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The rapid rise of telehealth during the early stages of Covid made an enormous impact for organizations like LVHN with a large rural population, but it wasn’t just about the scale, said CIO Mike Minear in this interview. “It was the richness of how we did it.”
For healthcare CIOs, the “massive change in culture and the massive change in the deployment of technologies” that has occurred during the past 2 years has been (and will continue to be) a game-changer, according to Dr. John Halamka.
As Covid-19 demonstrated, healthcare is far behind the eight-ball when it comes to scalability and agility. But it doesn’t have to be that way, according to our panelists, who discussed the steps they’re taking to modernize their infrastructures.
When IT and physician leaders are willing to “leave their titles outside the room and go shoulder to shoulder to work through problems,” not only does it help build morale – it can also help increase productivity, said James Brady, CISO at Fairview Health Services.
Sometimes the most effective way to sell a cybersecurity to executive leadership is by showing “how much it would cost if you couldn’t deliver patient care for one day,” said CISO Jim Brady in a recent interview.
