The role of the chief digital officer isn’t to augment the EHR, but rather, to maximize its use and find ways to leverage emerging technologies to improve the patient experience, said Nick Patel, MD,

In an increasingly interconnected mobile society, health systems are grappling with how to leverage resources to drive operational efficiencies for better patient outcomes.  As a result of telemedicin

“We’re realizing we can do a lot outside of these big buildings that cost millions of dollars,” said Nick Patel, CDO at Prisma Health. In this podcast, he talked about the “paradigm shift” happening i

Savvy IT executives know their success is dependent on clinician engagement, cooperation and support; which makes having an effective CMIO and CNIO absolutely critical. In this webinar, we'll hear abo

One of the most common mistakes organizations make when implementing EHRs is to provide training only at go-live, said Dan Nigrin, MD, CIO at MaineHealth, in a recent interview. “These systems are cha

For regulatory, clinical and business reasons, interoperability is at the top of every CIO's to-do list. Unfortunately, seamless data flow between vendor applications is difficult to achieve. In this

One of the many advantages of being a data-driven culture? The ability to leverage analytics to identify needs and prioritize investments to figure out "what meets needs and what doesn't," said CIO Ja

Si Luo, VP of Vocera Edge at Vocera, talks with healthsystemCIO's Anthony Guerra about the current state of care team collaboration, why he thinks there is a better way to handle such communications;

One of the most important steps CIOs and other leaders can take to improve clinician satisfaction? Provide education and ongoing support, says Dan Nigrin, MD, CIO at MaineHealth, in this podcast inter

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