You're not really building a lot of the tech in most health systems. You're mostly buying and managing and maintaining. But the data piece is critical. I believe data governance is probably the biggest gap from best performing organizations to least performing organizations.

Aneesh Chopra, First CTO for the US

I think the first reduced revenue campaign is a smile and dial to your vendors. What can they do to decrease our spend by X? Next look at what systems could we archive or even turn off? Doing things like that is essential.

Charles Boicey, CTO

We're looking for things that stitch IT together. Digital enablement. How do we do that in the ambulatory and the acute space rather than being beholden to the Cerner's, Epics and Allscripts of the world? Because that’s our biggest spend, right? I'd be hard pressed to know any CIO who doesn't spend eight plus figures on their EHR provider.

William Walders, Health First