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The more freely patient data flows outside of the traditional confines, the more opportunities for electronic protected health information to leak out, said CIO Rich Temple, who spoke on a panel with James Case and David Ting. “We have to make sure we stay on top of that.”
“We can’t continue to do what we’ve done in the past and expect to survive,” said Terri Couts, CDO at Guthrie Clinic. In this interview, she talks about the virtual command center designed to centralize key functions, increase efficiencies, and ease the burden on nurses – and the “revamp” that’s helping them get there.
Every leader would like a bigger budget. But instead of asking for more money, CIDOs should look for ways to reduce expenses and “put savings back into IT so that we can begin to transform the organization,” said Joel Vengco of Hartford Healthcare. In this interview, he talked about how Hartford Healthcare is building a foundation for transformation.
With cloud solutions playing an increasingly “critical role in determining how quickly we can adapt, excel, and expedite digital strategies,” the pressure is on CIOs, CISOs, and other leaders to establish a solid cloud security strategy, according to our panelists in a recent discussion.
To Christopher Neuharth, VP of Experience at Digital Innovation at Children’s Wisconsin, adoption numbers don’t mean that much – what matters is how technology is being utilized to “make the process easier and more efficient for our staff and families,” he said in a recent podcast interview.
