The Diagnostic Clinic Series
Codified diagnostic lenses for reading healthcare systems before action is taken.
Occiden's books are not educational resources or operational manuals.
They exist to codify diagnostic judgement - to make visible the structural patterns that quietly shape outcomes in healthcare systems long before failure appears.
Some lens are foundational.
Some are system-specific.
Some orient leaders to emerging capability domains.
They are not equal in purpose - and are not intended to be read as such.
Core Diagnostic Lenses
These volumes encode Occiden's core diagnostic framework.
They are written o heal leader's identify structural loss, governance blind spots, and decision misalignment before effort, optimization, or scale magnifies the wrong assumptions.
This is the foundation of Occiden's work.
The Diagnostic Clinic
Core Edition
The foundational diagnostic lens for identifying structural loss in healthcare systems before it manifests burnout, inefficiency or financial compression.
This volume focuses on:
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Decision paths and decision delay
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Structural blind spots masked by activity
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Governance failures misdiagnosed as workload issues
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Signal vs noise in complex systems
The Diagnostic Clinic
Dermatology & Aesthetics Special Edition
A specialty-specific diagnostic framework for high-revenue clinical environments where surface-level success often masks deeper system misalignment.
This volume focuses on:
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Revenue density vs revenue illusion
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Decision timing in premium clinical models
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Capacity illusion in high-performing clinics
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Speciality-specific leakage that doesn't register as failure
Applied Diagnostic Playbooks
Some diagnostic work must be read through a defined structural environment.
These playbooks are Occiden's diagnostic lens within specific policy and incentive frameworks where governance, funding models, decision risk materially shape outcomes.
PCPCM Playbook for Clinics
A policy- specific diagnostic playbook for clinics operating under Alberta's Physician Comprehensive Care Model.
This playbook is designed to help clinic leadership:
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Interpret PCPCM beyond surface incentives
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Identify structural risks before implementation decisions
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Understand where clinics quietly lose margin or flexibility
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Avoid misaligned operational responses to funding change
This is not a compliance guide.
It is a diagnostic lens applied to a defined system.
Strategic Capability Briefings
Some volumes are designed to orient leadership to emerging capability domains where tooling, technology, and systems thinking intersect.
These briefings do not replay diagnostic work.
They contextualize it.
Digital Transformation & AI Adaptation in Healthcare
A strategic orientation guide examining how digital transformation and AI initiatives interact with governance, decision timing, and system design in healthcare
This volume explores:
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Why technology initiatives fail without structural clarity
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How tools amplify existing system misalignment
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Where digital investments quietly underperform
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How AD adoption reshapes decision responsibility
This is not a modernization guide.
It is a framing document.
Each volume is designed to be read before action is taken.
Some leaders begin with a foundational diagnostic lens.
Others arrive through a system-specific or capability driven question.
What matters is not where reading begins - but that systems are read correctly before effort compounds the wrong outcomes.