PODCAST: One-on-One w/University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center VP & CIO Lynn Vogel, Chapter 1

Lynn Vogel, VP & CIO, University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center

While just about every CIO in healthcare can be described as intelligent, only a handful deserve to be called wise. One of those is undoubtedly M. D. Anderson Cancer Center’s Lynn Vogel. And Vogel is not the kind of CIO to keep all that wisdom to himself. As such, he’s an active educator in both the university and industry spheres — the latter as an instructor in CHIME’s popular CIO Boot Camps. To learn more about Vogel’s take on the trends roiling healthcare — and his work at MD Anderson — healthsystemCIO.com editor Anthony Guerra recently caught up with the Texas-based CIO.

Chapter 1

Reflecting on the Healthlink experience
Engaging with MD Anderson — IT governance
Strategy first — know thyself
Executive leadership & area teams
“We were able to move the actual decision-making down into the organization”
Fully integrating the Internet, data management
Gaining the institutional commitment to make it work
Enhancing the productivity of employees
“There has to be a discipline of looking at benefits”
“If you’re going to spend $1 million on something, you better have a pretty clear idea of what you’re going to get out of that investment”