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Candid journalism and leadership insights for the modern Hospital CIO. healthsystemCIO is the definitive resource for Health System executives navigating Cybersecurity, AI Governance, and Digital Transformation. Hosted by Anthony Guerra, a veteran Healthcare IT Journalist.
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Most health systems are deploying AI tools faster than they can evaluate them. Penn State Health’s informaticists explain why piloting with discipline and designing for the clinician workflow separates lasting gains from expensive disappointments.
Source: Penn State Health’s DeFlitch & Hijjawi Say Past Lessons Can Help Guide Today’s AI Implementations on healthsystemcio.com - Interviews & Webinars with Health System IT Leaders
Most health systems trust vendors to solve their population health data problems. Corewell’s Associate CMIO explains why that approach collapsed and what his team built instead to bridge the gap between clinical complexity and enterprise analytics.
Source: Corewell Health’s Jarve Says Population Health Data Challenges Demand Internal Builds on healthsystemcio.com - Interviews & Webinars with Health System IT Leaders
How should health systems prepare to operate when their EHR goes down? In this healthsystemCIO webinar sponsored by Interlace Health, three healthcare IT leaders share how their organizations approach operational resilience during planned and unplanned downtime events.
Source: IT Leaders Say Downtime Prep is a System-Wide Responsibility; Practicing the Plan is Essential on healthsystemcio.com - Interviews & Webinars with Health System IT Leaders
Most CIOs are still focused on getting the EMR right. One health system has already moved past that and into spatial computing, with a practicing surgeon leading the charge. The path they followed holds lessons for everyone else.
Source: Sharp HealthCare’s Korn Says Spatial Computing Gives Clinicians Superpowers, But Demands a Strong IT Foundation on healthsystemcio.com - Interviews & Webinars with Health System IT Leaders
Most health systems think their EHR works fine because no one complains. Three physician-leaders explain why that silence is the real problem and how strategic governance and workflow rigor set the stage for AI that actually delivers.
Source: Leaders Break Down Keys to EMR Optimization; Warn Unaddressed Friction Speeds Burnout on healthsystemcio.com - Interviews & Webinars with Health System IT Leaders
When clinicians and IT leaders build together from the start, the results speak for themselves. Rush's Associate CMIO shares the partnership playbook behind a handoff tool adopted by 25 health systems and an AI chatbot built in two weekends.
Source: Rush University Medical Center’s Rojas Explains How IT & Clinicians Can Truly Partner on healthsystemcio.com - Interviews & Webinars with Health System IT Leaders
Keith Duemling explains why Catholic Health treats cybersecurity as a chronic condition requiring continuous management rather than an episodic fix. Managing cybersecurity at a health system is less like performing surgery and more like treating diabetes. That is the operating philosophy Keith Duemling, VP/CISO at Catholic Health, brought to his first year leading the security […]
Source: Catholic Health’s Keith Duemling: Why Cybersecurity is a Chronic Condition, Not an Episode on healthsystemcio.com - Interviews & Webinars with Health System IT Leaders
Christina Kochan, Healthcare Solution Architect at CTG, explains why organizing clinical informatics teams by service line instead of by application reveals workflow gaps that product-focused IT structures miss, and how value stream mapping can follow the patient across every handoff, system, and care setting to eliminate friction.
Source: CTG’s Kochan Says Patient-Centric Workflow Mapping Exposes Gaps Product-Focused IT Teams Can Miss on healthsystemcio.com - Interviews & Webinars with Health System IT Leaders
Simon Nazarian explains why City of Hope builds AI governance into the technical foundation to move beyond pilots and ensure safe, scaled clinical care. City of Hope has built a proprietary generative AI platform that converts thousands of pages of patient medical records into actionable clinical summaries in seconds, saving physicians hours of after-hours chart […]
Source: City of Hope’s Nazarian Says AI Governance Must Be Built Into the System on healthsystemcio.com - Interviews & Webinars with Health System IT Leaders
Nurses at HCA Healthcare carry more than 100,000 smartphones on the job every day, part of a decade-long mobile strategy that has fundamentally reshaped how the nation’s largest for-profit health system delivers bedside care. One of the architects of that clinical technology strategy, Sherri Hess, VP/CNIO, says the devices are only as valuable as the […]
Source: HCA’s Hess Says Key to Supporting Clinicians and Patients is Staying Connected on healthsystemcio.com - Interviews & Webinars with Health System IT Leaders
Julie Demaree explains how St. Mary’s Healthcare optimized medication alerts and clinician rounding to earn a solid Leapfrog safety grade on a rural budget. A 130-bed independent hospital in Amsterdam, New York, earned a Leapfrog B safety grade by tackling one of the most daunting challenges in clinical IT: getting medication alerts right. St. Mary’s […]
Source: St. Mary’s Demaree Says Small Rural Hospitals Can Achieve Top Safety Grades Without Big Budgets on healthsystemcio.com - Interviews & Webinars with Health System IT Leaders
Epic is working with a North Dakota health system to build a streamlined implementation model for smaller organizations, a move that could reshape how community hospitals and regional systems access the company’s platform. The collaboration grew out of an unlikely proving ground: a simultaneous Epic and Workday go-live at Trinity Health in Minot, N.D., where […]
Source: Trinity Health’s McDaniel Says Epic Considering New Implementation Protocol for Smaller Health Systems; 3rd-Party Pre-Bundling on the Table on healthsystemcio.com - Interviews & Webinars with Health System IT Leaders
Hospitals will only adopt AI as fast as their least-prepared workers can absorb it: that’s the operating principle behind the AI strategy at one of Ireland’s largest academic medical centers. Dr. Guido Giunti, chief data officer at St. James’s Hospital Dublin, is building his entire digital transformation around a literacy-first model, investing in education and […]
Source: St. James Hospital Dublin’s Giunti Says AI Transformation Starts With Literacy on healthsystemcio.com - Interviews & Webinars with Health System IT Leaders
Penn Medicine’s radiology department has spent nearly seven years building an AI governance process from the ground up, and the biggest lesson has nothing to do with algorithms. It’s about people: engaging stakeholders early, respecting their time, and recognizing that deploying AI in clinical settings demands a fundamentally different approach than rolling out traditional software. […]
Source: Penn Medicine’s Cook Says You Can’t ‘Set It and Forget It’ With Clinical AI on healthsystemcio.com - Interviews & Webinars with Health System IT Leaders
Nebraska Medicine has built and deployed 25 generative AI tools in-house, and its Chief Transformation and Digital Officer says the economics have changed enough that any health system willing to invest in a small data science team can do the same. The Omaha-based academic health system—once among the first to pilot ambient scribes and a […]
Source: Nebraska Medicine’s Hasselberg Says Foundation Models Have Leveled the Playing Field for Health System Innovation on healthsystemcio.com - Interviews & Webinars with Health System IT Leaders
A 25-bed critical access hospital in southern Colorado just made a bet that Oracle Health’s AI-native EHR will let it punch well above its weight. Mt. San Rafael Hospital and Clinics, based in Trinidad, Colo., signed with Oracle Health in December 2025 after evaluating Oracle, Epic, Meditech, and several other vendors for a new enterprise […]
Source: Mt. San Rafael Selects Oracle for EHR Platform; Archuleta Explains Why It’s the Right Move on healthsystemcio.com - Interviews & Webinars with Health System IT Leaders
Patient contact centers at health systems handle 40 to 50 times more calls per day than IT service desks/contact centers, yet many organizations still treat them as fixed operational costs with little room for strategic improvement. In this interview from the ViVE conference, part of our Partner Perspective series, CTG’s Joseph Esdale, Strategic Solutions Partner, […]
Source: CTG’s Esdale and Kochan say Patient Contact Centers are the Overlooked Frontier for AI Optimization on healthsystemcio.com - Interviews & Webinars with Health System IT Leaders
Charlie Harp, founder and CEO of Clinical Architecture, explains why healthcare’s data quality shortcomings pose the biggest threat to AI adoption across health systems. In an interview at the ViVE Conference, he describes how decades of clinical data collected as a byproduct of care delivery lacks the precision AI applications demand. Harp shares strategies for building data quality programs that deliver incremental, measurable results.
Source: Clinical Architecture’s Harp Says Data Quality Improvement is the Key to Unlocking AI’s Potential on healthsystemcio.com - Interviews & Webinars with Health System IT Leaders
Dawud Gordon, PhD, CEO and co-founder of Twosense, a Brooklyn-based cybersecurity startup, explains how behavioral biometrics can solve healthcare’s passwordless authentication challenge. In this episode of our Partner Perspective Interview Series recorded at the ViVE conference, Gordon describes why traditional tools like Windows Hello and passkeys fail in clinical environments with shared workstations, and how his company’s software learns to recognize users by typing and mouse patterns. He also shares a nuanced take on where generative AI helps and where it poses serious risk.
Source: Twosense’s Gordon Says Behavioral Biometrics Can Finally Crack Healthcare’s Shared Workstation Problem on healthsystemcio.com - Interviews & Webinars with Health System IT Leaders
Cincinnati Children’s has turned its complication conferences into an innovation pipeline, generating six provisional patents within months by adding one step to a process every hospital already runs: after reviewing what went wrong, ask what solution would have prevented it. Todd Ponsky, MD, chief innovation officer and professor of surgery at Cincinnati Children’s, launched the […]
Source: Cincinnati Children’s Ponsky Says Innovation Requires Leaders Who Understand the Upside of Failure on healthsystemcio.com - Interviews & Webinars with Health System IT Leaders
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