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“Sometimes it isn’t about looking at new technology, but thinking about how to do things differently,” said Michelle Stansbury, VP of Innovation and IT Applications at Houston Methodist. In this interview, she talks about the value of co-development, the “true partnership” between IT and operations, and what it takes to build a culture of innovation. Source: Q&A with Houston Methodist’s Michelle Stansbury: “It’s All About the Problem You’re Trying to Solve.” on healthsystemcio.com - healthsystemCIO.com is the sole online-only publication dedicated to exclusively and comprehensively serving the information needs of healthcare CIOs.

With the increasing volume, sophistication, and intensity of cyber-attacks, hospitals need a paradigm shift to keep from being overwhelmed. Information security teams are constantly being asked to master these challenges while simultaneously reducing costs. Even without factoring in budget constraints, hiring enough staff qualified cybersecurity defenders is nearly impossible. This talk will present code dark – a novel approach to expanding the ranks of cybersecurity first responders and the other force-multipliers implemented by Children’s National Hospital. Source: Code Dark: Finding Force Multipliers in Hospital Cybersecurity on healthsystemcio.com - healthsystemCIO.com is the sole online-only publication dedicated to exclusively and comprehensively serving the information needs of healthcare CIOs.

If you don’t want to keep learning, heading up IT security for a health system is probably not for you. At least that’s one obvious takeaway from speaking to WVU Medicine CISO Hunter Barbour, who lists the impending marriage of AI and quantum computing as a possible game changer for security professionals. So Barbour is […] Source: Q&A with WVU Medicine CISO Hunter Barbour on healthsystemcio.com - healthsystemCIO.com is the sole online-only publication dedicated to exclusively and comprehensively serving the information needs of healthcare CIOs.

For healthcare IT leaders, “the technology is the easy part,” said Chris Carmody, CTO at UPMC, during a recent interview. The real challenge comes in maintaining strong relationships with stakeholders.” He also talked about the benefits of migrating analytics to the cloud, why third-party risk management should be top of mind, and why he sees “a bright future” for healthcare. Source: Q&A with UPMC’s Chris Carmody: Healthcare’s “Target,” Cloud-based Analytics & Changing Care Pathways on healthsystemcio.com - healthsystemCIO.com is the sole online-only publication dedicated to exclusively and comprehensively serving the information needs of healthcare CIOs.

As a practicing ER physician, Christian Dameff, medical director of cybersecurity at UC San Diego Health, is one of the first in the nation to bridge the clinical world and cybersecurity, thus bringing credibility and understanding of cyber efforts to the clinical team. Dameff works closely with CISO Scott Currie and, in this interview with […] Source: Q&A with UC San Diego Health CISO Scott Currie & Medical Director of Cybersecurity Christian Dameff on healthsystemcio.com - healthsystemCIO.com is the sole online-only publication dedicated to exclusively and comprehensively serving the information needs of healthcare CIOs.

Though he’s just coming up on his one-year anniversary, Geisinger Health System CISO Zack Gable sounds like an executive with many more years leading security under his belt. That’s because Gable knows his job is about “business enablement,” or empowering clinicians with the tools they need to provide superior patient care, rather than putting the […] Source: Q&A with Geisinger Health System CISO Zack Gable on healthsystemcio.com - healthsystemCIO.com is the sole online-only publication dedicated to exclusively and comprehensively serving the information needs of healthcare CIOs.

Even in 2023, women face unique challenges rising to C-suite levels in the workplace, and healthcare IT is no exception. Yet there are actions all leaders can take to strengthen the pipeline of women moving in that direction. In this timely webinar, a panel of highly effective and accomplished healthcare IT leaders will share their personal career journeys, provide advice for both women and men interested in supporting the careers of women in the workplace, and offer their latest thinking on how best to achieve the digital transformation everyone in healthcare is after. Source: Developing the Next-Generation of Women Healthcare IT Leaders & Driving Transformational Digital Change  on healthsystemcio.com - healthsystemCIO.com is the sole online-only publication dedicated to exclusively and comprehensively serving the information needs of healthcare CIOs.

Building engagement tools in a way that “surfaces through the care team” is a critical goal for Ashis Barad, MD, Chief Digital and Information Officer at Allegheny Health Network. But it can’t be “built in a way that’s just adding burden to the care teams by having more alerts put in front of them,” he said in this interview. Source: Q&A with Allegheny Health CDIO Ashis Barad, MD: “We Need to Do the Hard Work of Laying Down the Foundation.” on healthsystemcio.com - healthsystemCIO.com is the sole online-only publication dedicated to exclusively and comprehensively serving the information needs of healthcare CIOs.

The bane of every IT executives existence – from CIO to CTO to CISO – is a complex environment. And nothing contributes to such complexity like hundreds (or even thousands) of applications from dozens of different vendors. Thus, many leaders are working to formalize a rational approach to application selection, along with a reduction of duplication among existing vendors. But challenges abound, as sometimes these tools can be purchased at the departmental level without notifying IT until the last minute, or even later. In this timely webinar, we'll speak to executives who are working hard to create formal and informal governance processes by which users first look in suite at a few strategic vendors before picking up a new tool that requires a new vendor relationship.  Source: Strategies for Pursuing a Comprehensive Application Rationalization Approach on healthsystemcio.com - healthsystemCIO.com is the sole online-only publication dedicated to exclusively and comprehensively serving the information needs of healthcare CIOs.

After more than a quarter century with the organization, John Houston knows how to find his way around UPMC. And when it comes to being an effective security leader, that not only helps him move complex issues along, but also ensures everyone else knows who to come to for any security-related concerns. His guiding mantra? […] Source: Q&A with UPMC VP of Info Sec & Privacy, and Associate Counsel, John Houston on healthsystemcio.com - healthsystemCIO.com is the sole online-only publication dedicated to exclusively and comprehensively serving the information needs of healthcare CIOs.