FAQs/Policies

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How do you decide who to interview?

At healthsystemCIO.com, we exclusively interview hospital and health system CIOs, and are specifically interested in speaking with those who are not already on our extensive Advisory/Survey Panel.  There are two specific exceptions.

Exception 1

CEOs of the “Big 7″ Acute EMR Vendors

  • Epic: Judy Faulkner (Interviewed Prior to healthsystemCIO.com Launch)
  • Siemens Healthcare: John Glaser (John Glaser Interviewed 06/29/10, 02/09/11)
  • McKesson: Dave Souerwine (Interviewed 12/15/11)
  • Allscripts/Eclipsys: Glen Tullman (Interviewed 10/14/10)
  • Cerner: Neal Patterson
  • Meditech: Neil Pappalardo & Howard Messing (Messing Interviewed 05/23/10)
  • GE Healthcare: Jan De Witte (Vishal Wanchoo Interviewed 04/02/10)

Exception 2

  • The authors of KLAS reports

Do you accept contributed content?

If you are a hospital or health system IT executive (CIO, CTO, managing director, etc) interested in writing a piece for publication, please contact us before you start writing. We do not accept articles that are already in final form. We also do not accept inquiries or submissions from third-parties.

Exception 1

Before the above policy went into effect, some bloggers were taken on who were not provider-side IT executives. Those individuals have been grandfathered into the program and may continue posting.

  • Bonnie Siegel, Partner, Healthcare IT and Services Practice, Sanford Rose Associates – Charleston
  • Paul Roemer, Managing Partner, HealthcareITStrategy.com
  • Rich Temple, Senior Consultant, Beacon Partners
  • Vince Ciotti, Principal, HISPros

Exception 2

Executives who began contributing content to healthsystemCIO.com while on the provider side, but have since left that role, may continue contributing.

  • John Schrenker, former CIO, Lakeside Health System, now Assistant Professor & Program Director, Health Information Administration, Roberts Wesleyan College
  • Gerry Higgins, Ph.D., MBA, MS, former Director of Translational Informatics, Johns Hopkins Medicine, now Professor, Genomics and Pathology, Harvard Medical School, Healthcare Innovation Officer, GenomeQuest, Inc.

How can vendors “work with you”?

healthsystemCIO.com is interested in interviewing health system or hospital CIOs who we have not interviewed before. If, as a vendor, a hospital has contracted to use your products or services, and the CIO is willing to do a wide-ranging interview about industry trends — along with their strategic objectives and most pressing challenges — feel free to contact us. While your product or service will come up in the discussion, the interview will not be centered around it. Please review our CIO Advisory/Survey Panel and, if you do not see the name you intend to propose for an interview, contact us.

What is your policy on editorial/sponsorship separation?

We guarantee complete separation between editorial content and sponsorship. Our clear editorial policies make this promise easy to keep.

What should interviewees know about how the process works?

healthsystemCIO.com adheres to all standard journalistic practices. As such, specific questions are not provided before the interview. Sources are encouraged to review past interviews to gain an idea of what types of topics may be covered. Formal interviews usually run between 35 and 50 minutes, are always considered “on the record” and are not subject to review or revision by the interviewee. Of course, if an interviewee notices a factual error upon publication, we will immediately correct it. All interviews are run in the Q&A format, either in a traditional text or as a Podcast (audio file).

How do Podcasts work?

Podcasts are audio recordings of interviews which take place on a healthsystemCIO.com conference line. These audio files are minimally edited before publication. Listeners can enjoy our Podcasts on the healthsystemCIO.com site or subscribe to our feed in iTunes.

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