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Health systems face increasingly thin operating margins. Yet they are still expected to drive towards the Quadruple Aim: to improve population health, patient experience and team well-being, while holding costs down. This creates some daunting tension for IT departments, as they feel the squeeze, too. The IT department is uniquely positioned to help its enterprise […]
The ability to automate processes to improve efficiency and enhance consumer experience is high on the CIO’s priority list. Getting there, however, requires a level of integration that many health systems haven’t yet achieved, said Shafiq Rab and John Henderson during a recent panel discussion.
Cybersecurity breaches, information blocking rules, clinician burnout — there’s no shortage of areas that need attention from an advocacy standpoint. During a session at CHIME23, a panel of plugged-in leaders share insights on where the biggest hurdles exist, and what they’re doing to overcome them.
As health systems continue to gather large amounts of data, the challenge becomes finding a standardized way to refine data into valuable information, said our panelists during a recent panel discussion. “We need to get to the point where people are using the insights we’re providing to manage their business or operations.”
One of the most critical – and, as it turns out, most challenging – aspects of reducing clinician burnout is assessing which groups have been affected and how much, according to our panelists, Drs. Shafiq Rab, Peter Canning and Jose Barreau.
Enabling digital health isn’t just going to become a benefit for health systems; it’s going to become a competitive differentiator, which means leaders need to ensure the right foundation is in place, according to our CIO panelists.
CHIME has named three highly respected CIOs to its Board of Trustees: Cindy Peterson, Shafiq Rab, MD, and Marc Chasin, MD, and elected Carina Edwards of Imprivata to its Foundation Board.
In recognition of the efforts taking place at many organizations to move the industry forward, CHIME recognized a number of key healthcare IT leaders at the 2015 Fall Forum, including Shafiq Rab, MD, vice president and CIO at Hackensack University Medical Center, who was named CHIME Innovator of the Year. HackensackUMC is one of the […]
The key to vendor relationships
How to have happy staff
“People want to understand gene sequencing, I want to understand human sequencing”
“My job is to create leaders who are 100 times better than me”
Imagining the CIO of the future
What keeps me awake at night is cyber-security
ACO and Team of Care
On HIEs — the funding and competition problems
“Patients are mobile; they don’t stay in one place.”
The costs of it all; the keys to coming in on time and on budget
