“It’s a Great Place to Be”: CIO Ed Kopetsky on Building a Strong & Resilient Culture
The CIO isn’t going away anytime soon; but it is transforming, according to Ed Kopetsky. “We’re not just computer geeks; we’re on the front line changing the way healthcare is delivered and the way the business is run,” he said in a recent interview.
“Make It Meaningful”: CIOs Discuss Keys to Leading Hybrid IT Teams
More than two years into the pandemic, retaining top IT talent is still a challenge, according to our panelists. “Keeping them engaged is my main concern,” said John Kravitz, who discusses the topic with Ed McCallister and Lisa Dykstra.
Q&A with CIO Dustin Hufford, Part 2: How Engagement, Flexibility & Transparency Can Help Retain Talent
Sometimes timing is everything, said Dustin Hufford, who talks about the challenges of stepping into the CIO role right before the pandemic. He also discusses the benefits of having been with a community hospital, and how Cooper is working to retain IT talent.
“It’s About User Experience”: A Different Approach to Selling the Cloud
The decision to move to the cloud should be based on comfort, resources, and the organization’s strategic vision, and not on outside opinions, according to CISOs Todd Bell and Sahan Fernando.
Interviews
“It’s a Great Place to Be”: CIO Ed Kopetsky on Building a Strong & Resilient Culture
The CIO isn’t going away anytime soon; but it is transforming, according to Ed Kopetsky. “We’re not just computer geeks; we’re on the front line changing the way healthcare is delivered and the way the business is run,” he said in a recent interview.
“Make It Meaningful”: CIOs Discuss Keys to Leading Hybrid IT Teams
More than two years into the pandemic, retaining top IT talent is still a challenge, according to our panelists. “Keeping them engaged is my main concern,” said John Kravitz, who discusses the topic with Ed McCallister and Lisa Dykstra.
Q&A with CIO Dustin Hufford, Part 2: How Engagement, Flexibility & Transparency Can Help Retain Talent
Sometimes timing is everything, said Dustin Hufford, who talks about the challenges of stepping into the CIO role right before the pandemic. He also discusses the benefits of having been with a community hospital, and how Cooper is working to retain IT talent.
“It’s About User Experience”: A Different Approach to Selling the Cloud
The decision to move to the cloud should be based on comfort, resources, and the organization’s strategic vision, and not on outside opinions, according to CISOs Todd Bell and Sahan Fernando.
Columns
The Next Phase of Telehealth: 5 Possible Scenarios
As the viability of long-term telehealth reimbursement continues to hang in the balance, how can healthcare organizations prepare? What can leaders reasonably expect? Joe Kvedar, MD, shares his thoughts.
According to Plan
The first and most valuable lesson in parenting? Things aren’t going to go as planned. The only option is to pivot and move forward, according to Kate Gamble, who reflects on 10 years of motherhood.
“People Are What Makes Tech Work”: Lee Milligan Reflects on His Journey at Asante
Part of being a good leader is delivering “clarity of purpose and clarity of work,” even when it means having difficult conversations, said Lee Milligan, MD. As he prepares to leave his role at Asante, he sheds some light on some of his most valuable takeaways.
Kitchen Utensils and Applied Clinical Informatics
How is applied clinical informatics like a kitchen utensil drawer? In this piece, Dirk Stanley, MD, CMIO at UConn Health, uses an unconventional example to demonstrate “why workflow analysis, naming conventions, indexing, and usability all really do matter.”
Partner Perspectives
Partner Perspective: Empowering Today’s Anywhere, Anytime Workforce Requires a Flexible IT Architecture
With healthcare workers wanting to work from anywhere at any time, CIOs must implement solutions that empower clinical and non-clinical teams. Those solutions include leveraging AI, automation, and … [Read More]
Partner Perspective: An Inconvenient Truth – The Urgency of Healthcare Application Portfolio Rationalization
After years devoted to the adoption of best-of-breed strategies, the infusion of technology into clinical workflow, and mergers & acquisitions, health systems are suffering from information … [Read More]
Partner Perspective: CIOs Must Drive Towards Work Anywhere, Data Everywhere Environments
VMware’s Enrique Estrada, senior director of healthcare industry solutions, says his foundational principal is that the patient must be at the center of healthcare. After that, it’s about creating the … [Read More]
Partner Perspective: Robust Security Environments Require a Dedication to Best Practices & Openness to New Technologies
Ryan Witt, Managing Director of Healthcare for Proofpoint, talks with healthsystemCIO about the advantages of health systems tailoring their cybersecurity defenses to the most frequently attacked … [Read More]
Upcoming Webinars
Best Practices for Securing Third-Party Managed Devices
Unlike unmanaged medical devices -- which are known to harbor risk for healthcare delivery organizations (HDOs) -- many HDOs seem willing to trust in their vendors and accept the risk of third-party … [Read More]
Securing the Expanded Attack Surface Created by a Remote Workforce
The best security professionals have always focused on empowering rather than restricting. However, securing today's work-from-anywhere workforce is putting that noble goal to the test. That's because … [Read More]
Keys to Running an Effective IT Shop
Running an effective IT shop means doing a lot of things right. First off, you must have a sound governance system to ensure the right work is being taken on, then you must have an effective team (and … [Read More]
Strategies for Improving Data Quality in Your Health System
The promise of leveraging data to improve care will never be realized as long as its quality is suspect. So how can CIOs and other IT executives -- who have little to do with data entry -- bring about … [Read More]
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