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“If we don’t set them up for success, they’re going to have a lot of long nights. They’re going to have a lot of frustration,” said Gretchen Britt. In this interview, she talks about the importance of training, change management, and IT governance, and how she's applying lessons learned from her time as a nurse. Source: Q&A with VP of IT Gretchen Britt: “I’ve Felt the Frustration and I Want to Make It Better.” on healthsystemcio.com - healthsystemCIO.com is the sole online-only publication dedicated to exclusively and comprehensively serving the information needs of healthcare CIOs.

Having served in provider roles, as a consultant, and now as a vendor executive, Drex DeFord, Executive Healthcare Strategist with CrowdStrike, has just about seen it all. As such, it's not surprising he's picked up some best practices along the way. Among them are how important governance is to ensure the IT department is working on the right things, how to handle reduced budgets, and the benefits of allowing everyone on the team to work at the top of their license. In this Partner Perspective interview with healthsystemCIO Founder and Editor-in-Chief Anthony Guerra, DeFord offers some keys to handling these issues and many others. Source: Partner Perspective: Willingness to Disrupt Status Quo is Key to CISO Success on healthsystemcio.com - healthsystemCIO.com is the sole online-only publication dedicated to exclusively and comprehensively serving the information needs of healthcare CIOs.

The nature of work continues to change at lightning speed. First off, workers -- both clinicians and non-clinicians -- now need to be able to access key applications from anywhere on both company-issued and personal devices. Secondly, the apps being accessed are often no-longer in tightly controlled, on-prem data centers but in the cloud (and many different clouds at that). Not surprisingly, having so much variability in the combination of user, device and workload is proving to be a challenge for IT professionals. In this timely webinar, we'll speak to leaders who are skating to the puck, devising and implementing strategies that will allow their users to work where and how they want in as safe and secure a manner as possible. Source: Keys to Securing Tomorrow’s Workflows 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, “having a balance of technical and operational leadership is increasingly important,” said Denao Ruttino, Chief Innovation Officer at Southern Illinois Healthcare. In this podcast interview, he talks about the challenges facing rural health organizations, how his team is working to improve access, and why accountability is so critical. Source: Q&A with SIH Chief Innovation Officer Denao Ruttino: “Innovation Has to Be Embedded in Everything We Do.” on healthsystemcio.com - healthsystemCIO.com is the sole online-only publication dedicated to exclusively and comprehensively serving the information needs of healthcare CIOs.

“Everything we do has a digital component to it; therefore, everything we do has a cybersecurity component,” said Andrea Daugherty. In this podcast interview, she talks about the innovative work her team is doing, the challenges of recruiting top IT, and how she hopes to elevate cybersecurity as a career. Source: Q&A with Interim CIO Andrea Daugherty: “Cybersecurity Is at the Forefront of Everything We Do.” on healthsystemcio.com - healthsystemCIO.com is the sole online-only publication dedicated to exclusively and comprehensively serving the information needs of healthcare CIOs.

The problems facing healthcare today may not be new, but solving them is going to require a new approach, said Nicole Kerkenbush. In this podcast, she talked about the critical role technology can play in easing the burden on caregivers, why shadowing is so important, and the lessons she learned in the military. Source: Q&A with Monument Health’s Nicole Kerkenbush: “We have to adjust in ways that we haven’t before.” on healthsystemcio.com - healthsystemCIO.com is the sole online-only publication dedicated to exclusively and comprehensively serving the information needs of healthcare CIOs.

Adam Zoller, chief information security officer at Providence, a California-based health system with 53 hospitals and more than 1,000 clinics, says as much as he’d like to standardize things like employee access and devices management in an organization that large, it’s very hard – because so many exceptions are warranted. Instead, he focuses on identity-centric […] Source: Q&A with Providence CISO Adam Zoller: Start with Sound Policies, Then Customize with Required Exceptions on healthsystemcio.com - healthsystemCIO.com is the sole online-only publication dedicated to exclusively and comprehensively serving the information needs of healthcare CIOs.

One of the best things about high-performing software vendors is they're constantly updating their applications to make users more efficient and secure. But with this benefit comes a challenge -- the training provided upon hiring or implementation quickly becomes obsolete as time and upgrades go by. Unfortunately, if not addressed with additional training, users soon become dissatisfied with the tools they must use every day to get their jobs done. In this important webinar, we'll speak to leaders who are working to go beyond one-and-done classroom training with a more effective and less disruptive approach. Source: Strategies for Keeping Users Trained Up on Ever-Changing Applications on healthsystemcio.com - healthsystemCIO.com is the sole online-only publication dedicated to exclusively and comprehensively serving the information needs of healthcare CIOs.

The key to impressing Kent Sona, VP and CIO at Methodist Health System? Take ownership of a problem, even if it doesn’t fall under your purview. “Own and run with it,” he said during a recent interview. Sona also talked about forming strong vendor partnerships, addressing social determinants, and understanding the why. Source: Q&A with Nebraska Methodist CIO Kent Sona: “It’s about Caring for the Whole Person.” on healthsystemcio.com - healthsystemCIO.com is the sole online-only publication dedicated to exclusively and comprehensively serving the information needs of healthcare CIOs.

Health systems have no shortage of people who want to do amazing things with all the data at their disposal, such as providing clinical decision support at the point of care, leveraging genomic information for more tailored treatment plans, or developing AI algorithms. But those next-level uses only stand a chance of being effective if the data upon which they are built is high quality. In this important webinar, we'll hear from leaders who are working to raise the quality of data in their health systems so those looking to improve care based upon it can go forward with confidence. Source: Getting Your Data Ready for Next-Level Uses on healthsystemcio.com - healthsystemCIO.com is the sole online-only publication dedicated to exclusively and comprehensively serving the information needs of healthcare CIOs.