Sam Hanna, PhD, EVP of Consulting & Innovation and Chief Strategy Officer at Divurgent, has seen the evolution of CIO's roles first hand through his work with a wide variety of healthcare organizations and CIOs.  We had a chance to talk with him and he shared some of the keys he’s seen to developing collaborative leadership as a CIO at a healthcare organization.  As part of that, he shared examples of where he’s seen a leader effectively manage conflict with other operational leaders and what key skills are needed to do that effectively.  

Learn more about Divurgent: https://www.divurgent.com/  

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In her role at Hackensack Meridian Health, Pam Landis brings together IT, Communications and Operations to craft digital solutions that meet the needs of staff as well as patients. Hear her share some amazing projects from 2020 and tips on how to forge a successful career in marketing & IT.  

Learn more about HITMC: https://www.hitmc.com/

While it’s great for a company to have an inspiring origin story, the real question is what are they doing to address the problem.  Sitting down with Mike Noshay, Founder and Chief Strategy & Marketing Officer at Verinovum, we dove into the problem of dirty data in healthcare.  Noshay shared how we look at health data today and what we should be doing to think about it differently.  

Learn more about Verinovum: https://www.verinovum.com/ 

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Like many companies in healthcare, there’s a good reason why Verinovum is so interested in making sure the data in healthcare is clean.  It’s personal for Mark McCurry, President and CEO at Verinovum.  Check out his story and how Verinovum is working to ensure data provides value to healthcare organizations in the interview below.  

Learn more about Verinovum: https://www.verinovum.com/ 

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In case you missed it, some of the latest malware is targeting container technology including the very popular Kubernetes.  Considering the large number of healthcare vendors, this is an important topic to learn more about.  To dive into what's happening, I sat down with Ian Eyberg, CEO of NanoVMs.  Eyberg shares what he thinks is really happening and what it means for healthcare.  I also ask him about whether a healthcare organization's risk assessment should take this into account.  

Going beyond container malware, Eyberg also shares his thoughts on using containers and what he thinks about that approach.  Plus, he talks about how he thinks we should be approaching the problem and what he thinks the future will look like for containers in healthcare.    

If you're interested in learning more about containers in healthcare and more about NanoVMs approach, you'll enjoy this interview with Ian Eyberg.

What we don’t often talk about with natural disasters is the impact on healthcare and the role healthcare IT could play in helping during a disaster.  Plus, we often wait to talk about it after a disaster happens.  Since September is National Preparedness Month, we wanted to talk with an emergency preparedness expert, Lauren Knieser, Senior Director at Audacious Inquiry, to hear how they’re using Audacious Inquiry’s expertise in health data sharing to support natural disaster workers when a disaster hits.  

Learn more about Audacious Inquiry: https://ainq.com/ 

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Patients and physicians hate the referral process. It's inefficient, full of gaps and is frustrating for everyone involved. Yet the solution is simple: better relationships between referral partners. John Ellis from ReferralMD shares how improving referrals improves patient outcomes, saves $$$ and is what smart, growing practices are doing.   

Learn more at: https://getreferralmd.com/ 

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In order to share Magnolia Regional Health Center’s experience migrating EHRs, we sat down with Brian Davis, CHCIO, Chief Information Officer at Magnolia Regional Health Center, and Jim Hammer, PMP, SVP at Harmony Healthcare IT, to hear why they chose to only migrate part of the records to the new version of MEDITECH and what they did with the EHR data they didn’t migrate.  

Learn more about Harmony Healthcare IT: https://www.harmonyhit.com/ 

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We recently talked with Leon Lerman, CEO & Co-Founder of Cynerio, the leading provider of IoT cybersecurity and asset management solutions, about the security challenges healthcare faces.  In our interview, Lerman shared how important it was for healthcare organizations to have a well thought out plan to address risks associated with IoT devices.  

Learn more about Cynerio: https://www.cynerio.com/ 

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I recently sat down with Kevin Bridges, VP of Marketing and Business Development, and Marc LaFleur, VP of New Customer Development at Enovate Medical, to talk over all the various EHR documentation workstation options available today and how healthcare organizations should navigate them.  They share the latest options and the explosion of peripherals that are needed with the workstations.  They also talk about whether workstations need to be mobile or not and the evolution we've seen when it comes to mobility.  

If you want to understand some of the latest insights into how to better manage your healthcare workstations, you'll enjoy this interview.  

Learn more about Enovate Medical: https://www.enovatemedical.com/ 

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