Lee Powe, CIO, Hugh Chatham Memorial Hospital, Chapter 3

Lee Powe, CIO, Hugh Chatham Memorial Hospital

Best-of-breed vs. consolidated systems
Epic isn’t for everyone
Going from a mid-sized organization to a smaller hospital
Hugh Chatham’s IT push — “We’re showing where technology can take the organization.”
Dealing with red tape
Overseeing IT & HIM

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Joel Vengco, VP & CIO, Baystate Health, Chapter 2

Joel Vengco, VP/CIO, Baystate Health

Transparency + governance = trust
Pioneer Valley Information Exchange Summit – “The idea was to begin the conversations”
The patient poaching issue
Population management and patient consent
Gearing up for analytics

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Finding A New Comfort Zone

Todd Richardson, VP & CIO, Aspirus

As healthcare CIOs, our lives are filled with change in almost every aspect of our job. Most of the changes we deal with, however, are about inflicting change on others as new systems come online and upgrades wreak havoc on our organizations. Despite the constantly changing environment to which we’ve become accustomed, stepping into a [...]

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Joel Vengco, VP & CIO, Baystate Health, Chapter 1

Joel Vengco, VP/CIO, Baystate Health

About Baystate
ACOs & HIEs — “By far, the larger issues are political”
Mass HIWay & the Pioneer Valley Information Exchange
“It’s not about just having the data, it’s what you do with it”
Cracking the sustainability code

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From Governance to Standards: Data Warehousing Decoded

Dale Sanders, Senior Technology Advisor & CIO Mentor, Cayman Islands HSA

Dale Sanders, CIO mentor and senior technology advisor for the Cayman Islands HSA, tackles data warehousing by providing answers to key questions, from what type of governance structure is needed to which core dimensions of analysis are most important. He also breaks down the four data models and talks about buy-in [...]

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Beyond IT: The Expanding Purview Of CIOs

Bonnie Siegel, Healthcare IT Recruiter, Witt/Kieffer

We are seeing the CIO’s role and responsibilities expand as new clinical systems and enterprise technologies are implemented across hospitals and health systems. How many of you have expanded your responsibilities outside of the IT department in the last few years? The three main areas besides telecommunication that are being added to the CIO’s scope [...]

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healthsystemCIO.com Survey Identifies Biggest Hurdles in Hospital M&A

CIOs Say Merging Cultures Is the Biggest Hurdle in M&A

With nearly $2 billion spent on hospital mergers and acquisitions in 2012, consolidation is becoming the new normal in the healthcare industry. And although there are several considerations that leaders must weigh when evaluating a possible deal, one issue that can’t fall by the wayside is change management. According to the March healthsystemCIO.com Snap Survey, [...]

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Bill Rieger, CIO, Flagler Hospital, Chapter 3

Bill Rieger, CIO, Flagler Hospital

HIE hesitancy
Becoming Flagler’s first CIO
From no IT governance to rolling out an EMR — “We had to use tools at the same time we were building them.”
Challenges with change management
The CIO network
Making the case for a CMIO

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