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Anthony Guerra
Comprehensive interviews and panel discussions with health system IT leaders.
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Oct 15, 2025 • 48min
Memorial’s Weiss Taming “Rogue Notes” So AI Can Flourish
Michael Weiss, MD, Associate CMIO, Memorial Healthcare System; and Assistant Medical Director Pediatric Emergency Medicine Joe Dimaggio Children’s Hospital, is leading a push to curb idiosyncratic documentation that can undermine quality, compliance, and the value of emerging AI. In a wide-ranging discussion, he described a “Rogue Note” campaign that preserves clinician flexibility but insists that […]
Source: Memorial’s Weiss Taming “Rogue Notes” So AI Can Flourish on healthsystemcio.com - healthsystemCIO.com is the sole online-only publication dedicated to exclusively and comprehensively serving the information needs of healthcare CIOs.

Oct 14, 2025 • 58min
Optimizing Ambient AI Adoption Across the Care Team
Health systems that have implemented ambient AI technology often face a familiar challenge: ensuring consistent adoption and maximizing its value across diverse clinical roles. This webinar will examine strategies IT leaders can use to assess, measure, and improve ambient AI utilization, from high-level workforce analytics to role-specific and individual provider engagement. Panelists will discuss methods for identifying adoption gaps, tailoring interventions for high-impact clinicians, and balancing broad educational initiatives with personalized, at-the-elbow support. The conversation will also explore approaches for onboarding new staff, refining training for existing users, and leveraging data-driven insights to sustain long-term adoption gains.
Source: Optimizing Ambient AI Adoption Across the Care Team on healthsystemcio.com - healthsystemCIO.com is the sole online-only publication dedicated to exclusively and comprehensively serving the information needs of healthcare CIOs.

Oct 8, 2025 • 40min
Dr. John Lee on Epic Optimization, Managing Data During M&A, & AI Priorities Ahead
In a wide-ranging interview, John Lee, MD, Emergency Physician, Edward Hospital Naperville; Informaticist, & Epic Consultant, outlined a disciplined approach to getting more value from Epic while preparing for an AI-enabled future. He emphasized that health systems are still leaving significant capability untapped, urged CIOs to define firm boundaries for customization, and described how consolidating […]
Source: Dr. John Lee on Epic Optimization, Managing Data During M&A, & AI Priorities Ahead on healthsystemcio.com - healthsystemCIO.com is the sole online-only publication dedicated to exclusively and comprehensively serving the information needs of healthcare CIOs.

Oct 8, 2025 • 39min
Duke Health Tightens AI Governance, Scales Pilots
Eric Poon, MD, MPH, Chief Health Information Officer, Duke University Health System, described how the organization is moving AI from scattered experiments to an operating discipline aligned with enterprise strategy. Poon outlined a single intake for technology decisions with added lifecycle oversight when AI is involved, and a bias toward evidence-based scaling. He said the […]
Source: Duke Health Tightens AI Governance, Scales Pilots on healthsystemcio.com - healthsystemCIO.com is the sole online-only publication dedicated to exclusively and comprehensively serving the information needs of healthcare CIOs.

Oct 8, 2025 • 59min
From Conversation to Contract: Keys to Getting off on the Right Foot with Startups & Other Vendors
Early vendor engagements can set the trajectory for years. This session examines how health systems should structure first steps with startups and other vendors—clarifying data-sharing parameters, defining realistic timelines, and establishing criteria for expansion or termination. Panelists will detail how to frame success metrics that both parties can measure, align governance and decision rights, and distinguish when a limited pilot, phased rollout, or full contract is appropriate. The discussion also addresses risk management, IP and other considerations, including the handoffs between innovation teams, IT, compliance, and operations to avoid costly misalignment. Drawing on case examples, leaders will outline practical suggestions that help move from conversation to concept to contract with discipline.
Source: From Conversation to Contract: Keys to Getting off on the Right Foot with Startups & Other Vendors on healthsystemcio.com - healthsystemCIO.com is the sole online-only publication dedicated to exclusively and comprehensively serving the information needs of healthcare CIOs.

Oct 2, 2025 • 54min
Coordinating IT Training to Improve Usability and Reduce Burnout
Effective IT training is a critical, yet often underappreciated, factor in health system performance. This webinar will examine how information technology executives can oversee and coordinate training for new hires, existing staff learning upgraded applications, and high-level users requiring advanced support. Panelists will discuss strategies for balancing the roles of IT, informatics, HR, vendors, and third-party trainers to ensure consistent education. They will also address how training impacts usability, influences clinician satisfaction, and connects to burnout reduction, while exploring data-driven methods to identify systemic versus individual knowledge gaps.
Source: Coordinating IT Training to Improve Usability and Reduce Burnout on healthsystemcio.com - healthsystemCIO.com is the sole online-only publication dedicated to exclusively and comprehensively serving the information needs of healthcare CIOs.

Oct 1, 2025 • 30min
Pronovost Leading Whole-Hospital Remote Care Innovation at University Hospitals
Peter Pronovost, MD, PhD, Chief Clinical Transformation Officer, University Hospitals, is advancing a system-wide push to improve quality while reducing burden and cost. In a recent discussion with healthsystemCIO, he detailed a multi-year effort to reach “zero harm, zero suffering, zero waste, and zero inequities,” described a whole-hospital remote care platform now operating at Lake […]
Source: Pronovost Leading Whole-Hospital Remote Care Innovation at University Hospitals on healthsystemcio.com - healthsystemCIO.com is the sole online-only publication dedicated to exclusively and comprehensively serving the information needs of healthcare CIOs.

Sep 30, 2025 • 31min
Embedding AI Where It Matters: UCI Health’s Pandita on Governance, Vendors and the Go/No-Go Moment
Deepti Pandita, MD, CMIO & VP of Clinical Informatics, UCI Health, thinks that the fastest path to value with AI is to stop treating it as a side project and weave it directly into existing operational priorities. “AI should be embedded into whatever your strategic projects are or whatever problems are being solved at the […]
Source: Embedding AI Where It Matters: UCI Health’s Pandita on Governance, Vendors and the Go/No-Go Moment on healthsystemcio.com - healthsystemCIO.com is the sole online-only publication dedicated to exclusively and comprehensively serving the information needs of healthcare CIOs.

Sep 24, 2025 • 47min
Geisinger Refines AI Governance and Workforce Literacy
Morgan Jeffries, MD, Medical Director for AI at Geisinger and his colleagues, are reshaping how a large integrated health system organizes, oversees, and educates around AI — moving from a small, model-building shop to a cross-functional product organization with formal risk review and a rising emphasis on workforce literacy for AI tools. Within Geisinger’s AI […]
Source: Geisinger Refines AI Governance and Workforce Literacy on healthsystemcio.com - healthsystemCIO.com is the sole online-only publication dedicated to exclusively and comprehensively serving the information needs of healthcare CIOs.

Sep 15, 2025 • 49min
Partner Perspective: Artera’s de Zwirek Says IT Leaders Must Commit to Becoming AI Experts; Outlines Three Paths to Deploying Agents
Guillaume de Zwirek, CEO, Artera, says health system technology leaders face a simple choice in an increasingly AI-saturated market: master the details or risk falling behind. In a wide-ranging discussion, he argued that the pace of change now rivals the industry’s COVID-era telehealth surge and is forcing CIOs and their teams to make faster, better-informed […]
Source: Partner Perspective: Artera’s de Zwirek Says IT Leaders Must Commit to Becoming AI Experts; Outlines Three Paths to Deploying Agents on healthsystemcio.com - healthsystemCIO.com is the sole online-only publication dedicated to exclusively and comprehensively serving the information needs of healthcare CIOs.


