healthsystemCIO – Strategies for Hospital IT Leaders

After more than a decade of collecting data, “it’s time to figure out how to best leverage that information to drive insight and drive change,” said Brian Norris in this interview. And CMIOs should be one of the leaders helping to navigate that path. Source: Q&A with CNIO Brian Norris, Part 1: “We Have Lots of Data. What Do We Do with It?” on healthsystemcio.com - Interviews & Webinars with Health...

Erik Decker, VP and CISO at Intermountain Healthcare, says consistently getting the basics of cybersecurity right goes a very long way to keeping an organization secure. Source: Q&A With Intermountain Healthcare’s Erik Decker: Business Continuity Depends on Developing the ‘Muscle Memory’ to Handle Cyber Events on healthsystemcio.com - Interviews & Webinars with Health System IT Leaders

Renown Health VP/CISO Steven Ramirez says understanding the clinical side of the house (both his parents are providers) has helped him stay flexible while implementing security controls. Source: Q&A with Renown Health CISO Steven Ramirez: “Rather Than Saying No, Find a Way to Compromise” on healthsystemcio.com - Interviews & Webinars with Health System IT Leaders

Most health systems are moving (or considering moving) much of their data to the cloud, hoping to realize the promise of enhanced analytics and reporting capabilities when all that information is freed from its on-prem silos. However, for many organizations that have made the move, the promise has yet to be realized. Factors causing this suboptimal situation include lack of a comprehensive roadmap...

“Digital encompasses so many things we’re doing,” said HSS CIO Jamie Nelson, who talked about her team’s holistic digital strategy during a recent podcast. She also discussed the “unintended consequences” of remote work models, the challenge for women leaders, and why there is no ‘normal.’ Source: Q&A with HSS CIO Jamie Nelson, Part 2: “Digital Encompasses So Much of What We’re Doing.” on healthsy...

True digital transformation can only be built upon a data ecosystem in which information moves across applications, ultimately coming together to form a more complete picture of the patient. And that data can only come together correctly when the identity element -- whether for individual patient records or patient-provider matching -- has been resolved. In this important webinar, we'll speak to l...

Samantha Jacques, PhD, VP of clinical engineering at McLaren Health Care, says patient safety must drive all health system executives to work together on IT-security issues. Source: Q&A with McLaren Health Care VP of Clinical Engineering Samantha Jacques: CISOs and Clinical Engineers Cannot Afford to be Strangers on healthsystemcio.com - Interviews & Webinars with Health System IT Leaders

CISOs must provide organizational leaders with all the information they need to make sound, risk-based decisions, says Dennis Leber, PhD, Interim CISO, UConn Health. Source: Q&A with UConn Health Interim CISO Dennis Leber: In the Cyberwar, Speak Your CEO’s Language on healthsystemcio.com - Interviews & Webinars with Health System IT Leaders

Although offering flexibility and expanding the hiring region can certainly help with recruiting and retaining IT talent, leaders need to “make their daily lives and jobs more meaningful,” said CIO Chris Akeroyd in a recent interview. Source: Q&A with Children’s Health CIO Chris Akeroyd, Part 2: “This Is a Great Time to be Doing What We’re Doing.” on healthsystemcio.com - Interviews & Webinars wit...

By all accounts, there have been significant advances in the ERP software market over the last few years, leaving CIOs with the opportunity to introduce these new features to their health systems for evaluation. In addition to new features, today's ERP suites can live in the cloud, potentially freeing up staff and data-center space for other things. In this webinar, we'll cover the gamut of ERP de...

When it comes to IT security at hospitals, the third and even fourth-party risk involved has expanded the front line from a moated castle to everywhere, says Jason Elrod, CISO for MultiCare Health System. Source: Q&A with MultiCare Health System CISO Jason Elrod: “Everyone in the Organization is on My Security Team” on healthsystemcio.com - Interviews & Webinars with Health System IT Leaders

Most healthcare security programs and regulations focus on protecting data, but such an approach can leave many necessary steps undone when it comes to medical devices. Unlike many threats, cyberattacks on medical devices have direct and immediate patient safety ramifications, which those leading security must consider. And when considered, those executives soon realize they must build stronger re...

In order to properly support the needs of clinicians and patients, many health systems are taking large parts of their computing to the cloud. But the new environment doesn't come without a heightened level of risk. To mitigate that risk, CIOs and CISOs are increasing their reliance on highly specific threat intelligence. In this important webinar, we'll hear from leaders about how they leverage s...

Before the ultimate goals of becoming a data-driven organization and moving to 100 percent virtual can be achieved, leaders need to build a solid culture based on “systemness," said Sonney Sapra, CIO at Samaritan Health Services, in this interview. Source: Q&A with Samaritan Health CIO Sonney Sapra, Part 1: “Cultural shifts take time, and we’ll keep moving.” on healthsystemcio.com - Interviews & W...

Recently, some pioneering health systems have partnered with cloud providers to move much of their computing off prem. Among the reasons cited for such moves are improved data availability, computing flexibility, as-needed access to advanced capabilities like advanced analytics, NLP, etc. and as-a-service consumption models nearing parity with on-premises costs -- all of which resonate with CIOs w...

“Innovation is not just about spinning up a company; it’s about making care better,” said Lisa Stump, Chief Information and Digital Transformation Officer at Yale New Haven Health. In this interview, she talks about dealing with turnover, finding opportunities to cut costs, and how her team survived Covid. Source: Q&A with Yale New Haven Health’s Lisa Stump, Part 2: “We Need to Think Very Differen...

“Those are eye-opening conversations when people start to understand their consumption and hear the message that IT isn’t free,” said CIO Chris Akeroyd. In this podcast, he talks about how his team is improving the digital experience and the importance of strategic alignment. Source: Q&A with Children’s Health CIO Chris Akeroyd, Part 1: Digital Tools, Financial Transparency & “Fluid Conversations”...

John Halamka, MD, president of the Mayo Clinic Platform, provides the latest updates on national HIT policy and prognosticates on future direction. Source: HIT Policy Update on healthsystemcio.com - Interviews & Webinars with Health System IT Leaders

With rising expenses and workforce shortages impacting financial performance, healthcare IT executives are facing difficult choices about their digital roadmaps — what remains a priority, what is postponed, and what is eliminated altogether. And as budgets become tighter, it is more important than ever to ensure a solid ROI for every digital initiative. In this webinar, we’ll hear from leaders abo...

For Yale-New Haven Health, one of the key components in being able to successfully launch a hospital-at-home initiative was maintaining “the simple connectivity and continuity of the medical record,” said Lisa Stump, SVP and Chief Information and Digital Transformation Officer, in a recent podcast interview. Source: Q&A with Lisa Stump, Part 1: Yale New Haven Health’s Approach to Launching a Hospi...

Health systems today face increasing odds of a breach, and that’s what drives Rishi Tripathi, CISO at Mount Sinai Health System in New York City. “There is an opportunity for us to step up and do a far better job than we do protecting our banks or factories, because this is literally life and death.” Source: Q&A with Mount Sinai Health System CISO Rishi Tripathi: Healthcare Can Leapfrog Other Indu...

In a fee-for-service world, analytics are nice to have, but in a value-based one, they are the difference between operational success and failure. That's because solid analytics mean better and more timely care, while also helping avoid that which is unnecessary and repetitive. In this timely webinar, we'll speak to leaders who have specifically worked to develop the technologies and overall analy...

George T. "Buddy" Hickman has been “very, very involved in health IT,” as a CIO for the past 24 years, and in other capacities. Now as the chief strategy officer with First Health Advisory, a global risk management and digital transformation advisory firm, he imparts his vast industry knowledge to others as part of his daily job. In this episode of healthsystemCIO’s Partner Perspective Interview S...

By enabling those who use systems to make decisions on the build, organizations can achieve better efficiencies while also improving long-term adoption, said Stacey Johnson, MD, Chief Applications Officer at Baptist Health. “That’s good change management.” Source: Q&A with Baptist Health CAO Stacey Johnston, Part 2: “I’m Trying to Make It as Easy as Possible.” on healthsystemcio.com - Interviews &...

The ultimate challenge for a CISO is to get all of an enterprise’s stakeholders to recognize that IT is not just in the security game to protect the data, it has the organization’s bottom line and care outcomes at heart, says Michael Carr, VP, CTO and CISO at Health First. Source: Q&A with Health First VP, CISO & CTO Michael Carr: “We Must Make Sure the Business Understands the Risks it is Accepti...