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Q&A with Baptist Health CAO Stacey Johnston, Part 2: “I’m Trying to Make It as Easy as Possible.”

Of the many components needed to ensure a successful EHR implementation, one of the most important — and least recognized — is grace, according to Stacey Johnston, MD. As Chief Applications Officer a…

00:11:54 | Mon 05 Sep 2022

Q&A with Health First VP, CISO & CTO Michael Carr: “We Must Make Sure the Business Understands the Risks it is Accepting”

The ultimate challenge for a CISO is to get all of an enterprise’s stakeholders to recognize that IT is not just in the security game to protect the data, it has the organization’s bottom li…

00:31:52 | Tue 30 Aug 2022

Ensuring Your Security Program Can Support the Industry’s Increasing PHI Sharing Demands

Both consumer desires and regulatory mandates are requiring health systems to share more PHI with more entities than ever before. While such sharing can go a long way to improving outcomes and patien…

00:54:20 | Thu 25 Aug 2022

Q&A with HSS CIO Jamie Nelson, Part 1: “We Can’t Let Digital Fall Behind.”

During the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic, the streets of New York City were deserted — even in the middle of the day. Organizations like the Hospital for Special Surgery were forced to pause al…

00:11:02 | Tue 23 Aug 2022

Q&A with CIO Rich Rogers, Part 2: “Find what motivates individuals and get them involved.”

With any major decision, having the right representation is critical – even when the decision seems like an obvious one, said Rich Rogers, CIO at Prisma Health, in this interview. “You have to make s…

00:09:40 | Thu 18 Aug 2022

Q&A with Main Line Health CISO Aaron Weismann: “CISO Success Depends on Organizational Risk Alignment”

The first and most important question for CISOs to ask is, “Am I risk aligned with the place where I work?” If not, they might be swimming upstream as they promote a culture of security that…

00:30:38 | Mon 15 Aug 2022

Q&A with Stacey Johnston, Part 1: “We have to help each other cross the finish line.”

Of the many components needed to ensure a successful EHR implementation, one of the most important — and least recognized — is grace, according to Stacey Johnston, MD. As Chief Applications Officer a…

00:11:54 | Wed 10 Aug 2022

Successfully Leading Application Portfolio Rationalization Initiatives

More than ever, healthcare IT executives are expected to take costs out of their organizations. One of the main ways they can do so is by rationalizing their application portfolios and sunsetting too…

00:58:21 | Tue 09 Aug 2022

Q&A with Hospital Sisters CIO Ray Gensinger, MD, Part 2: “If you’re talking, you’re not learning.”

Perhaps no industry has been hit harder by the great resignation than healthcare. And if qualified technology and clinical people aren’t quitting altogether, they’re being lured elsewhere by bigger p…

00:11:35 | Thu 04 Aug 2022

Q&A with CIO Rich Rogers, Part 1: “It Really Comes Down to Governance.”

With any major decision, having the right representation is critical – even when the decision seems like an obvious one, said Rich Rogers, CIO at Prisma Health, in this interview. “You have to make s…

00:11:32 | Thu 28 Jul 2022

Strategies for Improving Data Quality in Your Health System

The promise of leveraging data to improve care will never be realized as long as its quality is suspect. So how can CIOs and other IT executives — who have little to do with data entry — bring about …

00:59:16 | Thu 21 Jul 2022

Q&A with Jason Buchanan, Part 2: “We Changed Our Model of Care Overnight.”

A decade or two after the majority of health systems took the EHR plunge, it’s still far from perfect, and the complaints still seem to pile up. But as those who have spent time in both the pre- and …

00:11:01 | Wed 20 Jul 2022

Keys to Running an Effective IT Shop

Running an effective IT shop means doing a lot of things right. First off, you must have a sound governance system to ensure the right work is being taken on, then you must have an effective team (an…

00:55:22 | Wed 20 Jul 2022

Securing the Expanded Attack Surface Created by a Remote Workforce

The best security professionals have always focused on empowering rather than restricting. However, securing today’s work-from-anywhere workforce is putting that noble goal to the test. That’s becaus…

00:57:14 | Thu 14 Jul 2022

Q&A with Hospital Sisters Health System CIO Ray Gensinger, Part 1: “Take It One Step at a Time.”

Perhaps no industry has been hit harder by the great resignation than healthcare. And if qualified technology and clinical people aren’t quitting altogether, they’re being lured elsewhere by bigger p…

00:14:25 | Wed 13 Jul 2022

Best Practices for Securing Third-Party Managed Devices

Unlike unmanaged medical devices — which are known to harbor risk for healthcare delivery organizations (HDOs) — many HDOs seem willing to trust in their vendors and accept the risk of third-party ma…

00:56:32 | Thu 07 Jul 2022

Q&A with Jason Buchanan, Part 1: “We don’t know all that the EHR has to hold.”

A decade or two after the majority of health systems took the EHR plunge, it’s still far from perfect, and the complaints still seem to pile up. But as those who have spent time in both the pre- and …

00:12:35 | Thu 07 Jul 2022

Q&A with Laura Marquez, Part 2: “Culture Change Is Hard, But We All Play a Part.”

For healthcare leaders, creating a culture of collaboration can be extremely challenging, particularly in groups that include both extroverts and introverts. Laura Marquez has a solution that involve…

00:16:20 | Thu 30 Jun 2022

Q&A with CIO Dustin Hufford, Part 2: How Engagement, Flexibility & Transparency Can Help Retain Talent

When Dustin Hufford was named full-time CIO at Cooper University Health Care — after serving as AVP of IT applications and interim CIO — he was ready to hit the ground running. “If I get this, we’re …

00:09:22 | Tue 21 Jun 2022

Q&A with Laura Marquez, Part 1: “Having the voice of the consumer is so important.”