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healthsystemCIO – Strategies for Hospital IT Leaders
Hosted by Anthony Guerra | Veteran Healthcare IT Journalist · EN
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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Providence Onboards Epic AI Tools in Project Pixel; Smitherman Says Some Stay on the Watch List
2d ago00:44:19Tap to summarizeJ. Scott Smitherman, MD, MBA, VP/CMIO at Providence, walks through Project Pixel, the internal effort to evaluate Epic’s AI portfolio. He covers the safety standard and time-savings test every release must pass, why fully loaded cost governs both native and third-party requests, how service-line governance works across 50-plus hospitals, and why clinicians deserve to hear what their request would displace.
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U of Iowa Health Care’s Blum Says Epic’s Growing ERP Suite Promises to Deliver What Bolted-On Tools Can’t
2w ago00:39:09Tap to summarizeJim Blum, MD, CHIO at University of Iowa Health Care, explains why deep integration with the clinical record led his team to adopt Epic's EpicOps Teamwork scheduling module as an early adopter, how a single source of truth advanced patient safety, and why aligning ERP and clinical data could reshape total-cost-of-care analytics.
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Application Rationalization Is Necessary Work, but Sometimes the Juice Isn’t Worth the Squeeze, Panelists Say
2w ago00:56:44Tap to summarizeZafar Chaudry, MD, former Chief Digital Officer at Seattle Children's, and Adar Palis, SVP of Clinical & Revenue Cycle Applications at Providence, examine why health systems struggle to retire the applications they no longer need. They explain why usage counts mislead, how legacy tools widen the cybersecurity attack surface, and why a 20% reduction target often ends the fiscal year closer to 5%.
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Sentara’s Becker: Business Acceleration Workshops Break Down Clinical, Rev Cycle Silos
2w ago00:43:39Tap to summarizeShannon Becker, VP of IT, Clinical & Revenue Cycle Systems at Sentara Health, explains how business acceleration workshops bring application teams back to the frontline, sort friction into quick fixes and systemic redesigns, and break down silos across business lines.
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H-ISAC’s Weiss Says Healthcare Cybersecurity Always Comes Back to People
3w ago00:41:22Tap to summarizeErrol Weiss, Chief Security Officer at Health-ISAC, discusses threat intelligence, attack-surface reduction and network segmentation, the budget squeeze facing healthcare CISOs, the HICP and HHS Cybersecurity Performance Goals frameworks, third-party and concentration risk, and governing agentic AI as an identity, returning throughout to the people and resources that determine whether a health system can defend itself.
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University of Iowa’s Singh Says the Cloud Lets Imaging Scale to Meet Surging Workloads
3w ago00:44:08Tap to summarizeRamandeep Singh, MD, Associate Chief Health Information Officer and Director of Imaging Informatics at University of Iowa Health Care, breaks down the radiologist shortage equilibrium and the workforce, volume, and reimbursement trends driving it. He details a four-pillar governance model, the scalability case for cloud PACS, an on-prem backup strategy for business continuity, and how his team went live on PACS and dictation in five to six months.
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Jefferson’s Mallozzi Says Nurses Should Co-Develop the ‘Why’ Before Implementing Ambient AI
4w ago00:35:35Tap to summarizeColleen Mallozzi, MBA, RN, SVP and Chief Nursing Informatics Officer at Jefferson Health, explains why ambient AI documentation succeeds only when nurses help build the rationale, why newer nurses hesitate more than seasoned ones, and how the health system keeps its Abridge and Microsoft Dragon pilots flexible while the nursing ambient market matures.
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UF Health’s Richardville Says Need to Unburden Providers Elevates Soft ROI
Jun 3000:42:42Tap to summarizeCraig Richardville, SVP and Chief Digital and Information Officer at UF Health, explains why soft ROI now rivals hard return, how multi-lens governance gates technology spending, and why bringing shadow AI work into a documented sandbox beats blocking it.
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Cyber Resilience Is an Organization-Wide Discipline, Michigan Health’s Sieg Says
Jun 2600:42:25Tap to summarizeYour downtime plan says go to paper. But what if no one on the floor has ever charted that way, and the warehouse ran dry years ago? A CISO explains what resilience really takes. Source: Cyber Resilience Is an Organization-Wide Discipline, Michigan Health’s Sieg Says on healthsystemcio.com - Interviews & Webinars with Health System IT Leaders
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WVU Medicine’s Dilcher Says Token Costs Are the New Governance Challenge in Epic’s Agent Factory
Jun 2300:38:40Tap to summarizeBrian Dilcher, MD, Associate CMIO and Director of Emergency Medicine Clinical Informatics at WVU Medicine, breaks down what he saw at Epic's Agent Factory build-a-thon: token costs that vary wildly between builders, governance that has to run continuously, and the data discipline that keeps fixed-field tools from pulling the wrong information.
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