What Healthcare Has to Learn from Sean Connery

The 1990 classic action film The Hunt for Red October provides a lot of great scenes and one liners. One, in particular, has always stuck with me: the moment when Connery’s character, Russian Submarine Captain Marko Ramius, directs his crew into a narrow passage on the ocean floor and they clearly think he is insane. The film cuts between different clips of the crew members becoming more and more nervous. Ramius gives precise instructions and navigates them through troubled waters. The solution was relatively simple: know your environment, trust your instruments, and align the organization.

What does that have to do with healthcare and data?

Knowing your environment.