healthsystemCIO – Strategies for Hospital IT Leaders

Simon Nazarian explains why City of Hope builds AI governance into the technical foundation to move beyond pilots and ensure safe, scaled clinical care. City of Hope has built a proprietary generative AI platform that converts thousands of pages of patient medical records into actionable clinical summaries in seconds, saving physicians hours of after-hours chart […] Source: City of Hope’s Nazarian Says AI Governance Must Be Built Into the System on healthsystemcio.com - Interviews & Webinars with Health System IT Leaders

Nurses at HCA Healthcare carry more than 100,000 smartphones on the job every day, part of a decade-long mobile strategy that has fundamentally reshaped how the nation’s largest for-profit health system delivers bedside care. One of the architects of that clinical technology strategy, Sherri Hess, VP/CNIO, says the devices are only as valuable as the […] Source: HCA’s Hess Says Key to Supporting Clinicians and Patients is Staying Connected on healthsystemcio.com - Interviews & Webinars with Health System IT Leaders

Julie Demaree explains how St. Mary’s Healthcare optimized medication alerts and clinician rounding to earn a solid Leapfrog safety grade on a rural budget. A 130-bed independent hospital in Amsterdam, New York, earned a Leapfrog B safety grade by tackling one of the most daunting challenges in clinical IT: getting medication alerts right. St. Mary’s […] Source: St. Mary’s Demaree Says Small Rural Hospitals Can Achieve Top Safety Grades Without Big Budgets on healthsystemcio.com - Interviews & Webinars with Health System IT Leaders

Epic is working with a North Dakota health system to build a streamlined implementation model for smaller organizations, a move that could reshape how community hospitals and regional systems access the company’s platform. The collaboration grew out of an unlikely proving ground: a simultaneous Epic and Workday go-live at Trinity Health in Minot, N.D., where […] Source: Trinity Health’s McDaniel Says Epic Considering New Implementation Protocol for Smaller Health Systems; 3rd-Party Pre-Bundling on the Table on healthsystemcio.com - Interviews & Webinars with Health System IT Leaders

Hospitals will only adopt AI as fast as their least-prepared workers can absorb it: that’s the operating principle behind the AI strategy at one of Ireland’s largest academic medical centers. Dr. Guido Giunti, chief data officer at St. James’s Hospital Dublin, is building his entire digital transformation around a literacy-first model, investing in education and […] Source: St. James Hospital Dublin’s Giunti Says AI Transformation Starts With Literacy on healthsystemcio.com - Interviews & Webinars with Health System IT Leaders

Penn Medicine’s radiology department has spent nearly seven years building an AI governance process from the ground up, and the biggest lesson has nothing to do with algorithms. It’s about people: engaging stakeholders early, respecting their time, and recognizing that deploying AI in clinical settings demands a fundamentally different approach than rolling out traditional software. […] Source: Penn Medicine’s Cook Says You Can’t ‘Set It and Forget It’ With Clinical AI on healthsystemcio.com - Interviews & Webinars with Health System IT Leaders

Nebraska Medicine has built and deployed 25 generative AI tools in-house, and its Chief Transformation and Digital Officer says the economics have changed enough that any health system willing to invest in a small data science team can do the same. The Omaha-based academic health system—once among the first to pilot ambient scribes and a […] Source: Nebraska Medicine’s Hasselberg Says Foundation Models Have Leveled the Playing Field for Health System Innovation on healthsystemcio.com - Interviews & Webinars with Health System IT Leaders

A 25-bed critical access hospital in southern Colorado just made a bet that Oracle Health’s AI-native EHR will let it punch well above its weight. Mt. San Rafael Hospital and Clinics, based in Trinidad, Colo., signed with Oracle Health in December 2025 after evaluating Oracle, Epic, Meditech, and several other vendors for a new enterprise […] Source: Mt. San Rafael Selects Oracle for EHR Platform; Archuleta Explains Why It’s the Right Move     on healthsystemcio.com - Interviews & Webinars with Health System IT Leaders

Patient contact centers at health systems handle 40 to 50 times more calls per day than IT service desks/contact centers, yet many organizations still treat them as fixed operational costs with little room for strategic improvement. In this interview from the ViVE conference, part of our Partner Perspective series, CTG’s Joseph Esdale, Strategic Solutions Partner, […] Source: CTG’s Esdale and Kochan say Patient Contact Centers are the Overlooked Frontier for AI Optimization on healthsystemcio.com - Interviews & Webinars with Health System IT Leaders

Charlie Harp, founder and CEO of Clinical Architecture, explains why healthcare’s data quality shortcomings pose the biggest threat to AI adoption across health systems. In an interview at the ViVE Conference, he describes how decades of clinical data collected as a byproduct of care delivery lacks the precision AI applications demand. Harp shares strategies for building data quality programs that deliver incremental, measurable results. Source: Clinical Architecture’s Harp Says Data Quality Improvement is the Key to Unlocking AI’s Potential on healthsystemcio.com - Interviews & Webinars with Health System IT Leaders