healthsystemCIO – Strategies for Hospital IT Leaders

Perhaps the most important advantage of having already been through an Epic implementation? You’ve already learned “what the cycles and trends are,” and know how to navigate them, says CIO Debbie Cancilla.

Source: Q&A with CIO Debbie Cancilla, Part 1: “Culture Drives a lot of Your Capabilities.” on healthsystemcio.com - Interviews & Webinars with Health System IT Leaders

The most exciting – and at the same time, most intimidating – part of being a health IT leader today? The pressure to deliver technologies that will improve the patient’s experience, says CIO Christopher Timbers.

Source: Q&A with CIO Christopher Timbers, Part 3: “We Have a Direct Impact on Our Competitiveness.” on healthsystemcio.com - Interviews & Webinars with Health System IT Leaders

Let’s face it – when you don’t see patients on a daily basis, it’s extremely difficult to understand how technology impacts their experience. So what can CIOs do? Bring the two groups together, says Zafar Chaudry, MD, CIO at Seattle Children’s.

Source: Q&A with CIO Zafar Chaudry, MD, Chapter 1: “We’re in the Business of Patients.” on healthsystemcio.com - Interviews & Webinars with Health System IT Leaders

A health system can offer the coolest patient engagement tools around, but without the right workflows and infrastructure, it can become “a new version of the same aggravation,” says CIO Christopher Timbers.

Source: Q&A with CIO Christopher Timbers, Part 2: “Technology Isn’t the Challenge.” on healthsystemcio.com - Interviews & Webinars with Health System IT Leaders

The more quickly we can sort through data to identify cancers and determine optimal treatment pathways, the better care we can deliver, says CIO Andy Corts, who discusses how his team is carrying out Sarah Cannon's mission.

Source: Q&A with Sarah Cannon’s Andy Corts, Part 2: Finding the Right Pathways on healthsystemcio.com - Interviews & Webinars with Health System IT Leaders

“There’s security and safety in doing things that are known,” says CIO Aaron Miri, who believes the hallmark of a great leader is being willing to step out of the comfort zone and take risks.

Source: Aaron Miri, CIO, Dell Medical School & UT Health Austin, Chapter 3 on healthsystemcio.com - Interviews & Webinars with Health System IT Leaders

Health IT leaders can’t deliver a perfect EHR system – there are always going to be issues. What you can do, says CIO Christopher Timbers, is engage with users to work through them.

Source: Q&A with NorthBay CIO Christopher Timbers, Part 1: “What Can We Do Better?” on healthsystemcio.com - Interviews & Webinars with Health System IT Leaders

With a large organization like Sarah Cannon, the challenge isn’t getting data, but rather, getting it in an unstructured way that enables caregivers to access information when they need it, says CIO Andy Corts.

Source: Q&A with Sarah Cannon’s Andy Corts, Part 1: Defining a Cancer Data Model on healthsystemcio.com - Interviews & Webinars with Health System IT Leaders

Sometimes all it takes is a simple question – ‘Did you know this was happening?’ – to close the gap between senior executives and those on the front line, and help determine the best possible solutions, says CIO Aaron Miri.

Source: Aaron Miri, CIO, Dell Medical School & UT Health Austin, Chapter 2 on healthsystemcio.com - Interviews & Webinars with Health System IT Leaders

It’s just as important for CIOs to able to communicate the vision as it is to create it, says Kathy Ross, who talks about the critical role mentors and professional organizations can play in developing leaders.

Source: Q&A with Broward Health’s Kathy Ross, Part 2: Communicating the Vision on healthsystemcio.com - Interviews & Webinars with Health System IT Leaders