healthsystemCIO – Strategies for Hospital IT Leaders

Chuck Podesta, CIO, Renown Health; Roshan Hussain, SVP and Chief Data Analytics Officer, RWJBarnabas Health; and Sarang Deshpande, VP, Data and Analytics, Franciscan Alliance, discuss the data platform modernization required to support agentic AI in healthcare. The panelists cover Databricks and Snowflake migrations, the case for in-house development as Epic build cycles lengthen, and fast-track AI governance models that preserve speed without sacrificing ethics and security. Source: Renown, RWJBarnabas and Franciscan IT Leaders Detail the Data Foundation AI Demands on healthsystemcio.com - Interviews & Webinars with Health System IT Leaders

Providers want stricter gatekeeping on TEFCA, and the National Coordinator says changes are coming. What enforcement tools does a government-administered network actually bring to the table? Source: ONC’s Keane Says Government Will Strengthen TEFCA Onboarding to Address Provider Privacy Concerns on healthsystemcio.com - Interviews & Webinars with Health System IT Leaders

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 - healthsystemCIO.com is the sole online-only publication dedicated to exclusively and comprehensively serving the information needs of healthcare CIOs.

Health system IT leaders discuss why EHR downtime resilience demands organization-wide ownership, rehearsed response plans, and structured electronic documentation that preserves workflow consistency when systems go offline. Source: Health System CIOs Say EHR Downtime Resilience Requires Organization-Wide Ownership, Rehearsed Plans, and Structured Documentation on healthsystemcio.com - healthsystemCIO.com is the sole online-only publication dedicated to exclusively and comprehensively serving the information needs of healthcare CIOs.

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 - healthsystemCIO.com is the sole online-only publication dedicated to exclusively and comprehensively serving the information needs of healthcare CIOs.

Panel discussion on EMR optimization with Dr. Hannah Galvin, Dr. Ash Goel, and Dr. Marc Tobias. Source: EMR Optimization: Why Ambient AI Can’t Fix a Broken EHR on healthsystemcio.com - healthsystemCIO.com is the sole online-only publication dedicated to exclusively and comprehensively serving the information needs of healthcare CIOs.

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 - healthsystemCIO.com is the sole online-only publication dedicated to exclusively and comprehensively serving the information needs of healthcare CIOs.

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 program at the six-hospital integrated system on Long Island, New York. The distinction shapes everything from how he builds strategy […] Source: Catholic Health’s Duemling Says Cybersecurity Should Be Managed Like a Chronic Condition on healthsystemcio.com - healthsystemCIO.com is the sole online-only publication dedicated to exclusively and comprehensively serving the information needs of healthcare CIOs.

Healthcare organizations invest heavily in technology, yet workflow gaps persist when IT teams are organized around individual applications instead of patient journeys. In this “Live from HIMSS” episode of our Partner Perspective series, Christina Kochan, Healthcare Solution Architect at CTG, draws on 15 years of clinical informatics experience and a nursing background to explain why […] Source: CTG’s Kochan Says Patient-Centric Workflow Mapping Exposes Gaps Product-Focused IT Teams Can Miss on healthsystemcio.com - healthsystemCIO.com is the sole online-only publication dedicated to exclusively and comprehensively serving the information needs of healthcare CIOs.

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 review and accelerating the process of matching cancer patients to clinical trials. The platform, called HopeLLM, sits at the center of a broader AI […] Source: City of Hope’s Nazarian Says AI Governance Must Be Built Into the System on healthsystemcio.com - healthsystemCIO.com is the sole online-only publication dedicated to exclusively and comprehensively serving the information needs of healthcare CIOs.

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 - healthsystemCIO.com is the sole online-only publication dedicated to exclusively and comprehensively serving the information needs of healthcare CIOs.

A 130-bed independent hospital in Amsterdam, New York, earned a Leapfrog A safety grade by tackling one of the most daunting challenges in clinical IT: getting medication alerts right. St. Mary’s Healthcare, a rural safety net hospital where roughly 70% of patients are covered by Medicare or Medicaid, had long delivered strong clinical care, but […] Source: St. Mary’s Demaree Says Small Rural Hospitals Can Achieve Top Safety Grades Without Big Budgets on healthsystemcio.com - healthsystemCIO.com is the sole online-only publication dedicated to exclusively and comprehensively serving the information needs of healthcare CIOs.

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 - healthsystemCIO.com is the sole online-only publication dedicated to exclusively and comprehensively serving the information needs of healthcare CIOs.

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 - healthsystemCIO.com is the sole online-only publication dedicated to exclusively and comprehensively serving the information needs of healthcare CIOs.

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 - healthsystemCIO.com is the sole online-only publication dedicated to exclusively and comprehensively serving the information needs of healthcare CIOs.

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 - healthsystemCIO.com is the sole online-only publication dedicated to exclusively and comprehensively serving the information needs of healthcare CIOs.

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 - healthsystemCIO.com is the sole online-only publication dedicated to exclusively and comprehensively serving the information needs of healthcare CIOs.

Patient contact centers at health systems handle 40 to 50 times more calls per day than IT service desks, yet many organizations still treat them as fixed operational costs with little room for strategic improvement. In this episode of our Partner Perspective series, recorded live at the ViVE Conference, CTG’s Joseph Esdale, strategic solutions partner, […] Source: CTG’s Esdale & Kochan Say Conversational AI Redefining Tomorrow’s Help Desk on healthsystemcio.com - healthsystemCIO.com is the sole online-only publication dedicated to exclusively and comprehensively serving the information needs of healthcare CIOs.

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 - healthsystemCIO.com is the sole online-only publication dedicated to exclusively and comprehensively serving the information needs of healthcare CIOs.