September 20: Today on TownHall Karla Arzola, Director of Information Technology - Swedish Medical Center at HealthONE speaks with Wes Williams, VP & CIO at WellPower about the mental health center’s rebranding and recent initiatives. Why did they decide to change their name and rebrand themselves? What impacts does he see from their new services? What are his thoughts on value based care versus fee for service? From a mental health center perspective, what disruptive factors in the healthcare field is he most excited about?

Sign up for our webinar: Patient Room 'Next': Improving Care Efficiency - Thursday September 29, 2022: 1pm ET / 10am PT - https://thisweekhealth.com/briefing_campaigns/patient-room-next-improving-care-efficiency/

September 15: Today on TownHall Reid Stephan, VP and CIO at St. Lukes interviews Andrea Daugherty, Interim CIO & Director of IT Security and Infrastructure at Dell Medical School at the University of Texas at Austin. What was her unconventional journey to her current CIO role at Dell Medical? What initiatives has she led to help build optimization and collaboration within the organization? What is she most excited about looking into the future of her position?

Sign up for our webinar: Patient Room 'Next': Improving Care Efficiency - Thursday September 29, 2022: 1pm ET / 10am PT - https://thisweekhealth.com/briefing_campaigns/patient-room-next-improving-care-efficiency/

September 13: Today on TownHall Lee Milligan, former SVP & CIO for Asante Health interviews Kyle Gibson, Director - Strategic Sales West for Agfa HealthCare about the evolving interactions between vendors and CIOs brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic. What was it like for vendors to interact over the internet rather than over lunch face-to-face? How has this changed Kyle's outlook on relationships and investing in his customers? What are new challenges that have arisen from navigating a new way of communication? What is the best policy for business and building a reputation?

September 8: Today on TownHall Solome Tibebu, Founder & Host of Going Digital: Behavioral Health Tech speaks with Snezana Mahon, Chief Operating Officer at Transcarent about a more holistic approach to engaging with employees about their health coverage. What does she see as the largest challenges in providing behavioral health? How do they engage with rural and underserved communities? What methods can be used to reduce the stigma of using the health services provided?

Sign up for our webinar: Challenges and Solutions to Unmanaged Devices in Healthcare - Thursday September 8, 2022: 1pm ET / 10am PT. If we had to troubleshoot just a few devices every once in a while, our hospital systems would run as smooth as butter, right? But when missing devices, security issues and friction caused by interoperability hits, we can’t expect a smooth operation. Our webinar will answer many questions surrounding the devices integral to keeping patients healthy. 

Sign up for our webinar: Patient Room Next: Improving Care Efficiency - Thursday September 29, 2022: 1pm ET / 10am PT. Traditional patient rooms involve sitting on the table, waiting, tentative knocks on the door. We’re redefining the way we look at patient rooms. We’re reimagining the future. Hear about technological tools that have been explored and implemented for clinician effectiveness, how to step into the “Patient Room Next” future, and the progress in our Nation’s health systems regarding PRN. Bring your hospital system into tomorrow with sound advancements and peace of mind. We’re looking to advance healthcare, and we know you are too.

September 6: Today on TownHall Karla Arzola, Director of Information Technology - Swedish Medical Center at HealthONE speaks with Andy Draper, CIO at HCA Healthcare about climate change, how healthcare factors into the equation, and how CIOs can help drive change for carbon emission reduction initiatives. They also discuss an article predicting that the next 1,000 $1B startups will be in climate tech. What inspired him to start the Green CIO initiative? What are some climate change specific risks he sees for healthcare? What are some things CIOs and organizations can do to start the journey to net zero emissions?

A Look Back: Reid Stephan and Todd Dunn on Curiosity In Leadership

September 1: Today on TownHall we wanted to highlight this leadership conversation from February between Reid Stephan, VP and CIO at St. Lukes and Todd Dunn, Vice President of Innovation at Atrium Health. Clay Christensen was an American academic and business consultant who developed the theory of "disruptive innovation", which has been called the most influential business idea of the early 21st century. What entices someone to work in innovation? How do they make sense of that world? Culture is an essential element. What advice would you offer someone who is trying to create a culture of innovation at their workplace? What innovation initiatives are Atrium Health leading today?

Sign up for our webinar: Challenges and Solutions to Unmanaged Devices in Healthcare - Thursday September 8, 2022: 1pm ET / 10am PT. If we had to troubleshoot just a few devices every once in a while, our hospital systems would run as smooth as butter, right? But when missing devices, security issues and friction caused by interoperability hits, we can’t expect a smooth operation. Our webinar will answer many questions surrounding the devices integral to keeping patients healthy.

August 30: Today on TownHall Mark Weisman, CIO and CMIO at TidalHealth interviews Michael Suk, Chief Physician Officer, Geisinger System Service and Chair of Musculoskeletal Institute & Department of Orthopaedic Surgeries at Geisinger Health System about their lifetime guarantee for certain procedures. How are they able to offer this guarantee to their patients? What supporting technologies help make this guarantee possible? What are some of the challenges in working with a rural population and how do they overcome them?

Sign up for our webinar: Challenges and Solutions to Unmanaged Devices in Healthcare - Thursday September 8, 2022: 1pm ET / 10am PT. If we had to troubleshoot just a few devices every once in a while, our hospital systems would run as smooth as butter, right? But when missing devices, security issues and friction caused by interoperability hits, we can’t expect a smooth operation. Our webinar will answer many questions surrounding the devices integral to keeping patients healthy.

August 25: Today on TownHall Jake Lancaster, Chief Medical Information Officer at Baptist Memorial Health Care interviews Dr. David Byers, Senior Medical Director for Infectious Disease at Southern Ohio Medical Center about how the center used their EHR to automate and more accurately detect and categorize C.Diff infections sooner. What buy-in did they have initially for the new automation? How do they use a dashboard to track and measure their new system?

Read about other quality efforts undertaken at Southern Ohio Medical Center here

Sign up for our webinar: Challenges and Solutions to Unmanaged Devices in Healthcare - Thursday September 8, 2022: 1pm ET / 10am PT

August 23: Today on TownHall, Sue Schade, Principal at StarBridge Advisors speaks with Lisa Stump, SVP, Chief Information & Digital Transformation Officer at Yale New Haven Health System. What are some of her team's current initiatives and how have things changed since the height of the pandemic? What are some of the challenges in dealing with two different constituencies in the university environment and the health system environment? What are some of her key takeaways and successes regarding her involvement with an important leadership development program?

Sign up for our webinar: Challenges and Solutions to Unmanaged Devices in Healthcare - Thursday September 8, 2022: 1pm ET / 10am PT

August 18: Today on TownHall Brett Oliver, Family Physician and Chief Medical Information Officer at Baptist Health speaks with Joey Bargo, Radiologist and Clinical Informaticist at Thynk Health about AI algorithms in healthcare. What are the major limitations for mass adoption of AI for organizations looking to start using it? What are the challenges in evaluating the data once implemented? What is an organization's obligation to transparency when using AI?

Webinar: Don’t Pay The Ransom - Thu Aug 18 @ 1pm ET / 10am PT

Is your health system paying out for attacks on your data? How can we stop the cycle? Rubrik is offering incredible insight into the arising issues in cyber resilience in ransomware attacks, cloud data management with securing Epic in Azure, and unstructured data. In this webinar, we analyze the best practices to initiate in our hospital systems. Register here