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The most valuable lessons Bill Spooner learned during his CIO tenure still hold true today: make smart investments, do the research, and don’t buy anything you don’t really need.
13 years with Alegent Health
Epic selection process
Learning the business during M&A — “It helped me to be better leader.”
National standardization vs local integration
Filling Bill Spooner’s shoes — “Could I really continue to build on the legacy?”
Learn and understand first
Health plan & the “interesting dynamic” with payers
Creating an IT risk management department
Educational awareness — “Healthcare workers tend to be trusting.”
Rise of the CISO
Posturing for pop health — “It’s not scalable with the existing technology.”
Mobility steering committee
Allscripts’ FollowMyHealth portal
About Sharp HealthCare
Hospitals on Cerner, practices on Allscripts
Leveraging dbMotion’s HIE to present “an integrated view.”
Internally developed data warehouse
Short-term & long-term costs of a single-vendor approach
Predictive analytics — “You’ve got to be able to capture that data.”
*Does MU stifle innovation?
*Would the world be better without Meaningful Use?
*Sharp’s MU road
*ICD-10 — “We have 55 applications that will have to be modified … so it does have me a little bit nervous”
*Advice to overworked CIOs
