Episodes

For the 53rd episode of the CIO podcast hosted by Healthcare IT Today, we are joined by Ray Gensinger, MD, Former CIO who is now Sr. VP and CMO at Tegria. To kick off this episode Gensinger tells us what it was like to move from being a doctor to a CIO to CMO at Tegria and how those experiences and his interest in informatics shaped his role as a CIO. To expand on that, we take a look at the most successful project he achieved as a CIO and what led to that success. Next we dive into Gensinger’s ...

For the 52nd episode of the CIO podcast hosted by Healthcare IT Today, we are joined by our very special guest, Rob Carey, Former Deputy DOD CIO and Navy CIO, President of Cloudera Government Solutions as we dive this episode’s topic of government vs commercial healthcare and data management! Carey kicks off the episode by describing his move from being a government CIO to his current role as President at Cloudera. Then, he shares the main lessons he learned as a government CIO. Next, we take a ...

For the 51st episode of the CIO podcast hosted by Healthcare IT Today, we are joined by a very special guest: Tanya Townsend, Sr. Vice President and Chief Information Officer at LCMC Health! We first kick off the episode by getting to know Townsend a little better and discuss the biggest challenge she is currently facing as a CIO. Then, we move onto her work at LCMC Health and their recent achievement of stage 7 in the HIMSS Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model (EMRAM) at two of their hospit...

For the 50th episode of the CIO podcast hosted by Healthcare IT Today, we sat down with David T. Ford, VP of Health Information Technology at California Medical Association (CMA). With the big spring CMA Health IT Conference coming up on May 22nd, Ford kicks the episode off with sharing what he expects the hot topics to be. Next, we take a look specifically at the healthcare scene in California. Ford gives us insights into unique situations with health IT that people outside of California may no...

For the 49th episode of the CIO podcast hosted by Healthcare IT Today, we sat down with Joanne Mizell, Chief Operating Officer at Banner|Aetna to talk about Frictionless Billing, an initiative to improve the patient billing process. Mizell shares with us some of the financial and revenue pressures that healthcare organizations are facing today and her answer may surprise you. Plus, she shares how being a “payvider” (provider and payer) provides a great opportunity to address problems like the Fr...

For the 48th episode of the CIO podcast hosted by Healthcare IT Today, we sat down with Jason Swoboda, Director of Innovation at Tampa General Hospital to talk about Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM). First, Swoboda shares what he has been seeing at CES and his approach to RPM. Next we get into how to address the challenges that come with multiple RPM programs and integrations. Then, we discuss what we think the future of RPM looks like. We also take a look at the challenges with RPM programs toda...

For the 47th episode of the CIO podcast hosted by Healthcare IT Today, we sat down with Dr. Ami Bhatt, Chief Innovation Officer of the American College of Cardiology (ACC) to talk about her work in healthcare VR and innovation. First, we take a look at what the keys are to making a real difference with health tech innovation right now. Next, Bhatt shares the technologies that she is bearish and bullish on. Then, we examine the partnership between ACC and OssoVR (more details here). Additionally,...

Kenneth Reiher, VP Operations at ComplyAssistant once said “Many organizations have a difficult time tracking their vendor relationships, let alone their implemented security controls. I recommend a strong third-party management program to complete the following: Organize all vendor relationships and associated contacts, assign an inherent risk level to each vendor based on their access to your data, create and send an information security risk assessment to all of your inherently high-risk vend...

For the 45th episode of the CIO podcast hosted by Healthcare IT Today, we sat down with Skip Rollins, Chief Information Officer and Chief Information Security Officer at Freeman Health at the HCP Conference. This time we are diving into the world of IT in Healthcare and the impact it has. First, Rollins shares an old IT project he did and how it is still making a big impact today. Next, he shares a project he’s working on today and the impact it will have. We then get into the technology Rollins...

For the 44th episode of the CIO podcast hosted by Healthcare IT Today, we sat down with Dr. Jennifer Goldman, DO, Chief of Primary Care at Memorial Healthcare System. In this episode we’re discussing Dr. Goldman’s work in Social Determinants of Health (SDoH). First we dive into what she’s done to integrate SDoH data into the EMR and how she’s kept people from over looking it. Next we talk about how to help clinical teams connect patients to the resources that they need. Dr. Goldman shares some s...

For the 43rd episode of the CIO podcast hosted by Healthcare IT Today, we sat down with Henry Vynalek, Director of HIE & IT Operations at Ohio Health Information Partnership. This time we’re diving into the world of HIEs! We look at what the IT stack looks like for an HIE. Next we discuss the biggest challenges HIEs are facing. Vynalek then shares what interoperability challenge he wishes he could get rid of. We move onto health equity and discuss the work being done there. Additionally, we take...

For the 42nd episode of the CIO podcast hosted by Healthcare IT Today, we sat down with Donald McGruder, Chief Information and Revenue Integrity Officer at South Shore Hospital Chicago, at the HCP Conference. This time we’re diving into revenue cycle management (RCM). McGruder shares the topics and projects he’s keeping an eye out for. Then, we discuss his expanding risk surface when it comes to security. We take a look at the challenges that RCM is currently facing and how technology can help. ...

For the 41st episode of the CIO podcast hosted by Healthcare IT Today, we sat down with Dave Henderson, CIO at Millennium Health to talk about reducing drug overdoses. We dive into his work on creating the Emerging Threats Intelligence (ETI) Programs and how he got Involvement from the larger community. Next we take a look at the role of technology and data in the making of ETI Programs. Lastly, Henderson shares what other IT and data projects he’s keeping his eye on, and shares the best advice ...

For the 40th episode of the CIO podcast hosted by Healthcare IT Today, we sat down with Mark Weisman, MD, CIO at TidalHealth to talk about legacy applications and EHR data conversion. First, we dive into his move from CMIO to CIO and how that shift has gone for him. Then, we ask him about TidalHealth’s move from Cerner to Epic and the process he went through and lessons learned. Next, we discuss Weisman’s approach to moving legacy data and his keys to converting and decommissioning legacy system...

For the 39th episode of the CIO podcast hosted by Healthcare IT Today, we sat down with Linda Stevenson, CIO at Fisher-Titus Medical Center. In this episode we’re diving into the world of Telehealth and Linda Stevenson’s experience with implementing it at her rural health organization during the COVID rush and then their move to a more long term telehealth solution integrated with their Cerner EHR. Next, we take a look at how the virtual visits compare to the in-person visits and the ways Steven...

For the 38th episode of the CIO podcast hosted by Healthcare IT Today, we sat down with Rusty Yeager, Senior VP and CIO at Encompass Health. This time we’re taking a look into EHR strategies and their standardization on the Oracle Cerner solution. Yeager shares details on the rollout of the EHR and the value of having a standard EHR across the enterprise. We also ask Yeager about other technologies and projects he’s working on that are important to their current strategy. Next we discuss how Enc...

For the 37th episode of the CIO podcast hosted by Healthcare IT Today, we sat down with Patrick McGill, MD, EVP, Chief Transformation Officer at Community Health Network. McGill shares some of the exciting projects he’s worked on and what made those projects a success. We also ask him what technologies he’s watching but hasn’t implemented yet that he thinks will eventually be important to his organization. Finally, McGill shares his perspective on interoperability and some insights into what it ...

For the 36th episode of the CIO podcast hosted by Healthcare IT Today, we sat down with Kathy Azeez-Narain, Chief Digital Officer at Hoag. We dive into the current state of Digital Transformation in healthcare and examine how it’s progressing. She shares some lessons she’s learned from American Express about digital strategy. We then discuss how marketing plays into your digital strategy. Finally, we look into digital eco-systems to see what is needed for it to be comprehensive. Here’s a look a...

For the 35th episode of the CIO podcast hosted by Healthcare IT Today, we sat down with Ed Boze, Chief Innovation Officer at City of Paterson. While this is a bit of departure from our usual healthcare provider organization CIOs, we thought the work that Boze and his team at City of Paterson were doing along with a recent $1 million grant they got from Bloomberg for their work was worthy of inclusion in the CIO podcast. The opioid crisis is a challenge and it’s going to take the work of more tha...

For the 34th episode of the CIO podcast hosted by Healthcare IT Today, we sat down with Leanne Harvey, CIO of Harvard Medical Faculty Physicians at BIDMC. We dive into telehealth with Harvey to learn about where BIDMC is at 2 years post COVID. She shares some of the lessons learned. Plus, we ask her about whether telehealth has an impact on physician burnout. Finally, we ask her what’s the key to making telehealth successful going forward and what she sees on the horizon for telehealth. Here’s ...

For the 33rd episode of the CIO podcast hosted by Healthcare IT Today, we sat down with Steve Hess, CIO at UCHealth. In this episode we dive into the topic of healthcare AI. Hess shares whether he thinks AI is just a nice to have or whether it’s become a must have in healthcare. Plus, he shares some practical insights into how healthcare organizations should be thinking about and embracing AI and machine learning. He also shares some of the benefits of having an enterprise EHR where most of the ...

For the 32nd episode of the CIO podcast hosted by Healthcare IT Today, we sat down with Tom Selva, MD, CMIO at University of Missouri Health Care. In this discussion, we talk about Dr. Selva and his team winning the 2021 HIMSS Davies Award and what it meant to him and his organization. Plus, he shares the amazing three projects they submitted to win the award. Along with learning about these inspiring projects he also shares the importance of informatics and he discusses some of what it takes to...

For the 31st episode of the CIO podcast hosted by Healthcare IT Today, we sat down with Jesse Fasolo, Director, Technology Infrastructure & Cyber Security, Information Security Officer at St. Joseph’s Health. Fasolo provided a unique perspective since he’s the CISO at St. Joseph’s Health, but he also has responsibility for the infrastructure. That means he has responsibility for both the security plan and strategy and the execution of many parts of that plan. In this episode, we dive into his us...

For the 30th episode of the CIO podcast hosted by Healthcare IT Today, we sat down with David Chou, a popular Healthcare Executive who is a great follow on Twitter @dchou1107. In this episode, Chou shares his perspectives on digital transformation in healthcare including the top 3 things health IT organizations should be embracing as part of their digital transformation efforts. He also shares what we can learn from other industries and discusses what challenges CIOs face that aren’t getting tal...