healthsystemCIO – Strategies for Hospital IT Leaders
healthsystemCIO – Strategies for Hospital IT Leaders
Anthony Guerra | Veteran Healthcare IT Journalist
Panelists Agree: For Lean IT Teams, Vendor Alignment Is the Ambient AI Strategy
1 seconds Posted Sep 2, 2026 at 9:57 pm.
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Julie Demaree, VP, Chief Technology and Digital Innovation Officer at St. Mary's Healthcare, Corey Zeigler, CIO at Helio Health, and Carrie Weigand, MD, clinical advisor at Heidi Health, discuss how a lean IT department gets ambient AI into clinicians' hands. They cover buying at-the-elbow support instead of staffing it, the customization decisions that break vendor alignment, peer champions as the fastest training path, and who owns an AI model once it is live.