Health system IT leaders discuss why EHR downtime resilience demands organization-wide ownership, rehearsed response plans, and structured electronic documentation that preserves workflow consistency when systems go offline. Source: Health System CIOs Say EHR Downtime Resilience Requires Organization-Wide Ownership, Rehearsed Plans, and Structured Documentation on healthsystemcio.com - healthsystemCIO.com is the sole online-only publication dedicated to exclusively and comprehensively serving the information needs of healthcare CIOs.

Most CIOs are still focused on getting the EMR right. One health system has already moved past that and into spatial computing, with a practicing surgeon leading the charge. The path they followed holds lessons for everyone else. Source: Sharp HealthCare’s Korn Says Spatial Computing Gives Clinicians Superpowers, But Demands a Strong IT Foundation on healthsystemcio.com - healthsystemCIO.com is the sole online-only publication dedicated to exclusively and comprehensively serving the information needs of healthcare CIOs.

Most health systems think their EHR works fine because no one complains. Three physician-leaders explain why that silence is the real problem and how strategic governance and workflow rigor set the stage for AI that actually delivers. Source: Leaders Break Down Keys to EMR Optimization; Warn Unaddressed Friction Speeds Burnout on healthsystemcio.com - healthsystemCIO.com is the sole online-only publication dedicated to exclusively and comprehensively serving the information needs of healthcare CIOs.

When clinicians and IT leaders build together from the start, the results speak for themselves. Rush's Associate CMIO shares the partnership playbook behind a handoff tool adopted by 25 health systems and an AI chatbot built in two weekends. Source: Rush University Medical Center’s Rojas Explains How IT & Clinicians Can Truly Partner on healthsystemcio.com - healthsystemCIO.com is the sole online-only publication dedicated to exclusively and comprehensively serving the information needs of healthcare CIOs.

Keith Duemling explains why Catholic Health treats cybersecurity as a chronic condition requiring continuous management rather than an episodic fix. Managing cybersecurity at a health system is less like performing surgery and more like treating diabetes. That is the operating philosophy Keith Duemling, VP/CISO at Catholic Health, brought to his first year leading the security […] Source: Catholic Health’s Keith Duemling: Why Cybersecurity is a Chronic Condition, Not an Episode on healthsystemcio.com - healthsystemCIO.com is the sole online-only publication dedicated to exclusively and comprehensively serving the information needs of healthcare CIOs.

Christina Kochan, Healthcare Solution Architect at CTG, explains why organizing clinical informatics teams by service line instead of by application reveals workflow gaps that product-focused IT structures miss, and how value stream mapping can follow the patient across every handoff, system, and care setting to eliminate friction. Source: CTG’s Kochan Says Patient-Centric Workflow Mapping Exposes Gaps Product-Focused IT Teams Can Miss on healthsystemcio.com - healthsystemCIO.com is the sole online-only publication dedicated to exclusively and comprehensively serving the information needs of healthcare CIOs.

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 - healthsystemCIO.com is the sole online-only publication dedicated to exclusively and comprehensively serving the information needs of healthcare CIOs.

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 - healthsystemCIO.com is the sole online-only publication dedicated to exclusively and comprehensively serving the information needs of healthcare CIOs.

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 - healthsystemCIO.com is the sole online-only publication dedicated to exclusively and comprehensively serving the information needs of healthcare CIOs.