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For healthcare IT leaders, “having a balance of technical and operational leadership is increasingly important,” said Denao Ruttino, Chief Innovation Officer at Southern Illinois Healthcare. In this podcast interview, he talks about the challenges facing rural health organizations, how his team is working to improve access, and why accountability is so critical.
Lessons learned from IT rounding
Increasing physician engagement
“I love being a CIO”
Getting clinician feedback
Looking at system failures — not individual mistakes
The challenge for CIOs going forward
Improving project prioritization
Meditech 5.6 upgrade
Getting the organization to realize “these are not IT projects”
From chief information officer to chief innovation officer
IT as an enabler
Implementing single sign-on
Shaping the HIE picture in Illinois
“It’s an evolutionary, not revolutionary process”
The franchise model vs the monolithic model
Piloting CPOE with hospitalists
Automating data movement between the Lawson & Meditech systems
Creating a centralized cardiology imaging system
About Southern Illinois Healthcare
Forming a PHO to improve care coordination
Integrating the acute & ambulatory environments
Improving outcomes for chronic disease patients
EMR adoption – “it runs the gamut”
“It’s mostly a cost issue”
