What If You Could Hear What CIOs Really Say When You're Not in the Room?

You've read the analyst reports. You've seen the surveys. But through 20+ executive summits, 40+ City Tour dinners, and hundreds of candid conversations, we've captured what's really keeping CIOs up at night in 2025—the raw, unfiltered truth they don't tell vendors.

Here's what we're seeing: CIOs are being crushed between impossible demands. Boards want AI yesterday. CFOs are cutting budgets. Physicians want zero-training technology. Security teams are in crisis mode. And the infrastructure holding it all together? Often barely keeping up.

Your prospects are drowning in priorities, and most vendor messages are making it worse.

The partners winning right now? They stopped selling solutions and started solving the actual problem: the tension between innovation and operational survival.

This Briefing Reveals

• The 8 topics dominating every CIO conversation (AI is #1, but #2-8 will surprise you)
• Why "do more with less" isn't temporary—it's the new permanent reality
• The exact language CIOs use when discussing their challenges (steal it for your messaging)
• Which pain points are budget-approved urgent vs. "someday maybe"
• Real examples of what's working (and what's failing) across health systems
• How to position your solution within the innovation vs. operations battle

Your Expert Panel

• Bill Russell | Host & Co-Founder, This Week Health Bill moderates every Summit and City Tour conversation, giving him unparalleled access to what CIOs actually say when cameras are off and contracts aren't being pitched.
• Sarah Richardson | Principal, This Week Health & The 229 Project Sarah translates frontline CIO insights into actionable partner strategy. She knows what resonates with IT leaders—and what gets ignored.
• Drex DeFord | Principal, Cyber & Risk, This Week Health & 229 Project Drex spent decades as a healthcare CIO before joining This Week Health. He's lived the pressures your prospects face and knows exactly how they evaluate solutions.

Who This Is For

• Marketing leaders who need message-market fit.
• Sales teams tired of hearing "not now, maybe next year."
• Product teams validating roadmap against real market needs.
• Executive sponsors wondering why pipeline conversion feels harder.
• If you're a This Week Health partner, this intelligence will transform how you show up in 2025.

What You'll Receive

• State of the Healthcare CIO 2025 Report

The Hard Truth

Most healthcare technology partners are positioning themselves as one more thing CIOs need to figure out. The smart ones position themselves as helping CIOs navigate the chaos.

One approach gets ghosted. The other gets meetings.

This briefing shows you which is which—and how to be the latter.

December 3rd | 1 PM ET / 10 AM PT

Register Now | Limited to This Week Health Partners

Questions? Contact Holly Russell at holly.russell@thisweekhealth.com

Your competitors are guessing what CIOs care about. You're about to know.