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I believe the most important aspect of my role as a CIO is communication. A mediocre strategy that is well articulated will produce greater results than an excellent strategy that is not understood by those who must execute and support it. There are many communication vehicles, but those of us at the senior management level […]
When Kate Gamble asked me to write about my mentor, I thought that would be easy since I have worked for a lot of people that have positively shaped who I am. I also love healthsystemCIO.com and wanted to give back. But I anguished over who to write about, not being able to choose any one person. So, I chose to […]
I can’t imagine how difficult it is for those who sell IT services and goods to reach the people that would buy from them. Every organization has a different structure and we are all inundated with requests for our time and attention. Many attempts to get our attention are complete failures; for example, when it […]
We are users of a cool product from Aternity for application monitoring. The Aternity app runs in the background on our PCs and monitors the end-user experience. When a customer says, “the system is running slow,” we have a wealth of data that can confirm that is the case, quantify how slow it is running, […]
Most people think that the role of the Project Management Office (PMO) is similar to that of an airplane pilot. It is their job to make sure that the plane gets to its destination without crashing into the ground. While that’s true, and a critical role of a Project Management Office, it may not be […]
The following headline caught my eye as I was reading through my RSS feed: How to deploy ERP in 120 days As soon as I read this headline, I knew I was going to unleash a rant. Caron Carlson wrote this piece, and it is a good story about Johnson & Johnson’s acquisition of a […]
Outside healthcare IT, Wisconsin is known for cheese, cows and the Green Bay Packers; inside, it’s known as Epic country. And while the vendor calls most of Wisconsin’s health systems its clients, Affinity Health System and Ministry Health Care (now part of the same organization) are not one of them. That leaves the system’s CIO, […]
Outside healthcare IT, Wisconsin is known for cheese, cows and the Green Bay Packers; inside, it’s known as Epic country. And while the vendor calls most of Wisconsin’s health systems its clients, Affinity Health System and Ministry Health Care (now part of the same organization) are not one of them. That leaves the system’s CIO, […]
Outside healthcare IT, Wisconsin is known for cheese, cows and the Green Bay Packers; inside, it’s known as Epic country. And while the vendor calls most of Wisconsin’s health systems its clients, Affinity Health System and Ministry Health Care (now part of the same organization) are not one of them. That leaves the system’s CIO, […]
Outside healthcare IT, Wisconsin is known for cheese, cows and the Green Bay Packers; inside, it’s known as Epic country. And while the vendor calls most of Wisconsin’s health systems its clients, Affinity Health System and Ministry Health Care (now part of the same organization) are not one of them. That leaves the system’s CIO, […]
