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…
As post-pandemic work arrangements continue to evolve, IT executives are left to navigate how best to keep their teams in touch and on track. It’s not an easy balance, as organizations seek to retain…
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 …
Now that it has been more than a decade since the initial push to establish EMRs through the federal Meaningful Use program, healthcare organizations are beginning to face something just as …
Though the cloud may be a key element to empowering today’s work-from-anywhere workforce, there are many aspects of it that concern security professionals. Questions abound around the security implic…
While most health systems have an effective process for training newly hired clinicians on the applications they will be using, few have one for training existing employees on upgrades to those appli…
There’s no shortage of scenarios that can conjure fear in even the most seasoned leaders. For Kate Pierce, it’s a cyberattack that causes North Country Hospital to go offline. Not because it would me…
With power (and lots of data) comes responsibility. And it’s the responsibility of health systems to make sure patient records aren’t accessed when they’re not supposed to be. In this important webin…
Think the voice channel is declining? Think again. Despite major health system investments in omni-channel communication and healthcare portals; patients, family members, doctors and vendors continue…
Digital transformation is causing an explosion of hyper-connected IT, IoT and IoMT devices and, with it, a greatly expanded cyber-attack surface. In such an environment, how can organizations begin t…
MedStar Health does things a little bit differently. In addition to the chief information officer — a role Scott MacLean has held since 2018 — the 10-hospital system also has a chief innovation offic…
There’s perhaps no better preparation for becoming a healthcare CEO than having spent time both in the CIO and COO roles, according to Suresh Gunasekaran, who recently took the helm at UCSF Health.
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CISOs know they can’t plug all the holes in their security environment, especially when it comes to IoMT. However, just like when tackling any to-do list, they can prioritize, directing resources to …
Steve Crocker, CISO at Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare, says after receiving a full briefing from IT security, business leaders should make the final decision on how much risk they want to accept.
For healthcare IT leaders, ensuring teams are engaged and feel connected to mission is becoming increasingly critical. “It’s always been important for me to make sure I can translate for my teams how…
There’s a confluence of challenging factors facing health systems today when it comes to retaining cyber professionals. First, there’s not enough of them to fill open requirements. Then, there’s dail…
MedStar Health does things a little bit differently. In addition to the chief information officer — a role Scott MacLean has held since 2018 — the 10-hospital system also has a chief innovation offic…
By nature, Tracy Elmer has always been an inquisitive person. “I’m always in discovery mode,” she said during an interview with Kate Gamble, Managing Editor at healthsystemCIO.com. In fact, when she’…
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