healthsystemCIO – Strategies for Hospital IT Leaders

The elevator has an internet connection. So does the HVAC unit and the hot-water sanitizer. Three healthcare CISOs explain why this expanding inventory now drives the field's biggest cyber risk and which control buys back the most time. Source: Cyber Leaders Warn OT Blind Spots May Hide Unacceptable Risk; Network Segmentation Key Countermeasure on healthsystemcio.com - Interviews & Webinars with H...

TEFCA asks providers to trust every query arriving at their door. Some of those queries turned out to have litigation on the other end. Dayton Children's CIO explains why stronger controls are now table stakes, and what pediatrics adds. Source: Dayton Children’s Whitlock Says TEFCA Trust Model Needs Stronger Guardrails to Stop Data Misuse on healthsystemcio.com - Interviews & Webinars with Health...

Your analytics team keeps shipping work that misses the mark. UNC Health’s Rachini Moosavi says the fix starts well before the first line of code. Source: UNC Health’s Moosavi Says Analytics Teams Must Deeply Understand Requests Before Moving Forward; No Place for Ticket-Taking on healthsystemcio.com - Interviews & Webinars with Health System IT Leaders

Chuck Podesta, CIO, Renown Health; Roshan Hussain, SVP and Chief Data Analytics Officer, RWJBarnabas Health; and Sarang Deshpande, VP, Data and Analytics, Franciscan Alliance, discuss the data platform modernization required to support agentic AI in healthcare. The panelists cover Databricks and Snowflake migrations, the case for in-house development as Epic build cycles lengthen, and fast-track A...

Providers want stricter gatekeeping on TEFCA, and the National Coordinator says changes are coming. What enforcement tools does a government-administered network actually bring to the table? Source: ONC’s Keane Says Government Will Strengthen TEFCA Onboarding to Address Provider Privacy Concerns on healthsystemcio.com - Interviews & Webinars with Health System IT Leaders

Most health systems are deploying AI tools faster than they can evaluate them. Penn State Health’s informaticists explain why piloting with discipline and designing for the clinician workflow separates lasting gains from expensive disappointments. Source: Penn State Health’s DeFlitch & Hijjawi Say Past Lessons Can Help Guide Today’s AI Implementations on healthsystemcio.com - Interviews & Webinars...

Most health systems trust vendors to solve their population health data problems. Corewell’s Associate CMIO explains why that approach collapsed and what his team built instead to bridge the gap between clinical complexity and enterprise analytics. Source: Corewell Health’s Jarve Says Population Health Data Challenges Demand Internal Builds on healthsystemcio.com - Interviews & Webinars with Healt...

How should health systems prepare to operate when their EHR goes down? In this healthsystemCIO webinar sponsored by Interlace Health, three healthcare IT leaders share how their organizations approach operational resilience during planned and unplanned downtime events. Source: IT Leaders Say Downtime Prep is a System-Wide Responsibility; Practicing the Plan is Essential on healthsystemcio.com - In...

Most CIOs are still focused on getting the EMR right. One health system has already moved past that and into spatial computing, with a practicing surgeon leading the charge. The path they followed holds lessons for everyone else. Source: Sharp HealthCare’s Korn Says Spatial Computing Gives Clinicians Superpowers, But Demands a Strong IT Foundation on healthsystemcio.com - Interviews & Webinars wit...

Most health systems think their EHR works fine because no one complains. Three physician-leaders explain why that silence is the real problem and how strategic governance and workflow rigor set the stage for AI that actually delivers. Source: Leaders Break Down Keys to EMR Optimization; Warn Unaddressed Friction Speeds Burnout on healthsystemcio.com - Interviews & Webinars with Health System IT Le...

Panel discussion on EMR optimization with Dr. Hannah Galvin, Dr. Ash Goel, and Dr. Marc Tobias. Source: EMR Optimization: Why Ambient AI Can’t Fix a Broken EHR on healthsystemcio.com - Interviews & Webinars with Health System IT Leaders

When clinicians and IT leaders build together from the start, the results speak for themselves. Rush's Associate CMIO shares the partnership playbook behind a handoff tool adopted by 25 health systems and an AI chatbot built in two weekends. Source: Rush University Medical Center’s Rojas Explains How IT & Clinicians Can Truly Partner on healthsystemcio.com - Interviews & Webinars with Health Syste...

Keith Duemling explains why Catholic Health treats cybersecurity as a chronic condition requiring continuous management rather than an episodic fix. Managing cybersecurity at a health system is less like performing surgery and more like treating diabetes. That is the operating philosophy Keith Duemling, VP/CISO at Catholic Health, brought to his first year leading the security […] Source: Catholic...

Christina Kochan, Healthcare Solution Architect at CTG, explains why organizing clinical informatics teams by service line instead of by application reveals workflow gaps that product-focused IT structures miss, and how value stream mapping can follow the patient across every handoff, system, and care setting to eliminate friction. Source: CTG’s Kochan Says Patient-Centric Workflow Mapping Exposes...

Simon Nazarian explains why City of Hope builds AI governance into the technical foundation to move beyond pilots and ensure safe, scaled clinical care. City of Hope has built a proprietary generative AI platform that converts thousands of pages of patient medical records into actionable clinical summaries in seconds, saving physicians hours of after-hours chart […] Source: City of Hope’s Nazarian...

Nurses at HCA Healthcare carry more than 100,000 smartphones on the job every day, part of a decade-long mobile strategy that has fundamentally reshaped how the nation’s largest for-profit health system delivers bedside care. One of the architects of that clinical technology strategy, Sherri Hess, VP/CNIO, says the devices are only as valuable as the […] Source: HCA’s Hess Says Key to Supporting C...

Julie Demaree explains how St. Mary’s Healthcare optimized medication alerts and clinician rounding to earn a solid Leapfrog safety grade on a rural budget. A 130-bed independent hospital in Amsterdam, New York, earned a Leapfrog B safety grade by tackling one of the most daunting challenges in clinical IT: getting medication alerts right. St. Mary’s […] Source: St. Mary’s Demaree Says Small Rural...

Epic is working with a North Dakota health system to build a streamlined implementation model for smaller organizations, a move that could reshape how community hospitals and regional systems access the company’s platform. The collaboration grew out of an unlikely proving ground: a simultaneous Epic and Workday go-live at Trinity Health in Minot, N.D., where […] Source: Trinity Health’s McDaniel S...

Hospitals will only adopt AI as fast as their least-prepared workers can absorb it: that’s the operating principle behind the AI strategy at one of Ireland’s largest academic medical centers. Dr. Guido Giunti, chief data officer at St. James’s Hospital Dublin, is building his entire digital transformation around a literacy-first model, investing in education and […] Source: St. James Hospital Dubl...

Penn Medicine’s radiology department has spent nearly seven years building an AI governance process from the ground up, and the biggest lesson has nothing to do with algorithms. It’s about people: engaging stakeholders early, respecting their time, and recognizing that deploying AI in clinical settings demands a fundamentally different approach than rolling out traditional software. […] Source: Pe...

Nebraska Medicine has built and deployed 25 generative AI tools in-house, and its Chief Transformation and Digital Officer says the economics have changed enough that any health system willing to invest in a small data science team can do the same. The Omaha-based academic health system—once among the first to pilot ambient scribes and a […] Source: Nebraska Medicine’s Hasselberg Says Foundation M...

A 25-bed critical access hospital in southern Colorado just made a bet that Oracle Health’s AI-native EHR will let it punch well above its weight. Mt. San Rafael Hospital and Clinics, based in Trinidad, Colo., signed with Oracle Health in December 2025 after evaluating Oracle, Epic, Meditech, and several other vendors for a new enterprise […] Source: Mt. San Rafael Selects Oracle for EHR Platform;...

Patient contact centers at health systems handle 40 to 50 times more calls per day than IT service desks/contact centers, yet many organizations still treat them as fixed operational costs with little room for strategic improvement. In this interview from the ViVE conference, part of our Partner Perspective series, CTG’s Joseph Esdale, Strategic Solutions Partner, […] Source: CTG’s Esdale and Koch...

Charlie Harp, founder and CEO of Clinical Architecture, explains why healthcare’s data quality shortcomings pose the biggest threat to AI adoption across health systems. In an interview at the ViVE Conference, he describes how decades of clinical data collected as a byproduct of care delivery lacks the precision AI applications demand. Harp shares strategies for building data quality programs that...

Dawud Gordon, PhD, CEO and co-founder of Twosense, a Brooklyn-based cybersecurity startup, explains how behavioral biometrics can solve healthcare’s passwordless authentication challenge. In this episode of our Partner Perspective Interview Series recorded at the ViVE conference, Gordon describes why traditional tools like Windows Hello and passkeys fail in clinical environments with shared workst...