The Year in Blogs: Recapping the Top Posts from 2023

There are words of wisdom that stand the test of time; and there are those that do not. An example of the latter — at least in the continuously evolving healthcare IT space — is, “stay in your lane.” As Bradd Busick, CIO at MultiCare Health System, wrote in blog post earlier this year, the last thing CIOs (or any leaders, for that matter) should be doing is “focusing solely on the tasks and responsibilities within your job description.”

On the contrary, as IT continues to become integrated into every aspect of an organization, limiting oneself to a single lane or task is the last thing leaders should be doing. It’s a message that clearly resonated with our readers in 2023, with the most popular blogs featuring a wide array of topics, from vendor partnerships to the evolving CISO role to building trust.

Here’s hoping we continued to see “blurred lines” in the New Year. In the meantime, below is a listing of the most viewed blog posts of 2023. We are extremely grateful, as always, to those who are willing to share their perspectives.

Top Blogs of 2023:

1. “Leaning Into Automation”: MultiCare’s ERP Implementation Journey (Bradd Busick, SVP & CIO, MultiCare Health System)
2. The Dangers of Staying in Your Lane (Bradd Busick, SVP & CIO, MultiCare Health System)
3. Building Meaningful Connections with CIOs: What Vendors Need to Know (Chani Cordero, CIO, Brooke Army Medical Center)
4. “Working Class Informatics”: The Biggest Challenges with Improving Lab Technology (CT Lin, MD, CMIO, UCHealth)
5. “Don’t Be Left Behind”: What Healthcare Can Learn Using Coca-Cola’s Formula (David Chou, CDO, Legacy Community Health)
6. Telehealth Reexamined: Is This As Good As It Gets? (Joseph Kvedar, MD, Senior Advisor, MGH Center for Innovation in Digital HealthCare)
7. The CMIO’s Perspective: Breaking Down Incidental and Other Actionable Findings (Dirk Stanley, MD, CMIO, UConn Health)
8. “Shared Principles”: A Comparison of Military and Civilian Approaches (Joey Meneses, CTO, Director of IT Operations, Digital Health & Emerging Technologies, Akron Children’s Hospital)
9. “A Moving Target”: How Digital Tools Can Earn Clinicians’ Trust (John Halamka, MD, President, Mayo Clinic Platform)
10. Seeds and Soil: Recommendations for new Applied Clinical Informaticists (Dirk Stanley, MD, CMIO, UConn Health)
11. “Invaluable Expertise”: The CISO’s Paramount Role in Serving on Corporate Boards (Denis Leber, PhD, Director of Cybersecurity, Honest Medical Group)
12. Is It Time to Integrate the CISO and CTO Roles? (Joey Meneses, CTO, Director of IT Operations, Digital Health & Emerging Technologies, Akron Children’s Hospital)
13. Wants Versus Needs: Breaking Down What It Means (Chris Walden, VP of Information Technology, Tenet Healthcare)
14. “Be Bold”: CIO Daniel Barchi on How Moving Quickly Can Increase Control (Daniel Barchi, CIO, CommonSpirit Health)
15. “A Given, Not a Luxury”: SONE Health’s SDoH Journey (Renee Broadbent, CIO, SoNE Health)
16. Menus and Cookbooks: Thoughts on NIST CSF and HICP (Nate Couture, Network AVP, Information Security & CISO, The University of Vermont Health Network)
17. The Dark Side of Detection Tools (Tomislav Mustac, Senior Director & Head of Systems, Cloud & Biomed Security, Mount Sinai Health System)
18. A Playbook for API: 5 Steps to Developing a Successful Strategy (Jeffrey Brown, Chief Information & Digital Officer, Martin’s Point Health Care)
19. Cybersecurity, AI & Data: “We’re Just Scratching the Surface” (Brad Reimer, CIO, Sanford Health)
20. Survivability & Sustainability: How to “Shore Up” Healthcare (William Walders, CIO, BayCare Health System)