Kim Ligon, CIO, DCH Health System, Discusses Her CHIME Member-To-Member Survey On IT Steering Committees, Chapter 2

Kim Ligon, CIO, DCH Health System

Ligon’s CHIME survey on IT steering committees
New boss, new priorities
Prioritization and governance
Acceptable rates of change — “There’s only so many things that people can absorb”
The role of nursing in HIT transformation

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Kim Ligon, CIO, DCH Health System, Discusses Her CHIME Member-To-Member Survey On IT Steering Committees, Chapter 1

Kim Ligon, CIO, DCH Health System

Running a Meditech Magic 5.64/LSS shop
Hospital/physician practice integration, HIE
Looking to the states to facilitate integration
The final frontier — inpatient CPOE
Going 6.0 someday?

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Buddy Hickman, EVP/CIO, Albany Medical Center, Discusses His CHIME Survey on HIPAA And IT Security, Chapter 3

Buddy’s main projects
Fitting it all in
Managing new construction

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Buddy Hickman, EVP/CIO, Albany Medical Center, Discusses His CHIME Survey on HIPAA And IT Security, Chapter 2

Breaking down the survey results
Do you add another class? “I’m very sensitive to the number of things that we have going on in the medical center that require workforce members to be trained and aware of.”
Best practice in governance

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Buddy Hickman, EVP/CIO, Albany Medical Center, Discusses His CHIME Survey on HIPAA And IT Security, Chapter 1

Origins and goals of the survey
Breaking down breach scenarios
CHIME’s position on the accounting of disclosures NPRM

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George Evans VP/CIO, St. Joseph’s/Candler Health System, Discusses His CHIME Survey on Building An Informatics Staff, Chapter 2

*Core competencies for clinical informatics staff — nursing is king
*”Anybody who understands how patients get taken care of can be a good informaticist”
*Finding the (salary) range
*About St. Joseph’s/Candler Health System
*Running a Meditech Magic 5.64 shop

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George Evans VP/CIO, St. Joseph’s/Candler Health System, Discusses His CHIME Survey on Building An Informatics Staff, Chapter 1

George Evans VP/CIO, St. Joseph’s/Candler Health System

*Building an informatics staff — weighing technical know-how and clinical experience
*Collaborating with competitors
*Lavely leaves Memorial Health University Medical Center
*The benefits of growing in-house
*Thoughts on the government-sponsored educational programs

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Deborah Gash, VP/CIO, Saint Luke’s Health System, Discusses Her CHIME Survey Results on Employee Retention Strategies, Transcript/Podcast Chapter 3

Retaining talent is one of the biggest challenges CIOs face in today’s ultra-competitive health care IT industry. Between area hospitals that are expanding their IT staffs to meet meaningful use requirements, and vendors that are beefing up their workforce to provide adequate support, it’s become more challenging for CIOs to keep their best workers in [...]

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