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Dr. Colin Fincham

Sr. Director and Chief Medical Officer, Cerner EMEA, LATAM, and Canada
Cerner Middle East and Africa

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COVID-19 will change health care forever

by Dr. Colin Fincham
April 14, 2020
During the challenging days of the COVID-19 pandemic, it is sometimes hard to try and find the positive elements. About 90% of the world’s children are not in school (1.3 billion), many workers are working from home and our colleagues in the health and care sector and other essential workers continue to put themselves at risk to deliver critical services. But as Plato said, ‘necessity is the mother of invention,’ in this case, disruption is the acceleration of change.

Why optimization potentially saves clinician's and patient's lives

by Dr. Colin Fincham
October 28, 2019
As we look towards a world without medical error, we often consider activities which can improve patient safety but there is one area, often overlooked, that has time and again been proven to nearly double the risk of patient safety incidents (OR, 1.96 95% CI, 1.59-2.4) and reduce quality of care (OR, 2.31; 95% CI 1.87-2.85)[1]; an epidemic that currently appears to have no amelioration that of Clinician Burnout.

Enhancing integration between health care and technology

by Dr. Colin Fincham
July 21, 2019
Dr. Colin Fincham, Senior Director & Chief Medical Officer - Cerner EMEA, LATAM, and Canada, talks to Hospitals magazine about Cerner’s approach to population health management and the innovative approach of working with health care providers to keep communities proactive and engaged in their own health.

I must do what? Type? - To the next generation of employees, the keyboard is extinct, are you ready?

by Dr. Colin Fincham
October 30, 2018
I knew the world was changing, whilst sitting drinking coffee in my favorite coffee shop, when my ears were alerted to someone speaking but not in a totally conversational way, I turned around to see the orator dictating an SMS message into his phone. It was at that moment I realized that the way we interact with our technologies is moving on.

Whats in a name Performance: Quality and Clinical Indicators

by Dr. Colin Fincham
November 28, 2017
Names are important, they tell us who we are, they tell us where we come from, they tell us who you are.

The Year of Becoming a Newbie Again

by Dr. Colin Fincham
December 29, 2016
The one thing that joins us together in this technological era is that come tomorrow there will be a new feature a new icon or new function that makes our life that little bit better … “There is nothing permanent except being FOREVER NEWBIES”

Cerner and the Population Management Work Books

by Dr. Colin Fincham
October 25, 2016
Remember caring for Populations and Patients is not dependent on a specific tool but how we utilise those tools and apply them for their good.

Cerner Helps Transform Middle East Health Care with Big Data

by Dr. Colin Fincham
October 13, 2016
Engagement is really about ensuring that patients take responsibility and fully participate in their health care management. So we have implemented our Patient Portal both here in the UAE and Qatar. It's a tool that allows patients access to a subset of their medical record.