techniques to [...]
