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Anthony Guerra
Comprehensive interviews and panel discussions with health system IT leaders.
Episodes
Mentioned books

Nov 24, 2015 • 12min
Myra Davis, SVP & CIO, Texas Children’s Hospital, Chapter 2
Dashboard education
“The ability to understand technology is where we’re falling short.”
Focus on evidence-based guidelines
IS participation in care groups — “They realize they speak very different languages.”
Adopting a clinical liaison model
Plan, do, study, act — “If it’s not working, we’ll figure out how to make it better.”
Source: Myra Davis, SVP & CIO, Texas Children’s Hospital, Chapter 2 on healthsystemcio.com - healthsystemCIO.com is the sole online-only publication dedicated to exclusively and comprehensively serving the information needs of healthcare CIOs.

Nov 23, 2015 • 12min
Brian Sterud, VP of IT & CIO, Faith Regional Health Services, Chapter 3
From “hands-on” role to strategic management
Coming home to Faith Regional
CHIME Boot Camp & CHCIO certification
“It was a nice way to advance beyond my years.”
MBA in healthcare administration
Today’s CIOs — “You have to be able to adjust very quickly.”
Transformational vs transactional leaders
Source: Brian Sterud, VP of IT & CIO, Faith Regional Health Services, Chapter 3 on healthsystemcio.com - healthsystemCIO.com is the sole online-only publication dedicated to exclusively and comprehensively serving the information needs of healthcare CIOs.

Nov 18, 2015 • 11min
Myra Davis, SVP & CIO, Texas Children’s Hospital, Chapter 1
About Texas Children’s Hospital
Epic in hospitals & clinics
Finding the right balance with data access
“Don’t underestimate the level you have to go through to the explain data.”
Population health
Future EDW plans — “The concept of data is never-ending.”
Source: Myra Davis, SVP & CIO, Texas Children’s Hospital, Chapter 1 on healthsystemcio.com - healthsystemCIO.com is the sole online-only publication dedicated to exclusively and comprehensively serving the information needs of healthcare CIOs.

Nov 17, 2015 • 14min
Brian Sterud, VP of IT & CIO, Faith Regional Health Services, Chapter 2
The “Holy Grail” for portals
Security & the industry-wide “Sense of urgency”
External penetration tests & internal threat tests
Security committee with cross-section representation
“We have the platform to have the discussions that we need to have.”
Having a CEO who “gets it.”
MU 2 attestation with providers
Source: Brian Sterud, VP of IT & CIO, Faith Regional Health Services, Chapter 2 on healthsystemcio.com - healthsystemCIO.com is the sole online-only publication dedicated to exclusively and comprehensively serving the information needs of healthcare CIOs.

Nov 11, 2015 • 14min
Brian Sterud, VP of IT & CIO, Faith Regional Health Services, Chapter 1
About Faith Regional
Being independent — “From an IT perspective, it’s incredible.”
Soarian in the hospital, NextGen in clinics
EHR evaluation process in Q1 2016 — “We’re exploring our options.”
Data flow between hospital & clinics
Biggest MU 2 hurdles
Leveraging MobileMD to hit thresholds
Source: Brian Sterud, VP of IT & CIO, Faith Regional Health Services, Chapter 1 on healthsystemcio.com - healthsystemCIO.com is the sole online-only publication dedicated to exclusively and comprehensively serving the information needs of healthcare CIOs.

Nov 9, 2015 • 17min
Keith Jennings, CIO, Massachusetts General Hospital & Physicians Organization, Chapter 3
Applying PI principles to helpdesk support
Keys to fostering innovation
15 years at Mass General
Filling Jim Noga’s shoes — “There was no learning curve.”
Past lives in programming & consulting
Epic changes — “Our world will be significantly different after we go live.”
The “larger value-add” of today’s CIO
Source: Keith Jennings, CIO, Massachusetts General Hospital & Physicians Organization, Chapter 3 on healthsystemcio.com - healthsystemCIO.com is the sole online-only publication dedicated to exclusively and comprehensively serving the information needs of healthcare CIOs.

Nov 4, 2015 • 18min
Keith Jennings, CIO, Massachusetts General Hospital & Physicians Organization, Chapter 2
Role of case managers in pop health
ACO pioneer — “We built a lot of history and protocol and function in this area.”
90/10 rule
Creating a “hub” for best practices
Life as a “recovering programmer”
Fostering innovation — “That’s my dessert.”
Source: Keith Jennings, CIO, Massachusetts General Hospital & Physicians Organization, Chapter 2 on healthsystemcio.com - healthsystemCIO.com is the sole online-only publication dedicated to exclusively and comprehensively serving the information needs of healthcare CIOs.

Nov 3, 2015 • 14min
Mike Canfield, VP of Operations & CIO, Firelands Regional Medical Center, Chapter 3
IT liaison to the clinical team — “It was a great look into operations.”
Project management experience with Kaiser
Staying out of the weeds & “focused on the more strategic role.”
Recruiting challenges
“We do our best to grown our own talent.”
Keys to staff engagement
Source: Mike Canfield, VP of Operations & CIO, Firelands Regional Medical Center, Chapter 3 on healthsystemcio.com - healthsystemCIO.com is the sole online-only publication dedicated to exclusively and comprehensively serving the information needs of healthcare CIOs.

Oct 28, 2015 • 16min
Keith Jennings, CIO, Massachusetts General Hospital & Physicians Organization, Chapter 1
About Mass General & MGPO
Governance structure at Partners
“Natural tension” between CIOs & CMIOs
Going “soup to nuts” with Epic across Partners
Live with rev cycle, planning a “staggered wave” for clinicals
“We’re hoping for some quick wins.”
Facing a major strategic change — “The world changed.”
Source: Keith Jennings, CIO, Massachusetts General Hospital & Physicians Organization, Chapter 1 on healthsystemcio.com - healthsystemCIO.com is the sole online-only publication dedicated to exclusively and comprehensively serving the information needs of healthcare CIOs.

Oct 27, 2015 • 13min
Mike Canfield, VP of Operations & CIO, Firelands Regional Medical Center, Chapter 2
Creating the right-sized EHR selection team — “We’re not trying to do a backroom deal.”
Relying on consultants to fill in the gaps
Vendor management — “It’s a whole different relationship now.”
Sharing best practices — “I’m a huge fan of stealing shamelessly.”
4 years at Firelands
Dealing with a leadership shake-up
Source: Mike Canfield, VP of Operations & CIO, Firelands Regional Medical Center, Chapter 2 on healthsystemcio.com - healthsystemCIO.com is the sole online-only publication dedicated to exclusively and comprehensively serving the information needs of healthcare CIOs.


