CIO Podcast by Healthcare IT Today

For the 43rd episode of the CIO podcast hosted by Healthcare IT Today, we sat down with Henry Vynalek, Director of HIE & IT Operations at Ohio Health Information Partnership . This time we’re diving into the world of HIEs! We look at what the IT stack looks like for an HIE. Next we discuss the biggest challenges HIEs are facing. Vynalek then shares what interoperability challenge he wish...

For the 42nd episode of the CIO podcast hosted by Healthcare IT Today, we sat down with Donald McGruder, Chief Information and Revenue Integrity Officer at South Shore Hospital Chicago , at the HCP Conference . This time we’re diving into revenue cycle management (RCM). McGruder shares the topics and projects he’s keeping an eye out for. Then, we discuss his expanding risk surface when...

For the 41st episode of the CIO podcast hosted by Healthcare IT Today, we sat down with Dave Henderson, CIO at Millennium Health to talk about reducing drug overdoses. We dive into his work on creating the Emerging Threats Intelligence (ETI) Programs and how he got Involvement from the larger community. Next we take a look at the role of technology and data in the making of ETI Programs. Lastly, H...

For the 40th episode of the CIO podcast hosted by Healthcare IT Today, we sat down with Mark Weisman, MD, CIO at TidalHealth to talk about legacy applications and EHR data conversion. First, we dive into his move from CMIO to CIO and how that shift has gone for him.  Then, we ask him about TidalHealth’s move from Cerner to Epic and the process he went through and lessons learned. Next, we di...

For the 39th episode of the CIO podcast hosted by Healthcare IT Today, we sat down with Linda Stevenson, CIO at Fisher-Titus Medical Center. In this episode we’re diving into the world of Telehealth and Linda Stevenson’s experience with implementing it at her rural health organization during the COVID rush and then their move to a more long term telehealth solution integrated with thei...

For the 38th episode of the CIO podcast hosted by Healthcare IT Today, we sat down with Rusty Yeager, Senior VP and CIO at Encompass Health. This time we’re taking a look into EHR strategies and their standardization on the Oracle Cerner solution. Yeager shares details on the rollout of the EHR and the value of having a standard EHR across the enterprise.  We also ask Yeager about other tech...

For the 37th episode of the CIO podcast hosted by Healthcare IT Today, we sat down with Patrick McGill, MD, EVP, Chief Transformation Officer at Community Health Network.  McGill shares some of the exciting projects he’s worked on and what made those projects a success.  We also ask him what technologies he’s watching but hasn’t implemented yet that he thinks will eventually be i...

For the 36th episode of the CIO podcast hosted by Healthcare IT Today, we sat down with Kathy Azeez-Narain, Chief Digital Officer at Hoag. We dive into the current state of Digital Transformation in healthcare and examine how it’s progressing. She shares some lessons she’s learned from American Express about digital strategy. We then discuss how marketing plays into your digital strate...

For the 35th episode of the CIO podcast hosted by Healthcare IT Today, we sat down with Ed Boze, Chief Innovation Officer at City of Paterson.  While this is a bit of departure from our usual healthcare provider organization CIOs, we thought the work that Boze and his team at City of Paterson were doing along with a recent $1 million grant they got from Bloomberg for their work was worthy of inclu...

For the 34th episode of the CIO podcast hosted by Healthcare IT Today, we sat down with Leanne Harvey, CIO of Harvard Medical Faculty Physicians at BIDMC.  We dive into telehealth with Harvey to learn about where BIDMC is at 2 years post COVID.  She shares some of the lessons learned.  Plus, we ask her about whether telehealth has an impact on physician burnout.  Finally, we ask her what’s t...

For the 33rd episode of the CIO podcast hosted by Healthcare IT Today, we sat down with Steve Hess, CIO at UCHealth.  In this episode we dive into the topic of healthcare AI.  Hess shares whether he thinks AI is just a nice to have or whether it’s become a must have in healthcare.  Plus, he shares some practical insights into how healthcare organizations should be thinking about and embracin...

For the 32nd episode of the CIO podcast hosted by Healthcare IT Today, we sat down with Tom Selva, MD, CMIO at University of Missouri Health Care.  In this discussion, we talk about Dr. Selva and his team winning the 2021 HIMSS Davies Award and what it meant to him and his organization.  Plus, he shares the amazing three projects they submitted to win the award.  Along with learning about these in...

For the 31st episode of the CIO podcast hosted by Healthcare IT Today, we sat down with Jesse Fasolo, Director, Technology Infrastructure & Cyber Security, Information Security Officer at St. Joseph’s Health.  Fasolo provided a unique perspective since he’s the CISO at St. Joseph’s Health, but he also has responsibility for the infrastructure.  That means he has responsibilit...

For the 30th episode of the CIO podcast hosted by Healthcare IT Today, we sat down with David Chou , a popular Healthcare Executive who is a great follow on Twitter @dchou1107 .  In this episode, Chou shares his perspectives on digital transformation in healthcare including the top 3 things health IT organizations should be embracing as part of their digital transformation efforts.  He also shares...

For the 29th episode of the CIO podcast hosted by Healthcare IT Today, we sat down with Ray Lowe, Senior Vice President, Chief Information Officer at AltaMed, during the HIMSS 2022 conference in Orlando.  Along with talking about some of the high level leadership experience of Lowe, we also dove into the legacy application and archiving project he did with the team at Harmony Healthcare IT . These...

For the 28th episode of the CIO podcast hosted by Healthcare IT Today, we sat down with Skip Rollins, Chief Information Officer and Chief Information Security Officer at Freeman Health with Colin Hung as host.  Rollins shares about the staffing crunch and how he’s helping his organization through the challenge.  Then, Rollins dives into what a good technology partnership looks like and wheth...

For the 27th episode of the CIO podcast hosted by Healthcare IT Today, we sat down with Michael Saad, Senior VP and CIO at The University of Tennessee Medical Center.  In this episode we learn about Saad’s experience outside of healthcare and what we can learn from that background.  Plus, we dive into a number of workforce related challenges including: the health IT talent shortage, gender i...

For the 26th episode of the CIO podcast hosted by Healthcare IT Today, we sat down with Lee David Milligan, MD, CHCIO, CIO at Asante Health System.  For those that follow along closely, you may remember Milligan from this previous interview and he carries over the great knowledge sharing in this episode. First, we dive into various areas of innovation he’s working on when it comes to patient...

For the 25th episode of the CIO podcast hosted by Healthcare IT Today, we sat down with Aaron Martin, DexCare Board Member & Executive Vice President and Chief Digital Officer at Providence.  Martin provides a really unique view into what I think is happening at many hospitals and health systems when it comes to embracing digital health technologies and the new title of Chief Digital Officer. ...

For the 24th episode of the CIO podcast hosted by Healthcare IT Today, we sat down with Ed Marx, Chief Digital Officer at Tech Mahindra Health and Life Sciences and Former CIO at Cleveland Clinic and a number of other organizations.  In this episode, Marx shares insights into what he’s hearing from CIOs when it comes to the latest wave of COVID to hit healthcare organizations and what impact...

For the 23rd episode of the CIO podcast hosted by Healthcare IT Today, we sat down with Drex DeFord, Former CIO and Executive Healthcare Strategist at Crowdstrike .  In this ripped from the headlines episode, we talk about two major security breaches that impacted healthcare in a massive way.  Those are the Log4j vulnerability which impacted thousands and thousands of systems world wide and the Kr...

For the 22nd episode of the CIO podcast hosted by Healthcare IT Today, we sat down with Naomi Lenane, CIO & VP of Information Services at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.  In this episode Lenane shares some of the unique aspects of her job as CIO of a Cancer Institute.  Plus, we look back at her early career as a marketing rep for MEDITECH and how she went from working at an EHR vendor to become...

For the 21st episode of the CIO podcast hosted by Healthcare IT Today, we sat down with Dirk Stanley, MD, CMIO at UConn Health.  Dirk Stanley is a long time friend of Healthcare IT Today from our times on social media (You can find Dirk @DirkStanley ) and he has an outstanding CMIO blog where he covers many of the healthcare informatics nuances he faces every day. In this episode, we dive into his...

For the 20th episode of the CIO podcast hosted by Healthcare IT Today, we sat down with Bryan Bliven, Chief Information Officer at MU Health Care.  MU Health Care was recently awarded the HIMSS Davies Award as one of only nine healthcare organizations that have been selected as a Davies award winner twice.  In this episode, we talk about their HIMSS Davies Award submission and the impact these eff...

For the 19th episode of the CIO podcast hosted by Healthcare IT Today, we sat down with Jimmy Weeks, IT Strategist at Thomas Jefferson Health and a former CIO at the CHIME 2021 Fall Forum event.  This was our first CIO podcast episode to be recorded live on site with someone as opposed to on Zoom.  It was fun to be together with all the CIOs that made it to the CHIME Fall Forum. While Jimmy Weeks...