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Message from the CEO

January 11th, 2012

I scanned an article the other day and while it didn’t impact me then, a key word from the headline came back to me. The word? PURSUIT, used in the context that our quest for excellence is the difference between accelerating a culture of achievement versus becoming complacent as an organization.  For me, that single word fired a mental image of the phrase “Better is Better than Best”. The day a company stops pursuing excellence is the day the company is guaranteed to miss it.

I’ve already intimated to my senior team that PURSUIT will be a big word in my vocabulary in 2012. The word strikes me as incredibly descriptive of the mindset Strata Health needs to continue to accelerate its vision. We need it to be core in our efforts in maintaining both our track record of meaningful innovation and our organization’s commitment to “the World’s patients and frontline care givers”.

Past and current industry surveys have told us that Strata Health clients and their clinical users truly do trust Strata Health to do the right thing in patient flow, and to build technology that makes a real difference in intelligent eReferral for impacted patients. This is great as it tells us that our Brand vision is working, but my issue, of course, is how do we maintain that trust and track record when the pace of change within the Health IT world continues to accelerate?

Well, perhaps by committing in 2012 to:

- an even more intense PURSUIT of greatness in all we do - big jobs and little ones

- support of a culture rewarding PURSUIT of innovation in every aspect of our day

- PURSUIT of even more collaboration with clients and their patients – every day

- truly push ourselves past comfort zones, PURSUING new ideas and partnerships

Sounds great? I believe so, but when the hectic pace of health care takes over a day – oh, and it will – it will be easy for us to forget these grand pronouncements to tackle something beyond our immediate reach. Such is the challenge of developing a unique culture which supports staff finding time today to think about doing something in a better or more innovative way, all in PURSUIT of being a better partner in HIS technology tomorrow.

Well, as I read this back, I suspect I’ve just enunciated my “job #1” for 2012!  What an exciting year it will be!

MY 2012 CEO PLEDGE:  To actively support Strata staff in our daily PURSUIT of innovation to deliver a true difference in the day of our clients’ front line clinicians and their patients flow across the care continuum

 

Yours truly,

Donald Schick   

Donald G. Schick
President & Chief Executive Officer
Strata Health Solutions Inc.