tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13828412012-01-29T22:42:42.473-05:00A semi-regular diary of Dr. Martin's musings. Read. Discuss. Act.Ross D. Martin, MD, MHAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14133264758384138110noreply@blogger.comBlogger471100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1382841.post-59887033332070624692012-01-29T22:27:00.001-05:002012-01-29T22:42:42.481-05:00

This is the last of a three-part posting about my dance with the love of my life, my wife Kym. You may want to read Part I, Shall We Dance?, then Part II, Romance, Meet Reality, and see Regina Holliday's post on the remarkable Walking Gallery paintings she made for us. Our Wedding Day - Summer Solstice 2000 John Lennon's famous quote--life is what happens when you're making other plans--aptly

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This is Part II of what will likely be a three-part posting of the story of my dance with the love of my life, my wife Kym.  You may want to read Part I, Shall We Dance?, first and see Regina Holliday's post on the remarkable Walking Gallery paintings she made for us over the weekend. Regina Holliday's Walking Gallery Painting: "Knowing the Score" In December of 1996,  I left Ohio and a

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Regina Holliday's Walking Gallery Painting: "Love is an Ever-Fixed Mark" The incomparable Regina Holliday is, as I write this post, painting a portrait on one of my wife's jackets as part of her Walking Gallery collection of images depicting patient-centered care issues. She finished my jacket, pictured above, earlier this evening.  It captures her interpretation of the story of how Kym and I

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On this day of remembrance, only the most unaffected among us can help but reflect on where they were and how time in our minds has forever been cleaved into two parts: before the morning of September 11th, 2001 and after.  Like everyone old enough to retain a memory of that day, I have very distinct memories of where I was (on the Metro North train heading to Grand Central Station) and how the

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My ten-year-old son, known on the Internet as RobotBoy2001, has been working diligently on a video project he calls "Zibit Wipeout!" - it combines two of his favorite things: Zibits (a small, radio-controlled robot toy) and the TV show Wipeout. Dad helped out a little, but I need to emphasize that I didn't spend much time on this one - it was T's project from the start and he did nearly all the

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Cross-posting from informatimusicology.blogspot.com  From the ACMI Archives:The Legend of Bob the DERF Click here to listen to the song The College has received several solicitations from potential members - requesting reviews of health IT related lyrics or recordings.  We thought it would be instructive to bring out some of the original works that led to the establishment of the College.  There

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In his relentless quest to achieve eminence through hyper-specialization, Dr. Ross D. Martin, MD, MHA, FACMI*, President, Founder and Fellow of the American College of Medical Informatimusicology (ACMI), has been officially recognized as the world record holder in over-the-thumb pen spins in one minute, completing an astonishing 48 spins in a minute on August 26th, 2008, hereinafter known

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A couple of weekends ago, PRI’s Studio 360 asked listeners to think about updating a couple of our traditional icons as we approach our annual 4th of July celebrations. One was Uncle Sam – what would a “mascot” for our nation look like today? The other, our National Anthem (which, according to one pole, 27% of Americans believe has a last line of “And the home of the brave… Play Ball!”). I

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Word of your retirement escaped the ever-expanding pile of unexamined mail in my office. It gave me pause to reflect on the tangible and lasting impact your diminutive powerhouse of a self has had on my own. Your academic mentoring, your words (and letters) of support, your example of integrity in its purest form, your comforting words of assurance during a dark passage of my life—all speak of an

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I know I'm a geek, but I just wrote this note to the design engineers at Thermos: It's not often that a product as routine as a water bottle gets me motivated enough to write a letter to the company about it.  Your intak bottle, however, is worth the trouble.   My wife picked four of these up for our family a few weeks ago.  We go through water bottles like we go through, well, water.  Most of

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GreenPaperMonster's posting of my March 1st debut of The Meaningful Yoose Rap at the HIStalk Reception at HIMSS broke the 1000 view mark on YouTube in the last 24 hours Click here for the video and here for the lyrics.For perspective, while that may not seem like many when comparing it to something like the 5million+ views of the Old Spice “I’m on a horse” commercial (a work of pure marketing

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This blog is now located at http://rossmartinmd.blogspot.com/. You will be automatically redirected in 30 seconds, or you may click here. For feed subscribers, please update your feed subscriptions to http://rossmartinmd.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default.

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Maybe I'll finally get around to posting stuff on the Medical Informatimusicology blog. Here's one...http://informatimusicology.blogspot.com/

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World Premier of Spot and Peanut in Lost at Sea!About six weeks ago, Kym is away on a business trip for the weekend. Son, Taylor, now eight, asks if he can fill up the Jacuzzi tub in the master bedroom. In his hands is a "boat" - several pieces of wood from my workshop hot-glued together. Turns out, he wants to make a movie starring his guinea pigs, Spot and Peanut (aka, "the gigs"). He's written

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Les Paul and the Night Before the World ChangedLes Paul will be forever linked in my mind with life before the world changed. My friend Peter Frishauf invited me to see Les Paul perform with his trio at one of his weekly gigs at the Iridium. I had to go uptown from 42nd street and got caught in an flash downpour that made every cab in Manhattan vanish, leaving me to walk about 10 blocks. My

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The American College of Medical Informatimusicology is pleased to bring you an original work written and performed by ACMI's founding member, Dr. Ross D. Martin, MD, MHA, FACMI:HITECHAn Interoperetta in Three ActsWho knew you could learn so much about the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act in under four minutes?The Story Behind the SongI had been thinking about

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Working with YouTubeThis is a test video so I can learn how to post.That was the video. How does it look?That was ridiculously easy!

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Stories from My FatherJoseph Gordon MartinSeptember 1st, 1930 - January 29th, 2009 Yesterday, we celebrated the life and mourned the passing of Joseph Gordon Martin - otherwise known as "Joe Gordon" to his kin back in Big Stone Gap, VA, "Captain Martin" to his Air Force colleagues, "Your old uncle Joe" to the people he called up on the phone during his long career in real estate, and just plain "

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Taylor's 2009 New Year's CardOh-Eight is a wrap -- and I say Good Riddance!Dad's 401(k) is now worth a mere pittanceThe stock market's tanking; our future looks darkOur country's transmission seems locked up in ParkI'm feeling most pensive and now as I ponderThe future, I see all the warnings and wonderIf my generation will be the last oneTo have childhoods loaded with laughter and funBut then I

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An Era of ChangeThis week's NYT Sunday Magazine has an article by Ron Suskind entitled "Change: How Eras End and Begin." In it, he describes a seminal scene in David Axelrod's office as Barack and Michelle Obama confer with eight others about whether or not Barack should pursue the presidency. Michelle says, "You need to ask yourself, Why do you want to do this?"Barack says, "This I know: When I

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Yes We Did!This is a time to look forward, to move to a new place for our nation in this world. We have an incredible amount of healing to do - healing our economy, our relationships with other nations and peoples, of the sould of this amazing country.As tough of a race as it has been, the work is just ahead of us. I am humbled to think that today we did what could not be done - one person at a

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Happy (Belated) Birthday to MeCharlene Kingston, an old friend from college days in Ohio reconnected with me via Facebook and Twitter. She sent me a very thoughtful note for my 44th on the 21st that seemed worthy of a post:The process of living daily life has a changing pace. The rhythms of working life and family provide a baseline of activity that influences our perception of the passing of

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Venus in ReposeEarlier this evening, Kym, Taylor and I said a long, tearful goodbye to a member of our family – our 1-1/2-year-old miniature schnauzer named Venus. She didn’t die; we gave her to a wonderful couple who we know will take very good care of her. Venus is, without question, the best dog I’ve ever known – not that I’ve been close to many. But experienced dog people have remarked about

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Yesterday, I had to install a security update on my work PC that required a reboot. I dutifully closed the 20 or so windows of stuff I had open, making sure I had saved each document. Later that day, I went to open a draft of a whitepaper on the use of electronic data sources for drug safety surveillance as a follow-on to BearingPoint's work on the eHealth Initiative Connecting Communities for

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Yesterday, I sent this email to a bunch of folks working on creating a new road map for developing pharmacy and ePrescribing-related standards through NCPDP, the National Council for Prescription Drug Programs, a standards development organization. Too often, volunteers like these never get the credit or thanks they deserve for working on something so esoteric and abstract, but that is,

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William F. Buckley, Jr. - 1925-2008Newsweek's cover story on the death of the voice of right wing political commentary prompted me to read again a copy of a letter of thanks Mr. Buckley wrote to my grandmother, which I keep framed in my office. Though I may not have agreed with his political views and probably have more affinity to his son, Christopher Buckley (still waiting for the brilliant

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Announcement of New Position at BearingPointBearingPoint sent out a press release today announcing my new role as Director of Health Information Convergence within the Healthcare and Life Sciences Segment of the organization. I thought that title would be pretty decriptive of what I will be doing in this new phase of my career. But, perhaps more importantly, the title maximizes my opportunity for

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Charting a New CourseI sent this email to my co-workers at Pfizer last Friday. The responses I've received over the last week have been touching, sad, rewarding and profound. I have made many friends and am honored to have worked with such quality people.Dear Pfizer Colleagues –This is a very difficult message to write. After experiencing six remarkable years with Pfizer, I have decided to close

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VeritocracyThought I'd do some coindropping and coin a new word - veritocracy - a societal system based upon trust and value that is created through information transparency. eBay, I would argue, is a veritocracy because the market of exchange that exists is based upon trust. But the trust upon which it operates is not a blind trust. I am willing to wire money to a complete stranger on the

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The MedBiq SongLast night, I briefly performed at the 2006 Annual Conference of the MedBiquitous Consortium in Baltimore, MD. MedBiq is a standards development organization whose mission is to create a technology blueprint for professional healthcare education. I been serving on their Executive Committee for a few years, so when they found out that I had written a song for NCPDP's annual

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The Earth is the Sky(a song for Earth Day 2006)The Earth is the SkyThe Earth is the SkyGaze into her deeply - she tells you no lieThe Earth is the SkyThe Earth is the SkyThe Earth is the SeaThe Earth is the SeaAll life flows out and returns faithfullyThe Earth is the SeaThe Earth is the SeaThe Earth is the SunThe Earth is the SunHer core warms us all and her warmth makes us oneThe Earth is the

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Thunderous News from the ONC - Brailer ResignsIt's not like the president was assasinated or anything, but the news that just popped into my inbox hit me pretty hard. Dr. David Brailer, the first National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, announced today that he was stepping down. The news was first reported (as far as I can tell) by the Financial Times of London - British spelling

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You Are What You Measure - Part IIGoogle provided just 540 links to the phrase, but some of the highest ranking hits provided some good fodder. Leave it to the folks from MIT to provide a thoughtful treatise on the issue from 1998. Looking for something a little less heady? The Artful Manager penned a shorter article in 2003. So while I can't claim to be a Coin Dropper (see 10/9/2003 blog), at

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Your Are What You MeasureI keep trying to distill some common truths about the work many of us are doing on transforming healthcare through information technology. A lot of the drivers for employing HIT come down to this: You are what You Measure. If you've read Freakonomics, you know that introducing measurements into a system can significantly affect that system and you tend to get changes that

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I've been thinking about the ultimate summary of everything I believe about what's wrong with healthcare and how to make it right. The answer?Fog KillsDid you just say "Ah" or "Huh"? Let me explain. Newt Gingrich is fond of pointing out that "Paper Kills." He's not wrong. He just doesn't tell the entire story. Paper (in other words, the lack of electronic health records) is just a part of the

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Allow me to introduce you to "The Legend of Bob the DERF" - Catchy title, I know. But if you know what a DERF is (psst - it's a Data Element Request Form - the thing that is used by NCPDP (The National Council for Prescription Drug Programs - an ANSI (American National Standards Institute - they create standards for SDOs (Standards Development Organizations - the groups that make standards for

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This weekend, I won a no-limit Texas Hold'em tournament in my new neighborhood against 17 other gents having never played before. All I did was learn the basic rules, play a few hands online to learn the mechanics, and read some articles at www.learn-texas-holdem.com. The sections on understanding the psychology of the no limit games proved to be so on target that I walked home with a trophy

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Bob Edwards told us on NPR's Morning Edition today that a report published in the Journal of Death Studies says that poets die younger than novelists, playwrights and other writers. Click here for the story. The study's author, James Kaufman, speculates that the cause may be the poet's tendancy to be more tortured and therefore prone to self destruction. Au Contraire! Live Poet’s Anxiety

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For the “You Heard it Here First” file: I have been working on electronic prescribing (eRx) standards for some time, but the recent signing into law of the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement and Modernization Act of 2003 (DIMA) has put these efforts into overdrive. It’s amazing to see how fast this is all moving now. Trouble is, no one talks about the fundamental problem with Medicare –

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Here's a thought: Let's say you want to be known as the person who coined the phrase [put your original thought here]. How do you establish ownership of an original turn of phrase the way "telecosm" has been attributed to George Guilder or the dreaded "paradigm shift" to Thomas Kuhn? Would publishing to a Blog be sufficient? It beats paying the Writer's Guild of America ten bucks to register

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Lots of silence since my last blog. Blame it on my last one - the Baby Rap. Taylor came in at 10 lbs. 2 oz. and has been growing ever since. Daddy took a real job at Pfizer to deal with needing things like health insurance and formula. Can it be that more than 2 1/2 years have passed? I guess I can sum it all up with this song I wrote a few weeks ago... Cool Daddy Since my early days I

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Wrote this yesterday...Took a little trip to see the doctor today Found out on an ultrasound what Taylor would weigh Seems the little guy comes in at NINE POUNDS PLUS! The doctor shook her head and said "It's baby or bust" We're headin' to the hospital to get a little potion When applied a certain way evokes some cervical motion And then the next morning, we'll try for a day To see if we can

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In keeping with what is now a two-year Christmas tradition, I wrote Kym a poem, a la Dr. Seuss, that is an extension of one of Kym’s favorites, Oh, the Places You’ll Go! Pretty much sums up the year we've had... Oh, the year we have had! with its jostles and bumpsWe’ve been high on the Rooftops! And down in the DumpsJust when we thought that our future was clearWe’d turn ‘round a corner and

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I know it's not Thanksgiving yet, but I've been in a thougtful mood today, considering all that I have to be thankful for (plus I've finally been getting around to writing thank you notes for gifts Kym and I have received for our Summer Solstice wedding). The last 12 months have been a rollercoaster ride for sure, what with a cancer scare, a wedding, an unexpected conception, two deaths in the

Ross D. Martin, MD, MHAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14133264758384138110noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1382841.post-14142232000-11-20T10:02:00.000-05:002000-11-20T10:02:09.090-05:00

I’m really not as obsessed about the election results as I probably sound. It’s just that it’s a topic so ripe for pontification that I just can’t resist. So please forgive yet another electoral rumination… When the whole concept of a “chad” (which, by the way, received the “red under-squiggle of shame” as I typed it into Word) was dumped into our collective memory databanks, I thought briefly

Ross D. Martin, MD, MHAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14133264758384138110noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1382841.post-14075682000-11-19T13:47:00.000-05:002000-11-19T13:47:08.166-05:00

Another day, still no President-elect. I'm starting to not mind it so much. The rest of my life is in limbo (the new company I'm helping to found is still searching for that ever-important next round of funding), so why not share the feelings of uncertainty with the rest of the nation? The stock market hardly knows what to do with itself. Pundits always say that the market hates

Ross D. Martin, MD, MHAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14133264758384138110noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1382841.post-13828732000-11-16T11:00:00.000-05:002000-11-16T11:00:05.323-05:00

This is my first blog. I thought it would be a good place to dump random thoughts. Here's one... I sent this to NPR last night... The bright side of our election debacle is that the national consciousness is now riveted on a subject of much greater social import than our prior obsessions, most notably the O. J. Simpson trial. The downside is that the legal eagles involved in the case are

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