Schneck’s Rice: Clinician Scoring, Independence Drove Meditech Expanse Pick Over Epic
In this episode, Schneck Medical Center CIO Craig Rice discusses the unique challenges of rural healthcare, especially tight margins and the need for disciplined technology investments. He explains how Schneck evaluated EMR options, ultimately choosing Meditech Expanse over Epic and Epic Community Connect due to higher stakeholder scores, a desire for independence, and the platform’s modern AI capabilities. Rice highlights the importance of short‑term contracts and measurable ROI when adopting new AI tools, and how the hospital’s strategic plan drove the transition from a legacy client‑server system to a cloud‑based solution.
On Grant & Archimedes
Anthony Guerra’s column draws leadership lessons from Ulysses S. Grant’s Civil‑War campaigns, emphasizing relentless perseverance and the strategic concentration of forces after Grant assumed unified command in 1864. Grant’s tenacity turned a series of failed “experiments” into the decisive Vicksburg siege, while...
H-ISAC’s Englert Says Device Inventory and PHI Mapping Will Be the Heaviest Lifts When New HIPAA Drops
In this episode, Phil Englert, VP of Medical Device Security at Health‑ISAC, explains how the upcoming HIPAA security rule revisions will force healthcare organizations to undertake massive device inventories and map protected health information (PHI) flows across medical devices and...
Forget the Search for a Single AI ROI Number, Say Akhter and Chou — Build Coalitions, Scale What Works
In this episode, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia’s SVP, Chief Digital and Information Officer Shaqib Octor and veteran health‑IT executive David Chow discuss how health systems are grappling with defining AI ROI. They argue that ROI isn’t just a dollar figure—it...
Healthcare Cyber Exercise Tops 300 Registrations as Operational Details Emerge
Operation Vital Signs, a national healthcare cybersecurity tabletop exercise organized by the HSCC Cybersecurity Working Group and Health‑ISAC, has attracted over 300 registrations since opening in May. The July 21‑22 event will simulate a sector‑wide cyber incident focused on trusted...
Providence’s Ratliff Says Merging Cybersecurity and Emergency Management Builds Stronger Cyber Resiliency
In this episode, Providence CISO Mike Ratliff discusses how merging cybersecurity with emergency management creates stronger cyber resiliency for a large, nonprofit health system. He explains the restructuring of Providence’s security teams, the launch of "Project Oscar" to align IT...
The Beauty of Iteration
Anthony Guerra argues that iteration and low‑risk experimentation are essential for health‑system IT leaders, using his team’s evolution of raw interview recordings into SEO‑optimized YouTube Shorts as a case study. He stresses that near‑miss failures provide the richest learning, especially...
The Rewards of Repetition
Anthony Guerra, founder of healthsystemCIO, argues that lasting operational excellence stems from tightly documented, repeatable workflows. He draws on Michael Gerber’s "E‑Myth" and the "small‑menu" concept from restaurant management to stress narrowing service scope for mastery. Guerra also highlights that...
University of Utah Health’s Kawamoto Says Workbench Approach Scales Clinical AI Across the Enterprise
Dr. Ken Kawamoto, University of Utah Health’s Chief Health AI Transformation Officer, discusses how his team is scaling clinical AI across the enterprise using a standards‑based AI Workbench that plugs into the Epic EHR. He explains the evolution of his...
WEDI Launches Interoperability Testing Directory
WEDI has launched a free, web‑based directory that matches payers, providers, and vendors seeking partners to test the CMS‑0057‑F APIs required for the January 1 2027 interoperability deadline. The service collects basic information—organization name, API versions, testing windows—and makes it publicly searchable,...
Mass General Brigham’s Sriraman Says SaaS Outages Expose Hidden Cloud Dependencies
In this episode of the Health System CIO Show, Mass General Brigham CTO Sri Sriraman discusses the hidden dependencies of SaaS applications on public cloud infrastructures, highlighting recent multi‑region outages that exposed a lack of transparency around where vendors host...
Federal Zero Trust Advisory Skips Healthcare — But Reads as a Hospital Medical Device Cybersecurity Roadmap
Federal agencies released a 28‑page zero‑trust advisory for operational technology that omits any reference to hospitals, patients, or medical devices. The guidance outlines four OT constraints—availability, legacy infrastructure, minimal logging, and cross‑functional workflows—that map directly onto the challenges of managing...
A Time for Metamorphosis
Anthony Guerra, founder of healthsystemCIO, recounts an 18‑month journey embedding AI into his personal and team workflows, highlighting the painstaking disassembly and reassembly required. He stresses that while individual workflow tweaks are hard, scaling AI across inter‑departmental processes in healthcare...
Center for Connected Medicine at UPMC Finds EHR Integration Gap Is Defining Hurdle for Precision Medicine Scale
The Center for Connected Medicine at UPMC, together with KLAS Research and the Institute for Precision Medicine, found that 75 % of U.S. health systems now have formal precision‑medicine programs, up from 31 % in 2020, and that deep EHR integration of...
KLAS Finds Provider-Payer Collaborations Focused on Value-Based Care Workflows
KLAS’s 2026 Points of Light report shows that nearly 80% of award‑winning provider‑payer collaborations now target value‑based care workflows, up from 48% in 2025. The shift signals that basic interoperability has become a baseline, with success measured by financial and...