Jason Turan

May 3, 2024

A Dozen Suits

One of my favorite shows depicting the Wild West of the technology scene in the 80s and 90s is Halt and Catch Fire. While most know of Lee Pace as the chiseled emperor "Day" from the Apple TV series Foundation, his first cult classic hit was playing the scrappy, determined, and sometimes manipulative tech entrepreneur Joe MacMillan. Jo...

June 29, 2023

Machine Readable Frustration - Part 3

When I started writing this series just over a year ago, I certainly didn't think it would take me this long to finish it. Part 1 was written on June 23rd of last year and covered how healthcare practitioners are structured from a billing perspective; Part 2 was written on February 17th of this year and went a level of complexity deepe...

February 17, 2023

Machine Readable Frustration - Part 2

I pulled a George R.R. Martin: I promised a quick follow-up to Part 1 of this series written six months ago, and just now forced myself to finish it. I'll blame some of that lovingly on my son, who was born in mid-2022 and took up nearly every ounce of my spare time since (worth it). But I also struggled with how to write about this pa...

July 23, 2022

Machine Readable Frustration - Part 1

On July 1st, 2022, the machine-readable file (MRF) requirement of the Transparency in Coverage rules went into effect, which requires insurers and employers to publicly post the prices they pay for healthcare services. This 3-part series will get into the weeds of healthcare billing, healthcare policy, and technical specifications from...

May 23, 2022

Notebook Breadboarding

Breadboarding is one of those concepts I didn't fully appreciate until the last couple of years. For those that never took an electrical engineering course, you may be wondering breadwhat?! I could explain, but a picture is all we need: It's quite simple: a breadboard, also known as a protoboard, is a tool used for the prototyping of e...

February 27, 2022

A Bittersweet Farewell

After eight amazing years at Healthcare Bluebook, it's time for the next chapter in my career. With such a rich history of memories from the time I spent with co-workers, to the patients we helped across the country on a daily basis, I would be remiss to not share one last essay of my time here. Lucky Number 13 I distinctly remember th...

February 22, 2022

The Algebra of Potential

One of my favorite books in recent memory is The Algebra of Happiness by Scott Galloway, or as he's (in)famously know by, Prof G. In this short compilation of witty essays – an easy weekend read – Prof G waxes poetic in the form of math equations to determine how to life a happy and fulfilling life. Here's a great example from the book...

September 29, 2021

Why do you deserve to win this award?

I fall squarely in the category of someone that typically hates attending industry events – conferences, awards shows, fundraisers, galas, etc. – and I think most are a waste of time. Maybe that's due to my social introvert personality, or maybe it's because my experience at 90% of such events has been largely negative from being overr...

September 15, 2021

Twenty Years Later

Sophomore Year My second year of college represented a time when the blurry road of becoming a responsible adult coalesced into something a bit more focused. I was majoring in Digital Media & Mass Communications, primarily to learn about visual effects in the television and film industry, with the goal towards landing a post-graduate j...

August 1, 2021

Different Styles, Same Strategy

Working at a rapidly growing company is an exciting and fortunate position to be in. When the revenue is flowing in from new clients, you find yourself unshackled from many of the restrictions of a smaller startup, and the decision tree of how to approach a particular problem rapidly expands to a dizzying array of paths, each leading t...

June 20, 2021

The Constant

I often think about the intersection of one's personal and professional lives – a reverberation of experiences that reinforce each other as we grow and learn – and how certain concepts persist across both. In my line of work, I spend a lot of time assembling and reviewing equations that predict certain outcomes, and lately I've been th...

May 26, 2021

Management by Mikil

"I'm running a marathon in November," Mikil said calmly from across the table in the small conference room we frequently used for our meetings. It was July 2017, and my mind immediately flashed back to several years prior when some of my friends decided on short notice – likely over one too many drinks – that they would enroll in the N...

April 24, 2021

Oceanic Emotions

Six days ago while on vacation, my 2-year-old daughter Grace woke me and my wife up at 5:30 a.m. with a repititive shout of three words from the guest bedroom: "Mama... Dada... WAWA!". Wawa means water, and Grace was practically climbing out of her Pack 'n Play in anticipation of seeing the morning waves crash along Florida's 30A coast...

April 6, 2021

Attitude reflects leadership... Captain

One of my favorite movie scenes of all-time is from Remember the Titans, when Julius Campbell and Gary Bertier have a heated exchange on working out the differences on their football team. The backdrop is a 1960s America undergoing desegregation, and the tensions between the black and white players has reached a boiling point by the en...

March 31, 2021

Human Intelligence Recruiting

Applying for a job is no small task. You spend hours designing a resume, compiling references, and writing a cover letter. Depending on the position, you might have multiple variants of these materials, slightly tweaking the content for better alignment to the required skillsets. And when you finally hit "submit", you hope for the best...

March 23, 2021

Spies vs Mercs

Until today, I had half a dozen draft messages in the queue for a blog post, and just as I was about to pull the trigger on a finalist for the week, Johnny intervened. Because of this unfortunate turn of events, I now have seven draft messages in the queue, and it's time to push my previous frontrunner post to the backseat and instead ...

March 20, 2021

College Alternatives

This week I was asked to participate in a leadership panel for the Nashville Software School's Data Science program. While I typically shy away from speaking engagements because of my socially introverted personality, I jump at the opportunity to do anything with the NSS. Why? Because I recognize when an organization is offering a mate...

March 12, 2021

Creepy Recruiters

I generally like working with recruiters. When I'm in a time-crunch to make a particular hire and there's not a virtual bench of candidates to pull from, a quick email is often followed a few days later by a list of resumes that are minimally good and sometimes great. Candidates are usually pre-screened, the process is efficient, my ti...

March 11, 2021

Back to Basics

I've always enjoyed writing, but every time I've made an attempt to create a consistent online medium for my thoughts, I was inevitably sucked into spending more time tinkering with blog settings, analyzing user traffic, and ultimately NOT doing what I originally intended – writing actual content. Consequently, each endeavor flamed out...