healthsystemCIO – Strategies for Hospital IT Leaders

A health system’s 10-year path to implementing enterprise imaging reveals the operational complexity and strategic planning required to consolidate imaging platforms across clinical departments. UI Health, the University of Illinois Hospital Health Sciences System, recently contracted with AGFAHealthCare’s to implement an enterprise imaging platform after years of planning that began with early discussions in 2016. […] Source: UI Health’s Polikaitis Shares Strategies for Enterprise Imaging Success on healthsystemcio.com - Interviews & Webinars with Health System IT Leaders

Supercharged by AI, the pace of technology change is faster than ever, forcing IT leaders to make high-stakes decisions today without limiting their ability to respond to tomorrow’s challenges. In this webinar, a panel of experienced leaders will share strategies for building flexibility into architectures, contracts and governance so organizations retain the ability to adopt emerging tools while managing risk. Attendees will learn how to chart a clear course forward that leaves ample room for adjustment as technology, regulation and business needs evolve. Source: Strategies for Future-Proofing Your IT Shop on healthsystemcio.com - Interviews & Webinars with Health System IT Leaders

Beacon Health System has signed a comprehensive agreement with Oracle to implement the vendor’s next-generation AI-infused EHR platform, part of a broader partnership that includes analytics and enterprise resource planning systems. The deal positions the 10-hospital system as a beta partner for Oracle’s latest technology, including its ambulatory AI EHR slated for imminent release and […] Source: Johnston Explains Why Beacon is Betting Big on Oracle’s AI-Powered EHR on healthsystemcio.com - Interviews & Webinars with Health System IT Leaders

Healthcare organizations deploying AI agents must establish robust guardrails to prevent reputational and clinical harm, even when partnering with leading technology vendors, according to Spencer Dorn, MD, Vice Chair in the Department of Medicine and Lead Informatics Physician at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. A recent incident at Gap illustrated the stakes […] Source: UNC’s Dorn Cautions that AI Agents Need Guardrails to Manage Risk on healthsystemcio.com - Interviews & Webinars with Health System IT Leaders

Tampa General Hospital has implemented an AI-powered voice agent that now answers every incoming call to its health system, addressing a critical access problem that left tens of thousands of patients unable to reach the organization each month. The seven-hospital Florida health system was abandoning approximately 40,000 calls monthly before deploying the digital assistant, named […] Source: Tampa General’s Arnold Says Voice Agent Hitting Right Notes for Overwhelmed Call Center on healthsystemcio.com - Interviews & Webinars with Health System IT Leaders

Healthcare security leaders must rethink how they approach identity verification in an era where traditional perimeters have dissolved and counterfeit credentials are readily available on the dark web, according to Jason Taule, CISO at Luminis Health, a regional hospital system throughout the Mid-Atlantic. Identity verification has been fundamental to security since ancient civilizations stored valuables […] Source: Luminis Health’s Taule Says Identity Remains Healthcare’s Core Cyber Challenge on healthsystemcio.com - Interviews & Webinars with Health System IT Leaders

The most successful cybersecurity leaders in healthcare have shifted from acting as gatekeepers to becoming business enablers who help organizations achieve their goals securely. This transformation requires building deep relationships with leadership, understanding operational workflows, and balancing robust security controls with positive user experiences. Randall (Fritz) Frietzsche, Enterprise CISO at Denver Health, has spent nine […] Source: Cyber Success Depends on First Understanding, Then Empowering, Users on healthsystemcio.com - Interviews & Webinars with Health System IT Leaders

The 2025 CHIME Fall Forum, held in early November, brought together hundreds of the top IT executives to share what's working, what isn't, and what might be next in digital health. In this webinar, we'll speak to leaders who attended the form to learn their key takeaways and discover how exposure to so many new and diverse perspectives has either confirmed or changed their strategic thinking about the future. Source: Reflections on the CHIME Fall Forum: Key Takeaways to Decode the Future on healthsystemcio.com - Interviews & Webinars with Health System IT Leaders

AI-led policy redesign and a broader definition of return on investment are reshaping how Nirav Shah, MD, Associate CMIO, AI & Innovation, Endeavor Health, approaches digital transformation across the nine-hospital Chicago-area system. Endeavor Health, which operates roughly 300 sites of care and accounts for about one-third of Illinois’ population in its catchment area, built its […] Source: Gen AI & LLMs Facilitate Rebuilding Bodies of Data from Scratch; Says Endeavor Health’s Shah   on healthsystemcio.com - Interviews & Webinars with Health System IT Leaders

As health-system IT ecosystems grow more complex, leaders need a better understanding of which technologies they run, where each sits in its risk life cycle, and how assets map to the clinical and administrative workflows they support. It is with the attainment of this more continuous, end-to-end understanding that organizations can manage risk on an ongoing—not snapshot—basis. This work is essential, as effective business-continuity planning depends on anticipating when operations could be affected by outages or vulnerabilities. In this webinar, we’ll speak with leaders focused on sharpening IT inventories and dependency maps to keep care delivery up and running. Source: Strengthening Cyber Resilience with More Accurate IT Asset Data on healthsystemcio.com - Interviews & Webinars with Health System IT Leaders