The Best Blogs of 2016

hsCIO.com Reveals The Most Read Blogs of 2016

It’s certainly been an eventful year. Ransomware attacks grabbed national headlines, Meaningful Use began its retirement tour, and a new president was elected. Topping it all off was the passing of the 21^st Century Cures Act, a move that will have significant ramifications for health IT. But in an industry where mergers and acquisitions have become the norm, it should come as no surprise that some of the top blogs from 2016 focused on career advancement, leadership strategies, and communication. In fact, it was a piece on handling job offers and negotiations that drew the most reads. Other areas of great interest included the shift to value-based care, the growing importance of the CHIO and CMIO roles, and of course, the usual suspects: cybersecurity and interoperability.

Below are the top 20 most viewed blog posts from the past year. A sincere thank you to all of those who have contributed to our site and helped us to achieve our goal of keeping CIOs and other leaders educated. We look forward to reading more insightful perspectives in 2017!

1. The CIO’s Guide To Handling Job Offers and Negotiations (Bonnie Siegel, Independent Career Consultant and former Healthcare IT Executive Search Consultant, Witt/Kieffer)
2. KLAS & CHIME: Health IT’s Critical Role In The Shift From Volume to Value (Bob Cash, VP of Provider Relations, KLAS Research & Russell Branzell, President and CEO, CHIME)
3. The CIO’s Top Three Priorities for 2016 (David Chou, Chief Information & Digital Officer, Children’s Mercy Hospital)
4. A New Start: How EN-Abled Vet Is Turning Adversity Into Opportunity (Jaime Parent, Associate CIO & VP of IT Operations, Rush University Medical Center, and Kevin Gonzales, Veteran, US Marine Corps, and Graduate, EN-Abled Veteran Program)
5. How To Deal With A No-Filter Problem (John Mason, Founder, OakHorn Solutions, and former CIO, Hill Country Memorial Hospital)
6. Building An Arsenal To Withstand Cyberattacks (Connie Barrera, Director of Information Assurance & CISO, Jackson Health System
7. From Liaison to Leader: The Emergence Of The CHIO (Hillary Ross, Co-Leader and Principal, IT Practice, Witt/Kieffer)
8. The CIO’s Top Priorities At HIMSS (David Chou, Chief Information & Digital Officer, Children’s Mercy Hospital)
9. Why Your CMIO Should Be Your BFF (George Reynolds, former CIO, Children’s Hospital & Medical Center, Omaha)
10. How Pokémon GO Is Reinventing Healthcare Consumerism (Paul Roemer, Consumerism Leader & Chief Imaginist, IBM Global Healthcare)
11. How To Reach CIOs (John Mason, Founder, OakHorn Solutions, and former CIO, Hill Country Memorial Hospital)
12. The Relationship Matrix — It’s Not About the Org Chart (George Reynolds, former CIO, Children’s Hospital & Medical Center, Omaha)
13. Why Is Healthcare Analytics So Difficult? (Dan Kinsella, Consultant, Bow Tie Consulting Solutions, and former CIO, Cadence Health System)
14. Making Sense Of CommonWell: What Can Users Expect? (Kent Gale, Founder, KLAS Enterprises)
15. What I Learned As CIO (Joey Hobbs, Regional CIO, NetApp and former CIO, Community Hospital Anderson)
16. The Two Biggest Leadership Traps (Bill Rieger, CIO, Flagler Hospital)
17. Tweet Sheet: Using Social Media To Increase Staff Engagement (Sarah Richardson, CIO, DaVita Healthcare Partners)
18. athenahealth and eClinicalWorks: Evaluating The New Acute Care EMR Market Entrants (Erik Bermudez, Research Director, KLAS)
19. Reinventing Yourself: 3 Things I Have Learned (Tonguc Yaman, CIO, Advocate Community Providers)
20. IT Governance: Basic But Critical (Sue Schade, Principal, StarBridge Advisors and former CIO, University of Michigan Hospitals)