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July 19: Today on TownHall Reid Stephan , VP, Chief Information Officer at St. Luke's Health System interviews Jeff Bird , System Vice President Information Security at PeaceHealth about his path to health IT and the ongoing labor shortage. What current risks and threats in the IT field keep him up at night? What is PeaceHealth doing to attract talent to help mitigate the labor shortage?

July 14: Today on TownHall, Sue Schade , Principal at StarBridge Advisors speaks with Bonnie Goans, RN and Trauma/Emergency Preparedness Coordinator of Rice County District Hospital in Lyons,KS. They talk about how technology that was first implemented at the start of the pandemic has enabled them to broaden the hospital's patient transport reach and how they can quickly coordinate transfer and tr...

July 12: Today on TownHall, This Week Health’s very own Bill Russell speaks with the WakeMed CMIO/CIO team of Neal Chawla (CMIO) and Peter Marks (VP and CIO). They talk about how they work together to overcome challenges and understand each other's perspectives. How did they transition to a more data-driven organization? How does clinical transformation evolve out of that work?

July 7: Today on TownHall, we’re sharing another highlight from our visit to the Scottsdale Institute conference. In this episode, Bill Russell speaks with Nicholas Archer , Vice President, Ventures Operations at AdventHealth about home based care and launching new businesses in the field to provide better health care services. We get to see what hospital at home looks like reimagined. Nick sees a...

July 5: Today on TownHall Samuel Hill , Director of Product Marketing at Medigate speaks with Steven Rubino , former Biomedical Engineer and Project Manager at Scripps Health about the importance of collaboration between Biomedical Engineers and IT Departments to improve care. Then, Samuel and Steven run through the top 7 myths and misconceptions about medical devices and cybersecurity. What has c...

June 30: Today on TownHall Sue Schade , Principal at StarBridge Advisors has an intriguing conversation with Carrie Rahman , Applications Supervisor - Electronic Health Systems of Douglas Omaha Technology Commission (DOTComm) to talk about going from pencil and paper to an EHR system at the county’s youth centers. This episode provided a short and sweet dive into the implementation of communicatio...

June 28: Today on TownHall Brett Oliver , CMIO at Baptist Health , has an intriguing conversation with Steven Lane , Practicing Primary Care Physician & Clinical Informaticist of Sutter Health concerning interoperability and his journey into the world of informatics and what started him on that path. How does he see TEFCA and Carequality working together in the future? What does he see as ways...

June 23: Today on Townhall Mark Weisman , CIO and CMIO at TidalHealth interviews Anurag Jindal , Executive Director Regional CMIO at Providence St. Joseph Health about his new role as a CMIO as well as the lessons and challenges that the role has brought forth in his first 90 days. Anurag brings forth a refreshing perspective in this episode, his mindset when taking on a new role is one to adopt....

June 21: Today on Townhall Jake Lancaster , Chief Medical Information Officer at Baptist Memorial Health Care interviews Dara Mize , Assistant Professor in Biomedical Informatics and Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center on the center’s clinical informatics fellowship program. Who can be a part of the fellowship? How does it differ from a traditional clinical fellowship? What are some n...

June 16: Today on TownHall, Jeffrey Sunshine , CMIO at University Hospitals talks with Bill about data quality, the pace and scope of change in healthcare IT, and using data for predictive modeling. How does he see the pace of IT changes transitioning in the near term? What is something he is looking to implement in the next year to add value to his organization.

June 14: Today on TownHall, Brian Young , a System Physician Informaticist at CommonSpirit Health talks with Bill about analytics, AI, and the communication between his team and physicians in a 138 hospital system. Where does Brian see analytics and predictive modeling moving into the future? What is a top of mind problem that he is currently working to solve? How does he introduce new systems to...

June 9: Today on TownHall, Jennifer Junis , Senior Vice President at OSF Healthcare - OnCall Digital Health talks with Bill about digital health and its impact on health in the community. How does she deal with the challenge of ill-equipped homes for digital health? What potential does she see with asynchronous telehealth visits? What does OSF Healthcare do to impact health in the communities?

June 7, 2022: Darren Dworkin , Chief Strategy Officer at Press Ganey  talks with Bill about his former CIO role and how it differs from his new position. Why did he leave his role at Cedars-Senai and make the move to Press Ganey?

June 2, 2022: Today on TownHall Mark Weisman , CIO and CMIO at TidalHealth interviews Mark Crowe , Director of IT Innovations at Sentara Healthcare about creating the hospital of the future. What does he look for when choosing what new technologies to implement? How can smart TVs be used to improve the patient experience? How does he get early adopters on board with new technologies?

May 31: Dr. Flo Falayi , Client Partner at Korn Ferry talks with Bill about leadership development and inclusive leadership. What are the skills he is looking to develop in inclusive leaders? How does his coaching vary between leaders and boards?

May 26: Joseph Evans , VP & CMIO at Sentara Healthcare discusses resilience, burnout, and how AI can step in to help. How can AI be utilized to help alleviate burnout? Where else is he looking to apply technology? What predictive models does he implement?

May 24: Today on TownHall Brett Oliver , CMIO at Baptist Health interviews Ray Costantini , Co-Founder & Board Member of Bright.md about his entrepreneurial background, and common mistakes and misconceptions for startups in the healthcare field. What does a physician bring to a startup that others can't? What do health systems get wrong about startups? Where does he see potential threats and p...

May 19: Andrew Rosenberg MD, CIO at Michigan Medicine shares his vision of the future of healthcare technology. What innovations can we work on now that are going to have the most impact in 10 years time? Hope you enjoy.

May 17: Today on TownHall Reid Stephan , VP and CIO at St. Lukes interviews Onur Torusoglu , Associate Principal, Digital Health Leader at ECG Management Consultants . Why is digital health and analytics so hard in healthcare? Is it a by-product of the complexities of our industry? Or do we just make it too hard on ourselves? What advice would you give to an organization today to make the evolutio...

Today on TownHall Sue Schade , Principal at StarBridge Advisors interviews Pamela Arora, President and CEO of AAMI . The Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation is a diverse community of more than 10,000 professionals united by one important mission - the development, management and use of safe and effective health technology. What are some of the challenges between IT and healt...

May 10: Today on Townhall, Samuel Hill , Director of Product Marketing at Medigate interviews Justin Heyl , Director, Enterprise Risk Management for Baxter International to discuss the challenge of closing the vulnerability reporting loop between Hospitals and Device Manufacturers. Healthcare systems know their threats. They know their vulnerabilities. And if they see something that needs to be ch...

May 5: Today on Townhall, Brett Oliver , Family Physician and Chief Medical Information Officer at Baptist Health interviews Michael Erickson , CISO at Baptist Health, Louisville, Kentucky. How far has healthcare come in terms of cyber protection over the past few years? Will we ever get to “bank level” security? Do we want to? How does the ever evolving world of cyber insurance affect the average...

May 3: Today on TownHall Jake Lancaster , Chief Medical Information Officer at Baptist Memorial Health Care interviews Priya Ramaswamy , Clinical Informatics Fellow/Anesthesiologist at UCSF . What is sustainable healthcare informatics? Not just in the US but across the globe, healthcare organizations are taking a stance to make a healthier ecosystem for people. Anesthetic gasses have damaging effe...

April 21: Today on Townhall, Brett Oliver , Family physician and Chief Medical Information Officer at Baptist Health interviews Coleman Smith , Emerging Practice Lead at Himformatics. Coleman is a regulatory expert educating on trends in healthcare and regulatory compliance programs. What positive aspects have we seen with the implementation of the Cure’s Act? Are there unintended consequences? Ho...

April 19: Today on TownHall Jake Lancaster , Chief Medical Information Officer at Baptist Memorial Health Care interviews Mark Zhang , Associate CMIO at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Medical Director at Brigham Digital Innovation Hub . Launched in 2013, the Hub matchmakes market solutions with internal challenges, accelerates the development, use and commercialization of Brigham-developed solut...