On the 10th Day of #HITChristmas … Shelli-Ann Jackson and ROI Healthcare...
Note: In case you missed the other 12 Days of #HITChristmas, you can start with the first day here along with the story behind #HITChristmas or read all 12 days here as they are published. On the 10th...
View ArticleOn the 11th Day of #HITChristmas … Nick T Adams and Care Thread
Note: In case you missed the other 12 Days of #HITChristmas, you can start with the first day here along with the story behind #HITChristmas or read all 12 days here as they are published. On the 11th...
View ArticleThree Tips for Better Healthcare Data Security
Major, well-publicized data breaches in a variety of industries have brought focus to the undeniable importance of data security. Nowhere is the need for better security practices more prevalent than...
View ArticleIs Cybersecurity A Priority In Healthcare?
The following is a guest blog post by Randy Gunther, SVP Operations and Portfolio Management at Atos. As HIMSS 2019 kicked off in February, I had the opportunity to discuss cybersecurity with two focus...
View ArticleLooking at the Future of Data Storage in Healthcare
This week I’m in Austin for the annual Pure Storage user and partner conference called Pure Accelerate. If you want to follow the event on Twitter, you can do so at the hashtag #PureAccelerate or just...
View ArticleWhat’s Keeping Hospitals and Health System CIOs Up At Night?
In part 2 of our series that looks at the challenges healthcare faces, we wanted to share the hospital and health system perspective. Similar to part 1 where we got responses from medical practices, I...
View Article7 Highlights from InterSystems Global Summit 2019
The InterSystems Global Summit provides developers and executives the knowledge they need to empower their businesses with data. The future of healthcare data will be led by companies and systems that...
View ArticleThird-Party Vendor Risk Management in Healthcare
One of the realities I’ve seen is that the healthcare CIO is largely a vendor manager. I’ve grown that view a bit to include the management of people, but that’s the majority of a CIO’s job. Manage the...
View Article17 Coronavirus (Covid-19) Actions for Healthcare CIOs
Hard to believe it was only 9 days ago that we first wrote about the coronavirus and Health IT (now more officially called Covid-19). Seems like much longer, but that could be due to HIMSS cancelling...
View ArticleFour Types of Healthcare IT Systems and Their Integration Challenges
At work, most of us rely on a grab-bag of computer systems. Certain environments are especially burdened with complex, diverse systems; the military comes to mind. Health care certainly falls into that...
View ArticleUse Cases and Project Plans are not Enough – A CIO’s guide to Failure Mode...
When many of us started in healthcare IT, it was before the days of pervasive Electronic Medical Records. The largest employer in Kansas City wasn’t Cerner. Paper ruled the day in hospitals. Data...
View ArticlePartner Breach? Steps to Protect Your Own Organization
The following is a guest blog post by Scott Ruthe, Chief Information Security Officer and Rick Fitzgerald, Chief Digital Officer at Ciox. As recently reported in the Wall Street Journal, cyber...
View ArticleAn Interview with Marc Probst on His Time at Intermountain and Move to ELLKAY
@If you’ve worked in health IT for any reasonable amount of time, you’ve no doubt heard of Marc Probst. Probst recently retired as CIO for Intermountain, has been on a number of health IT government...
View ArticleThe Difference Between HL7 and APIs: What CIOs Need to Know to Succeed with...
The 21st Century CURES Act Final Rule is a major change for healthcare data interchange. The reason being is because patients are now entitled to use Application Programming Interfaces to download...
View ArticleHealthcare Digital Transformation with Paddy Padmanabhan
One of the first healthcare books coming out during the pandemic is called Healthcare Digital Transformation: How Consumerism, Technology, and Pandemic are Accelerating the Future and is co-authored by...
View ArticleAI Gets The Buzz, But Health IT Leaders Still Focused On The Basics
New research from a consulting organization suggests that while new technologies beckon and COVID continues to disrupt operations, healthcare leaders remain focused on the problems they’ve struggled...
View ArticleOn the 3rd Day of #HITChristmas … Lee David Milligan, MD from Asante Health...
Note: In case you missed the other 12 Days of #HITChristmas, you can start with the first day here along with the story behind #HITChristmas or read all 12 days here as they are published. On the 3rd...
View ArticleLegacy Applications and SolarWinds – 4 Reasons Why CIOs Need to Move on from...
The SolarWinds attack was not only an attack on the Software Supply Chain. It also had secondary consequences. To illustrate this, we will use the example of Microsoft Active Directory, the...
View ArticleRespond, Reflect, and Rethink – A Remote Workforce Strategy
We recently held CIO roundtables with a wide variety of organizations to discuss their experiences to quickly shift their organizations to remote workforces, hosted by Dell Technologies and VMware....
View ArticleHealthcare Security Success Requires Engagement and Mutual Understanding of...
We all know that security attacks are at an all-time high. While there was some talk of hackers giving healthcare a break amidst COVID, it’s clear that hackers are calling fair game on healthcare...
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