healthsystemCIO – Strategies for Hospital IT Leaders

The elevator has an internet connection. So does the HVAC unit and the hot-water sanitizer. Three healthcare CISOs explain why this expanding inventory now drives the field's biggest cyber risk and which control buys back the most time. Source: Cyber Leaders Warn OT Blind Spots May Hide Unacceptable Risk; Network Segmentation Key Countermeasure on healthsystemcio.com - Interviews & Webinars with Health System IT Leaders

TEFCA asks providers to trust every query arriving at their door. Some of those queries turned out to have litigation on the other end. Dayton Children's CIO explains why stronger controls are now table stakes, and what pediatrics adds. Source: Dayton Children’s Whitlock Says TEFCA Trust Model Needs Stronger Guardrails to Stop Data Misuse on healthsystemcio.com - Interviews & Webinars with Health System IT Leaders

Your analytics team keeps shipping work that misses the mark. UNC Health’s Rachini Moosavi says the fix starts well before the first line of code. Source: UNC Health’s Moosavi Says Analytics Teams Must Deeply Understand Requests Before Moving Forward; No Place for Ticket-Taking on healthsystemcio.com - Interviews & Webinars with Health System 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: Healthcare Data Leaders Say Legacy Platforms Can Stall AI Strategy 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 - 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