Healthcare Supply Chain Technology and Strategy

In keeping with our theme of marketing help, I wanted to share some interesting insights on the world of cybersecurity and how it may likely affect you.  Hat tip to  Compliance Expert Health Wruble for the excellent content. Happy Friday..    Cybersecurity Is On My Mind – Is It On Yours? Heath Wruble  I tend to take Cybersecurity to the extreme. In fact, it is a primary focus of my job, which is to protect the privacy and confidentiality of our clients. To say their privacy is a matter of concern is an understatement – we see our clients as more than clients; they are family and we strive to protect our family at all cost. If we fail at protecting our clients, confidence erodes, relationships are lost, and friendships are broken. Not a month goes by that there isn’t an article in the Wall Street Journal about a data exposure or data breach. Each and every story is devoured and dissected by the firm to identify what those companies have done, what may have cause...

Since Heath was kind enough to keep sharing , This week he reminds us that sometime social media can be hazardous to your business health, This is especially  true around business and taking a political, religious or other stance today.  Read on for some Insight..  Hat tip to  Compliance Expert Health Wruble for the excellent content. Happy Friday..  Social Media Pitfalls! Heath Wruble  As a hiring manager, I see so many mistakes people make when interacting on Social Media, that I sometimes want to cry. I am concerned that we tend to take our social media posts with a grain of salt and do not really understand the long-term effect our posts and comments may have. Although I believe social media is a great way to communicate with others and can be a fantastic channel to advertise ourselves or our businesses, it’s also important to remember the societal and career perils inherent to social media. I recently received a resume in response to a job I had posted...

“Life is a series of problems to be analyzed and addressed. How do we fix our failing schools? How do we reduce violence? These problem-centered questions are usually the wrong ones to ask. They focus on deficits, not gifts...  The better community-building conversations focus on possibilities, not problems.  They are questions such as,  What crossroads do we stand at right now?  What can we build together?  How can we improve our lives together?  What talents do we have here that haven’t been fully expressed ?” ― David Brooks, The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life   Hat tip to Paul Giobbi for the book recommendation.  One of the benefits of being a consultant is that you have a bit more time to look at the big picture. Many of the folks I speak with are struggling with semi retirement or just not being as active and are looking to do a little something to keep them engaged.   Through my newly minted AARP Membership (I am not...

This week we learn that sometimes thinking on our feet is the way to growing your business.  Hat tip to  Compliance Expert Health Wruble for the excellent content. Happy Friday..  Improv and Business - why leaders and influencers should take improv! -Heath Wruble While living in Austin, I stumbled across and attended an improv show called “Second Sundays” featuring the Improv troupe The Known Wizards, at the Zach Theater. I went back several times, and it was always a great night. In fact, I hadn’t smiled or laughed that much in a very long time. At the end of each performance, the troupe advertised their improv classes. Eventually, I decided to enroll in the improv classes. Why not? What else was I going to do on a Thursday night? Three weeks into the Improv 101 class it dawned upon me that I should have been taking these classes all along, and eventually I came to the conclusion these classes should be taught in college, business school, and in leadership training class...

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Isn’t life sometimes like that?  As soon as we settle in and finally feel comfortable it is time to change.  Sometimes our choice, sometimes not. After a year with Aptean, we have decided to part ways, The MDS-Nx Product has a strong future and I wish all my former colleagues all the best and thank them for everything we did together to build TSH. But in the somewhat fleeting words of Sheryl Crow, I think “A Change Would Do You Good"   Is a good mantra for the next phase of my business career. Along with that thinking, I am thrilled to announce the launching of davidfertig.com as my new platform and blog for Technology Strategy and Business Consulting . Leverage my 30+ years of technology, business strategy, and healthcare-specific knowledge to your benefit. Looking for a VC injection and or want to understand the M&A Landscape for Healthcare Technology?  Need a Board Member to review auditing, compensation, performance, or regulatory compliance?   Wan...

  Join us for what's next as the Systems House grows into the future https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qrriKcwvlY We had a busy summer, and I am excited to share the next step in The System House’s journey. Today, we announced that we have been acquired by Aptean, a global provider of mission-critical enterprise software solutions. As you may know, Aptean is one of the world’s leading providers of industry-specific software, world-class products and services that assist customers in effectively running and growing their businesses and enabling them to be Ready for What’s Next, Now® . In total, Aptean’s solutions are used by over 10,000 customers around the world. With both cloud and on-premise deployment options, Aptean’s products, services and unmatched expertise help businesses of all sizes to scale and succeed.  Aptean shares our commitment to delivering software purpose-built to meet the needs of discrete and process goods distributors. TSH’s solutions, and our expertise ...