John Halamka, MD, president of the Mayo Clinic Platform, provides the latest updates on national HIT policy and prognosticates on future direction.

With rising expenses and workforce shortages impacting financial performance, healthcare IT executives are facing difficult choices about their digital roadmaps — what remains a priority, what is postponed, and what is eliminated altogether. And as budgets become tighter, it is more important than ever to ensure a solid ROI for every digital initiative. In this webinar, we’ll hear from leaders about how they are assessing and re-prioritizing their digital roadmaps — including a renewed focus on efficiency and automation — to benefit patients, providers and staff, and their organization’s bottom line.

In a fee-for-service world, analytics are nice to have, but in a value-based one, they are the difference between operational success and failure. That’s because solid analytics mean better and more timely care, while also helping avoid that which is unnecessary and repetitive. In this timely webinar, we’ll speak to leaders who have specifically worked to develop the technologies and overall analytics programs required to support value-based care.

George T. “Buddy” Hickman has been “very, very involved in health IT,” as a CIO for the past 24 years, and in other capacities. Now as the chief strategy officer with First Health Advisory, a global risk management and digital transformation advisory firm, he imparts his vast industry knowledge to others as part of his daily job.
In this episode of healthsystemCIO’s Partner Perspective Interview Series, Anthony Guerra, founder and editor-in-chief, picks Hickman’s brain on how he sees new trends affecting CIOs, particularly the latest title of chief digital officer. Is it important to go after this title? Hickman says it depends. Sometimes, it’s just a matter of a new trendy name for the same CIO job. But if a CIO is a trailblazer, drastically driving change at his or her enterprise, it might be right to assume this new title. And by the way, don’t expect the role to come without conflict, as that comes with the territory for any C-suite IT position. Hickman offers some ways to work with it and win, along with a host of other career gems in this interview.

Both consumer desires and regulatory mandates are requiring health systems to share more PHI with more entities than ever before. While such sharing can go a long way to improving outcomes and patient satisfaction, it also presents new challenges for IT security professionals. That’s because traditional cybersecurity is not designed to protect PHI and clinical workflows at the edge of decentralized, virtual healthcare. In this important webinar, we’ll discuss how clinicians have become the new perimeter, leaving security professionals in the position of figuring out how to secure them without inhibiting productivity.