“We Can’t Do It All At Once”: CIOs Kristin Seubold and Rick Leesmann On Laying a Solid Foundation For Innovation

Rick Leesmann of Sky Lakes Medical Center and Kristin Seubold of Skagit Regional Health have taken different paths to the CIO role, but they’ve arrived at the same conviction: sustainable innovation requires getting the fundamentals right first. There is a version of the CIO job that looks like a perpetual sprint toward the next technology […]

Inside Job: Michael Hasselberg On How Nebraska Medicine Is Flipping The Script With Innovation

For years, health systems have largely played the role of customer – waiting for vendors to provide a solution, then adapting their workflows to fit. Michael Hasselberg, Chief Transformation and Digital Officer at Nebraska Medicine, believes that model is outdated.  In fact, he believes that academic health systems now have everything they need to build […]

“It’s a Moment for Us”: CIO Christine Yang On Process Improvement, Mentoring, and A Safety-Net Organization’s Approach to AI

For CIOs, one of the most challenging – and increasingly difficult – aspects of the role is the ability to “perform and lead under pressure,” and establish a way forward, according to Christine Yang. Doing so has never been easy, but for safety net organizations like Alameda Health System that service a large percentage of […]

“Nursing Is Broken”: CNIOs Rebecca Freeman and Sherri Hess on How AI Can Help Fix It

“Most of us agree that nursing as a profession is pretty broken and we need to fix it.” It’s a bold statement, but one that’s certainly supported by statistics. According to a Health Affairs study, the total supply of registered nurses is dramatically decreasing as the need for care intensifies, and an alarming percentage of […]

How Jefferson Health’s SEAL Team Is Facilitating A More Proactive Approach To Nurse Staffing

More than three years ago, Jefferson Health launched an initiative to help fill vacant shifts while decreasing reliance on costly travel nurses. The idea, according to Andrew Thum (AVP, Nursing Operations), was to “leverage internal resources that could fill the demand.” Since then, the Philadelphia-based system has reduced its use of agency nurses by 75 […]

WittKieffer’s Zach Durst & Wendy Kerschner on How CNIOs Have Become The “Nursing Voice at the Leadership Table”

As the healthcare industry continues to evolve at a dizzying pace, leadership roles must keep pace, and the CNIO position is no exception. “The nature of the role is becoming more and more strategic,” said Wendy Kerschner, Senior Associate, Healthcare & Information Technology Practice, WittKieffer. “As we go from focusing mostly on the EHR to […]

Strategic “Sprints” and Growth Without Growing: Joey Sudomir On How CIOs Are Navigating The Second Technology Revolution

Healthcare organizations are experiencing exponential growth, and Texas Health Resources (THR) is no exception. The faith-based system – which provides care across 16 counties through 29 hospitals – is expanding, with plans for a new patient tower in Plano and a 12-story hospital in McKinney. And that’s just the physical footprint. The other major growth […]

"We Innovate to Solve Problems": Roberta Schwartz and Michelle Stansbury Discuss Houston Methodist’s Strategy

For Houston Methodist, the idea of designing a fully integrated smart hospital was extremely exciting. Not just for the facility itself, which is equipped with advanced AI, voice-activated smart rooms and other innovations, but also what it meant for the entire 9-hospital system. “We saw a unique opportunity to build a hospital from the ground […]

In The Genes: The Groundbreaking Precision Medicine Program That’s Bringing “Future” Care to the Present

The idea of leveraging genetic data in healthcare isn’t new. It’s been more than two decades since the human genome was first mapped, and there’s been no shortage of groundbreaking discoveries in the ensuing years. Everyday use, on the other hand, hasn’t quite made the leap – at least, not for most organizations. But at […]

Opening Day: Thomas Bentley On What It Actually Takes to Launch a State-of-the-Art Hospital

“You Have To Stay Focused”: CISO Zach Lewis on Surviving a LockBit Attack and Coming Back Stronger

Less “Magic,” More Augmentation: Three Experts Share Advice On Building AI Governance That Works

“This Is Not Easy”: MultiCare’s Laurie Wheeler On Pizza Trackers, Pebbles in the Shoe, and the Importance of Humility

“Innovation Is Deliberate”: Chero Goswami On Solid Frameworks, Disciplined AI, And The Return To Work

CISOs Jack Kufahl and Greg Garneau on Building a Cyber Legacy, Hiring for Curiosity and Ending the “Whack-a-Mole” Mentality

Sandboxes, Green Buttons and ChatEHR: How Stanford Health Care Pushed to ‘Tell The Patient’s Story’

The New ‘Hype’: How Stanford Children’s Is Operationalizing Transformation and Changing the IT ‘Cost Center’ Perception

“It’s Not Enough Just to Make AI Available”: CIO Shane Thielman on Scripps’ Methodological Approach to Driving Growth

CIO Deborah Muro Discusses the Huge Opportunity with Patient Engagement and How El Camino Is “Innovating and Transforming As We Grow”

CIO Sarah Hatchett Talks Prioritization, AI Learning, and How Cleveland Clinic Is “Winning By Being Strategic and Intentional”

CISO Anahi Santiago Talks Tabletop Exercises, Resiliency Committees, and Other Tips for Creating a Culture of Patient Safety

"We Need to Keep Our Feet On the Ground": Dr. Spencer Dorn Breaks Down The Pros and Cons of AI in Healthcare

“The Right Gates and Moats”: Sahan Fernando on the Never-Ending Battle CISOs Face

CMIO Matt Sullivan on Creating Systemness, the Right Way to Say No, and the Promise of Computer Vision

"Excited For Our Future": Chris Carmody on UPMC's Epic Transformation and the Keys to Developing Without Reinventing the Wheel