As I was going up the stair, I met a man who wasn’t there.

He wasn’t there again today…I think, I think, he’d gone away.

This particular fellow happened to be a CIO.  Now, before you throw tomatoes at your monitor, he was atypical; I hope.

We were talking about the various healthcare initiatives that have his attention as the CIO of a hospital.

EHR—done

Meaningful Use—we will pass it in April

Planning for HIPAA 5010 and ICD-10—starting in July

He did not even blink.  It was almost like he was bemused by the triviality of what he faced.  Listening to him, it sounded like he was reading from a scrap of paper he had pulled from hi pants pocket:

1. Pick up one gallon of milk
2. Finish EHR
3. Drop off dry cleaning
4. Collect ARRA money
5. Shave the cat
6. Convert ten thousand systems to 5010
7. Walk on water

If there is a difference between being confident and being grounded in reality, he may be the poster child.