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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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UF Health’s Richardville Says Need to Unburden Providers Elevates Soft ROI
5d ago00:42:42Tap 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
1w ago00:42:25Tap 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
2w ago00:38:40Tap 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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Build Is Back: Panelists Say AI Tools Are Reopening the Make-vs-Buy Equation
3w ago00:57:49Tap to summarizeJohn Halamka, MD, president of Mayo Clinic Platform, and Melek Somai, MD, VP and chief technology and product officer at Inception Health, examine why AI-assisted development is reopening the build option for new application requests. They weigh build against buying in-suite or niche, the integration tax that sinks third-party tools, and how abstraction layers and multi-cloud strategy help health systems avoid vendor and LLM lock-in.
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Resilience Is a Team Sport: McLaren’s Sam Jacques on Operation Vital Signs
3w ago00:43:05Tap to summarizeMost cyber plans assume your own defenses are the whole battle. McLaren’s Sam Jacques makes the case that survival now turns on how the entire sector moves together when a shared dependency suddenly fails. Source: Resilience Is a Team Sport: McLaren’s Sam Jacques on Operation Vital Signs on healthsystemcio.com - Interviews & Webinars with Health System IT Leaders
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Rady Children’s Fernando Says Operational Engagement Is the Key to Cyber Resilience
3w ago00:42:44Tap to summarizeSahan Fernando, CISO at Rady Children's Hospital-San Diego, explains why understanding hospital operations is the foundation of cyber resilience, covering clinician outreach, executive participation, the IT-operations divide, shadow IT, and downtime planning.
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Moffitt’s Lindsay-Wood Says Enterprise Imaging Consolidation Started With One Problem That Wouldn’t Scale
4w ago00:31:09Tap to summarizeBeth 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.
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AHA’s Riggi and Joint Commission’s Walders Say Cyber Resilience Needs a Single Accountable Executive
4w ago00:52:10Tap to summarizeJohn 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.
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Ochsner’s Hill on Building a Throughput Engine and the Epic Cosmos Stat That Surprised Him
4w ago00:50:37Tap to summarizeJason 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.
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Healthcare Attorney Oscislawski Says Epic, Health Gorilla Suit Shows Need for Tight IT-Legal Coordination
Jun 300:51:17Tap to summarizeHelen 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.
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