Connecting Healthcare IT

We are excited to welcome Amy Trainor, System Vice President and Chief Information Officer of Ochsner Health, to the podcast!

In this episode, Amy continues the conversation from her presentation at our 2024 Healthcare Education Summit about the innovative and collaborative initiatives happening at Ochsner and how they've built an incredible culture.

In our latest episode, we welcome David Winn, Vice President of Parkview Connect and Corporate HIM Operations to the podcast.

David joined us in New Orleans for our 2025 iMethods Healthcare Education Summit where he spoke about the Parkview Connect program and how his team has been able to collaborate with rural health systems with their Epic Community Connect Program.

Expanding on her panel discussion from our 2023 Healthcare Education Summit, our guest, Julianne Dearinger-Smith (Director of Clinical Application Support) at Baptist Health Care in Pensacola, FL, discusses her passion for employee development and professional growth and some of the tools she uses to engage her teams.

After a meaningful Women in Healthcare IT Leadership panel discussion at our 2023 Healthcare Education Summit,  we're pleased to welcome two incredible partners and female leaders to the show.  

Our host, Steffany Whiting, is joined by Kat Hasanovic, (Senior Director of Clinical EHR Applications at Baptist Health in Jacksonville, FL.) and Ingrid Napoletano, (AVP of Information Technology Applications at UConn Health in Farmington, CT.) 

In this episode, we're pleased to welcome Chief Information and Security Officer at Baptist Health Jacksonville, James Case, to the podcast!

In this episode, James and our host, Steffany Whiting, discuss best practices from the frontlines in assessing readiness, planning, response and managing recovery for cybersecurity threats to health systems.

Resources from the episode:
Free Cybersecurity Services and Tools | CISA 

405(d): Home (hhs.gov) 

405(d): HICP 2023 Edition (hhs.gov) (healthcare focused)

HSCC - Health Sector Council 

In this special episode, we’re happy to welcome back our CEO of iMethods, Clint Drawdy and to have our Vice President of Client Accounts, Melissa Brannon, on the show for the first time.

After receiving the 2023 Best in KLAS Award for HIT Staffing, we’re excited to dive deeper into our relationship with KLAS and discuss how its industry-leading research methodology and feedback have positively impacted our continuous improvement efforts.

Welcome back to the Connecting Healthcare IT podcast.

We're excited to welcome Julian Ammons, Director of IT Digital Cloud Development Operations at Baptist Health in Jacksonville, FL to this episode.

Julian shares how Baptist Health has been able to drive efficiencies and increase collaboration in the health system by creating an internal development team. 

In our latest episode, we welcome Sidney Dixon, Vice President and Chief Application Officer at Tower Health, to the show.

During our Fall 2022 Healthcare Education Summit, Sidney spoke on our Epic Panel and we're happy to have him back with us to discuss his experiences with implementing Epic Community Connect.

As health systems across the country look for enhanced security and efficiency, we've seen an increase in their use of moving applications to the cloud and leveraging cloud analytics.

In our next episode, we're happy to welcome Craig Schwabl, VP of IT Digital Solutions and Enterprise Analytics to share his team's journey to the cloud at University Hospitals in Cleveland, Ohio.

In our latest episode, we're pleased to welcome Karen Cohen, Assistant Vice President of Information Technology at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York, New York.

Karen shares with our host, Steffany Whiting, how she created a cross-functional team that took a unique approach to meet the information blocking requirements outlined in the 21st Century Cures Act.