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It wasn’t just the usual suspects of artificial intelligence and cybersecurity that peaked the interests of our readers in 2023 – although those topics did draw interest. It was also the year of improving care access, managing organizational growth, and establishing a solid foundation for innovation.
From empowering cybersecurity teams to vendor relationships to removing obstacles for women, healthsystemCIO has covered it all during the past few months. Here, we reveal the most viewed posts (including interviews, blogs and webinar recaps) from the summer of 2023.
The ability to provide guidance on financial decision-making is becoming a core skillset for CIOs, according to Pamela McNutt. In this interview, she reflects on 30 years with Methodist Health System and shares insights on the evolving CIO role, the importance of mastering contract negotiations, and her team’s “heroic efforts” during Covid.
Topics like digital health and innovation are certainly click-worthy, particularly in the age of technology. But for healthsystemCIO’s readers, the most important buzzword in 2019 was leadership, says Kate Gamble, who reveals the most popular interviews from 2019.
The downside of healthcare’s digital transformation? With more disciplines interacting with IT, the environment becomes “ripe for turf wars,” says CIO Pam McNutt, who shares her thoughts on navigating leadership challenges.
As healthcare enters “the digital revolution,” perhaps the greatest challenge for leaders is balancing the need for data access with the need for security, says Pamela McNutt, CIO at Methodist Health System.
No one is better suited than those who are in the trenches to push for better healthcare IT policies, according to Randy McCleese, one of several leaders who talks about why advocacy is so critical, especially in today’s landscape.
Even within the same organization, different facilities have different needs when it comes to go-live support, says Pamela McNutt, and leaders must have their finger on the pulse and be ready to react.
During a joint hearing of two Federal Advisory Committees in Washington, D.C. on Monday, four influential CIOs stressed the need for more focus on standards development and spoke about the hurdles to attesting to Stage 2. CHIME members Pamela McNutt, Tom Pagano, Rodney Dykehouse, and Randy McCleese provided testimony on Stage 1 implementation, Stage 2 […]
CHIME’s message to the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT is clear: slow down. In its comments regarding the Health IT Policy Committee’s proposed measures for Stage 3, CHIME urged the federal advisory committee to recommend thorough evaluations of what has been accomplished so far in order to establish realistic measures and objectives. […]
