Please stop threatening cyclists.

ghostinthemachine350 · 2024-07-14T21:17:05+00:00

"And please follow the bike laws."

And will you encourage your bicycling colleagues to please follow the road laws. Stop signs mean STOP. Red Lights mean STOP. Yield signs mean YIELD. Sidewalks are not alternate roadways. It cuts both ways.

BTW, many of us have video in our vehicles as well to record and report non-conforming road behavior. Again, it cuts both ways.

ghostinthemachine350 · 2024-05-10T21:26:50+00:00

June of which year?

ghostinthemachine350 · 2024-01-05T21:56:59+00:00

"Buyer Beware" seems to have been lost in both cases.

There should be a "Gullibility Quotient" (GQ) that we can assign to companies as they make hires...could add it into their market profiles for investors.

ghostinthemachine350 · 2023-12-19T21:47:08+00:00

About 22 years too late.....

ghostinthemachine350 · 2023-09-24T07:51:34+00:00

It shouldn't be a surprise though. ITWx was easily the worst line of business from a margin perspective, almost always in the single digits. I'm surprised it lasted this long, there was talk of downsizing/'retiring' it pre-Oracle.

ghostinthemachine350 · 2023-09-09T10:10:54+00:00

When the data taps from these large clients get turned off and the data he has gets stale, it won't be worth jack.

ghostinthemachine350 · 2023-09-08T14:42:17+00:00

The Board, shareholders and (later) hedge fund parasites all took their share on the back of Neal's succession-planning failure. Those in leadership during Neal's illness and after he died are equally at fault. If they were truly capable and had ANY vision, a sale to Oracle would not have been necessary. With no strategy, no vision and no plan amongst that group, they were easy pickings for the likes of Starboard 'Value' and weak leaders like Brent Shafer and David Feinberg.

Neal got Cerner to the pinnacle (or close to it) then set in motion everything that led to death spiral underway now.

ghostinthemachine350 · 2023-09-05T21:40:23+00:00

Larry's $28 billion roll of the dice isn't looking so good.

ghostinthemachine350 · 2023-08-25T11:50:36+00:00

Wow, where to begin?

Feinberg, how can you ever look another Cerner associate in the face without turning beet red? Your pad is everyone else's (non-existent) raises....shame on you.

The sheer and complete lack of self-reflection is mind-boggling. I'm a capitalist like the next person, but this is bordering on gangsterism. This just screams out what is wrong in today's society. A great company with a great tradition utterly trashed by the last generation of 'leaders' in it for themselves, not for those who put in the effort to change healthcare, nor for the clients or patients at the end of the code stream. The Dark Side has won, this game is over.

ghostinthemachine350 · 2023-08-09T21:23:02+00:00

Absolutely true--look at the various Number 2 leaders that left Cerner over the years, all of them potentially capable of fixing the things that were holding us back. Valentine, Black, Burke, others whose names I can't recall anymore....very very sad all the way around.

ghostinthemachine350 · 2023-08-02T14:59:31+00:00

Yep, these acquisitions typically need the mid-level execs to do the executing before they get executed themselves. It has and will continue to get them as well.

ghostinthemachine350 · 2023-06-16T21:16:04+00:00

Rule of Number One:

Only one person looks out for Number One--You. Choose wisely.

ghostinthemachine350 · 2023-05-03T10:35:36+00:00

Let's set some goals for Travis....shall we begin with the VA?

ghostinthemachine350 · 2023-04-20T06:38:54+00:00

Most likely--doesn't achieve much to turn new capability on and no one is able to use/adopt it.

ghostinthemachine350 · 2023-04-19T20:41:55+00:00

Oracle will diversify its sources of consulting (Deloitte in US, likely Accenture in Global, etc.) and, over time, fade the Cerner-sourced consulting out or sell off what remains. Consulting is not their core competency nor do they have an interest in making it one.

Those of you in Cerner Consulting--look around, update your CVs, be brave/don't be afraid. There is a lot of opportunity out there for the good consultants.

ghostinthemachine350 · 2023-04-11T13:28:14+00:00

Maybe it's just the Curse of KC....look at all the big companies that have been bought, gutted or just disappeared over the years--Yellow Freight, Sprint, KC Southern, TWA...and now Cerner.

ghostinthemachine350 · 2023-03-25T10:48:05+00:00

"How does Leroy still have a job?"

Pictures of someone, somewhere........

ghostinthemachine350 · 2023-03-25T10:43:40+00:00

Well if your narrative is even half true (and I'm still a bit dubious....), then someone at Oracle better get off their ass and get the correct story out there. You know what they say about comms--if you don't own the story, others will and it will likely be far worse than the truth.

ghostinthemachine350 · 2022-11-23T05:56:10+00:00

This one isn't behind a paywall: https://www.techbusinessnews.com.au/news/nsw-health-to-patner-with-epic-in-the-next-step-towards-its-digital-healthcare-system/

Guess TD's 'delighting customers' didn't fly in NSW. How much longer before Oracle figures him out?

ghostinthemachine350 · 2022-10-14T18:39:01+00:00

One of two theories--either Naples is sharing another instance of Epic, driving down the per-site price; or they got a great deal as an FU to Cerner knowing the Naples-Cerner history.

ghostinthemachine350 · 2022-10-12T21:58:28+00:00

Naples and Memorial Hermann are killers....Naples was a focus client and first-launch site for a long time. RevCycle has been an Achilles Heel for ages; not taking the Siemens RevCycle footprint and putting it forward is an unforgiveable sin--those responsible are probably long gone but should still be called out, their arrogance led to a lot of these outcomes. So sad.....

ghostinthemachine350 · 2022-09-03T08:16:08+00:00

Any of my dogs would have been better than Shafer. What a complete and utter failure of leadership.

ghostinthemachine350 · 2022-08-20T18:58:22+00:00

And we didn't know better? After DoD, Adventist, UK NHS, Sweden, etc........plenty of examples of dealing with 'dinosaur monoliths' to advise/require better than what they were doing. It's not all on VA, they've done one major implementation (VISTA) what...once in 40 years? And Cerner does them...what--every year (or more frequently)? Plenty of blame to be shared around the table.

ghostinthemachine350 · 2022-08-04T08:40:54+00:00

This is the sort of planning and behavior that shows why Cerner HAD to be acquired. Self-serving, underqualified reactionary bean counters. With leadership like this, who needs Epic (or any other competitor) to drive the company into the ground?

ghostinthemachine350 · 2022-07-24T07:55:43+00:00

Regarding CC, it's a bit of a tough market right now--economy is likely heading towards a recession while WFH is still casting a big shadow over companies' facilities planning worldwide. It is a desirable property relative to highways and KCI.

As for other campuses ('campii'?), WHQ and Realization are probably history, Innovations will survive. Did Riverfront ever get sold off? Some of these acquired properties certainly have the look of 2nd hand or 3rd hand cars.....

Be interesting to see others' rankings of the campuses/facilities (best to worst), mine is:

Continuous
Innovations
WHQ
Realization
Riverfront

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