Turning points in life can come when we least expect them. And that’s just what happened to 16-year old high school dropout Phil Alexander when his Dad told him to get off the couch and find a job selling cars at one of the local dealerships. For Alexander, the exercise in persistence led to a […]
Q&A With University of Miami Health System CIO David Reis, PhD
Having been a CISO in the past, David Reis is definitely a security-minded CIO. But that doesn’t mean he protects the University of Miami Health System with a my-way-or-the highway mentality. In fact, Reis wants to make sure clinicians can use the tools they say they need (within reason) meaning his application portfolio is a […]
Q&A with WVU Medicine CISO Hunter Barbour
If you don’t want to keep learning, heading up IT security for a health system is probably not for you. At least that’s one obvious takeaway from speaking to WVU Medicine CISO Hunter Barbour, who lists the impending marriage of AI and quantum computing as a possible game changer for security professionals. So Barbour is […]
Q&A with UC San Diego Health CISO Scott Currie & Medical Director of Cybersecurity Christian Dameff
As a practicing ER physician, Christian Dameff, medical director of cybersecurity at UC San Diego Health, is one of the first in the nation to bridge the clinical world and cybersecurity, thus bringing credibility and understanding of cyber efforts to the clinical team. Dameff works closely with CISO Scott Currie and, in this interview with […]
Q&A with Geisinger Health System CISO Zack Gable
Though he’s just coming up on his one-year anniversary, Geisinger Health System CISO Zack Gable sounds like an executive with many more years leading security under his belt. That’s because Gable knows his job is about “business enablement,” or empowering clinicians with the tools they need to provide superior patient care, rather than putting the […]