For the 103rd episode of the CIO podcast hosted by Healthcare IT Today, we are joined by David Tucker, Former CIO, to discuss a CIO’s perspective on AI! We begin this episode by discussing what the biggest changes are from when Tucker was a CIO to today. As a former CIO, Tucker has been through the Best of Breed vs All-in-One cycle. So, as we prepare to go through it with AI, we discuss how a CIO should be approaching this challenge. Then Tucker shares how to stay patient with both your users and your board as they demand AI. Next, we discuss some key points to leading an organization during this huge burst of AI innovation. 

While AI is a very hot topic in healthcare right now, there are plenty of other very important topics to study and discuss. So we list out what non-AI topics we believe that CIOs should be spending time on. We then take a look at Tucker’s varied job history, as both a CIO and as someone for the vendors, to analyze what the key is to making the most of vendor relationships. We also examine the current state of vendor relationships to see if there’s anything that most CIOs don’t appreciate about vendors. Lastly, we conclude this episode with Tucker passing along the best piece of advice he’s heard in his career.

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We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. My guest today is Viraj Narayanan, CEO at Cornerstone AI. Cornerstone uses AI to clean and standardize healthcare data. Cleaning healthcare data is a non-sexy job that consumes staggering amounts of resources in the industry. When Narayanan was at McKesson, he had 25 PhD biostatisticians who spent 70% of their time on data cleaning.

Cornerstone AI reduces data cleaning time from 8-12 weeks to days. They maintain human oversight while accelerating processes, improve data quality while reducing processing time, and scale data volume without a linear time increase. Their primary long-term growth driver is biopharma companies. Data companies like Komodo Health embed Cornerstone technology in the data pipeline for laboratory data cleanup and LOINC code assignment. They improve LOINC assignment rates from 20-30% to 80-90%.

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If you work in Life Sciences IT, we’d love to hear where you agree and/or disagree with our takes on health IT innovation in life sciences. Feel free to share your thoughts and perspectives in the comments of this post, in the YouTube comments, or privately on our Contact Us page. Let us know what you think of the podcast and if you have any ideas for future episodes.

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For the 102nd episode of the CIO podcast hosted by Healthcare IT Today, we are joined by Jordan Ruch, Chief Information Officer at AtlantiCare, to talk about Oracle Health’s Clinical AI Agent! AtlantiCare is one of the first users of Oracle Health’s Clinical AI Agent, so we kick this episode off with Ruch sharing his organization’s experience with it. Then, we discuss the workflow implications the Clinical AI Agent had. Next, Ruch shares his experience with the evolution of Oracle Health and discusses why he chose to stick with them. Ruch also shares what he expects from Oracle Health moving forward and how it will impact AtlantiCare. 

We then move on to discuss the massive challenge of documentation burden and what Ruch is working on to reduce that burden. Next, we talk about AtlantiCare signing on to the CMS Interoperability Pledge to see why this decision was made and what impact they think this will have. Then we take a look at Ruch’s Vision 2030 effort to learn more about what it is and how it is going. Lastly, we conclude this episode with Ruch passing along the best piece of advice he’s been given in his career.

Here’s a look at the questions and topics we discuss in this episode:

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For the 101st episode of the CIO podcast hosted by Healthcare IT Today, we are joined by Tom Gillette, CIO at Mount Sinai Medical Center, to talk about digital messaging! We kick this episode off with Gillette sharing his experience with using Epic’s ART for InBasket messages. Then we take a look at the increase of digital messaging since COVID to debate whether or not we think this growth will continue to trend upwards, as well as share where we think all of this messaging is headed. Mount Sinai Medical Center is the first adopter to use ART for messages in Spanish. Gillette walks us through how that works and what some of the nuances are. Then we talk about some of the other technology challenges Mount Sinai Medical Center faces, having such a large Hispanic/multi-lingual patient population.

We then move on to take a look at the other health IT or AI projects Gillette is excited to be working on. Next, we discuss how to balance implementing AI solutions that are best of breed vs a platform of your existing vendors. Then Gillette shares what inspired his decisions to have an AI governance committee, along with his existing IT steering committee. Finally, we conclude this episode as Gillette passes along the best piece of advice he’s been given in his career.

Here’s a look at the questions and topics we discuss in this episode:

Now, without further ado, we’re excited to share with you the next episode of the CIO Podcast by Healthcare IT Today.

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For the 100th episode of the CIO podcast hosted by Healthcare IT Today, we are joined by Mark Mabus, MD, CMIO, and VP EHR at Parkview Health, to talk about their part in the KLAS Arch Collaborative! We kick this episode off by first discussing the motivations behind the decision to join the KLAS Arch Collaborative. Next, Mabus shares what he learned from this collaborative and how he is acting on those learnings. We then take a look at Epic Signal to talk about how Mabus is leveraging it to better his efforts in improving patient education and burnout. Then we dive into what Mabus’s approach to note bloat in his organization looks like. Next, we list out some of the keys to effectively getting buy-in when doing creative approaches to integration. Then we examine Epic InBasket messaging to learn the pros and cons of leveraging it to educate your clinicians. Lastly, we conclude this episode with Mabus imparting some advice to other CMIOs.

If you’re not following Mark Mabus on TikTok, be sure to follow him: @doctrmk

Here’s a look at the questions and topics we discuss in this episode:

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For the 99th episode of the CIO podcast hosted by Healthcare IT Today, we are joined by Michael Mainiero, Senior Vice President and Chief Digital Information Officer at Catholic Health, to talk about Catholic Health being awarded Epic’s Honor Roll Good Maintenance Grant! We kick this episode off by first discussing what being recognized by Epic’s Honor Roll Good Maintenance Grant Program meant to Mainiero and his team. Then, Mainiero shares some of his achievements that came from this program and details what other CIOs can learn from them. Next, we talk about how to prioritize opportunities when there are so many options for improvement. Mainiero then shares what he is planning to do with the grant money from Epic. We then discuss how much Mainiero is leveraging the EHR to enable innovation versus outside vendors as he approaches innovation. Moving outside of EHRs, we talk about what Mainiero’s biggest challenges are and how he’s working to address them. We conclude this episode with Mainiero passing along the best piece of advice he’s gotten in his career.

Here’s a look at the questions and topics we discuss in this episode:

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We release a new CIO Podcast every ~2 weeks. You can also subscribe to the Healthcare IT Today podcast on any of the following platforms:

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For the 98th episode of the CIO podcast hosted by Healthcare IT Today, we are joined by Rich Temple, Former CIO! We kick this episode off with Temple sharing his greatest career achievement and what he is most proud of. Then we discuss how meaningful use was for Temple since he had already implemented the EHR pre-meaningful use. Next, we break down the project Temple worked on that taught him the most, to discuss what he learned.

Hindsight is always 20/20, so now that Temple is entering retirement, he shares with us what he focused on too much as a healthcare CIO that he now would’ve stopped doing, or at least approached differently. Then we debate over what we think CIOs aren’t talking about publicly that they should be, as well as check in and see if Rich’s answer has changed now that he has retired. Next, we talk about whether or not Temple wishes that he had taken more calculated risks while as CIO.

The world of healthcare is rapidly evolving, which means that healthcare jobs are also constantly changing. We debate over what we think health IT will change in the next 5 years, as well as how the job of CIO will change over the course of 5 years. We then also discuss what song we think could be a theme song or an inspiration for CIOs. Lastly, we conclude this episode with Temple passing along some advice to other CIOs who are still grinding.

Here’s a look at the questions and topics we discuss in this episode:

Now, without further ado, we’re excited to share with you the next episode of the CIO Podcast by Healthcare IT Today.

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For the 97th episode of the CIO podcast hosted by Healthcare IT Today, we are joined by Faisal Hussain, MD, MHIIM, RHIA, CCDS, CDIP, CCS, Executive Director, CDI at Wellstar Health System, to talk about Clinical Documentation Improvement (CDI)! We kick this episode off as Hussain details the aspects that many CIOs and healthcare leaders don’t understand about CDI but should. Next, we debate over whether RCM or more clinical quality efforts are driving the most CDI. Then, Hussain shares the keys to how he was able to centralize CDI across a growing integrated health system.

There have been a lot of strides in integrating AI into healthcare for both simplification and improvement purposes, so how does this affect CDI? We first discuss if AI will fully take over doing all CDI. Then we take a look at technologies where AI creates notes, such as AI Medical Scribes or Ambient Clinical Voice, and analyze how they will help and/or hurt documentation CDI. Next, we discuss what aspects of revenue cycle management or clinical documentation Hussain feels not enough people are talking about. We then conclude this episode with Hussain sharing career advice to anyone who’s interested in the CDI space.

Here’s a look at the questions and topics we discuss in this episode:

Now, without further ado, we’re excited to share with you the next episode of the CIO Podcast by Healthcare IT Today.

We release a new CIO Podcast every ~2 weeks. You can also subscribe to the Healthcare IT Today podcast on any of the following platforms:

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For the 96th episode of the CIO podcast hosted by Healthcare IT Today, we are joined by Christopher Kunney, Managing Partner at IOTECH Consulting, to talk about the role of CIOs! We kick this episode off by discussing how the role of CIO has changed since Kunney first started. Then we talk about the skills CIOs need to develop today. Next, we take the opposite approach and discuss what has not changed about the role of CIOs. We then take a look at some areas of healthcare, such as health equity, SDoH, and techequity, to debate how CIOs should be approaching them. Next, we talk about whether healthcare organizations should be worried about new care delivery models, startups, and shifts to value based care. We then talk about how those topics will change healthcare. Kunney then shares with us some of the lessons he’s learned doing the Straight Outta Health IT podcast. Lastly, we conclude this episode with a helpful lesson for CIOs and aspiring CIOs that Kunney got from his father.

Here’s a look at the questions and topics we discuss in this episode:

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For the 95th episode of the CIO podcast hosted by Healthcare IT Today, we are joined by Christian Lindmark, CTO at Stanford Health Care and Stanford School of Medicine, to talk about private 5G networks! We kick this episode off by discussing the importance of connectivity in Lindmark’s hospital and some of the challenges he faced. Then, Lindmark shares with us what led him to implement a private 5G network at his organizations. 5G in healthcare has been discussed before, but to make sure we’re all on the same page, Lindmark goes over the differences between the public 5G networks and his private 5G network. Next, we talk about whether Stanford Health Care and Stanford School of Medicine had the necessary workforce in place to handle the move to a 5G network in-house or if they worked with a partner. Then we take a look at some of the outcomes and impacts Lindmark has seen from having his own 5G network.

We then expand our focus outside of connectivity to discuss the other big IT projects Lindmark is working on. Next, we take a look at AI to see what goes into the decision on whether you should build or buy AI. Then, we talk about an area of IT that Lindmark doesn’t think is getting the attention it needs. Lindmark then also shares an area of IT that he’s been keeping his eye on but hasn’t yet implemented. Finally, we conclude this episode with Lindmark passing along the best piece of advice he’s been given in his career.

Here’s a look at the questions and topics we discuss in this episode:

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