healthsystemCIO – Strategies for Hospital IT Leaders

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Candid journalism and leadership insights for the modern Hospital CIO. healthsystemCIO is the definitive resource for Health System executives navigating Cybersecurity, AI Governance, and Digital Transformation. Hosted by Anthony Guerra, a veteran Healthcare IT Journalist.

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June 9, 202631 min

Moffitt’s Lindsay-Wood Says Enterprise Imaging Consolidation Started With One Problem That Wouldn’t Scale

Beth Lindsay-Wood, Chief Informatics and Technology Officer at Moffitt Cancer Center, explains how a breast imaging system that would not scale set off a three-year enterprise imaging consolidation onto one cloud-based platform. She covers how imaging problems surface, getting IT close to operations, governance at the EVP level, streamlining intake as AI floods the request pipeline, and why clean, well-owned data is the foundation for everything that follows.

June 8, 202652 min

AHA’s Riggi and Joint Commission’s Walders Say Cyber Resilience Needs a Single Accountable Executive

John Riggi of the American Hospital Association and William Walders of The Joint Commission explain why cyber resilience depends on a single accountable executive, board-level priority, and treating clinical continuity as the mission. They walk through the new Cyber Resilience Readiness program and a 30-day planning benchmark drawn from hundreds of real attacks.

June 6, 202650 min

Ochsner’s Hill on Building a Throughput Engine and the Epic Cosmos Stat That Surprised Him

Jason Hill, MD, of Ochsner Health explains how the system treats patient throughput as an end-to-end process, why front-end access matters as much as length of stay, the CMIO-CIO dyad, and how Epic's Cosmos Median Length of Stay tool predicts stays accurately at admission.

June 3, 202651 min

Healthcare Attorney Oscislawski Says Epic, Health Gorilla Suit Shows Need for Tight IT-Legal Coordination

Helen Oscislawski, Esq., of Attorneys at Oscislawski LLC, explains what the Epic, Health Gorilla lawsuit means for health system CIOs, why a contract breach differs from an unlawful disclosure, why TEFCA participation remains voluntary, and how to coordinate breach-notification decisions across legal, compliance, and IT.

June 3, 20261 hr 0 min

Health System Cyber Leaders Warn AI Visibility Must Come Before Governance

CISOs Anahi Santiago of ChristianaCare, Krista Arndt of St. Luke’s University Health Network, and Antonio Davis of Northeast Georgia Health System, join Robert Butler from Netskope and healthsystemCIO's Anthony Guerra to examine how to secure AI as it spreads through health systems via shadow tools and vendor upgrades. They argue that visibility, not blocking, lets security permit AI responsibly — pairing governance and guardrails with a culture that coaches users toward sanctioned tools rather than simply saying no.

June 2, 202649 min

WVU Medicine’s Romero Says Frontier AI’s HIPAA Door Is Out of Reach for Most Health Systems

Ilo Romero, CHCIO, VP and associate CIO at WVU Medicine, explains why HIPAA-compliant frontier AI access now carries a seven-figure entry point, how his model-agnostic platform routes workloads across in-house GPUs and cloud endpoints, and why owning the integration layer beats betting on any single model.

June 1, 202643 min

Heidi Health’s Kos Says Shadow AI Signals a Tool Gap CIOs Can’t Ignore

Most leaders treat unsanctioned AI use as a compliance headache to stamp out. Heidi Health’s Simon Kos sees a free market signal hiding in plain sight, one that points straight to the tools your clinicians actually need. Source: Heidi Health’s Kos Says Shadow AI Signals a Tool Gap CIOs Can’t Ignore on healthsystemcio.com - Interviews & Webinars with Health System IT Leaders

May 28, 202641 min

Schneck’s Rice: Clinician Scoring, Independence Drove Meditech Expanse Pick Over Epic

Most EHR selection stories center on platform features. At one rural Indiana hospital, the deciding signals came from outside the platform demos themselves, and from the sponsor relationships that came with one option. Source: Schneck’s Rice: Clinician Scoring, Independence Drove Meditech Expanse Pick Over Epic on healthsystemcio.com - Interviews & Webinars with Health System IT Leaders

May 22, 202657 min

Patient Throughput Improvement Demands Operational Clarity Before Technology

Most patient throughput tools underperform because health systems deploy them too early. A panel of healthcare IT leaders explain the operational disciplines that have to be in place first, and why skipping them costs months of progress. Source: Patient Throughput Improvement Demands Operational Clarity Before Technology on healthsystemcio.com - Interviews & Webinars with Health System IT Leaders

May 21, 202635 min

Cincinnati Children’s Towbin Says Imaging Is 90% of Medical Data, CIOs Must Lean In

Most CIOs treat enterprise imaging as a back-burner project. Cincinnati Children’s Towbin lays out the math that changes the conversation, with 90% of healthcare data, 80% workflow gains, and the right champion all in play. Source: Cincinnati Children’s Towbin Says Imaging Is 90% of Medical Data, CIOs Must Lean In on healthsystemcio.com - Interviews & Webinars with Health System IT Leaders

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