CIO Podcast by Healthcare IT Today

For the 72nd episode of the CIO podcast hosted by Healthcare IT Today, we are joined by Donald McGruder, Chief Information and Revenue Integrity Officer at South Shore Hospital. We kick off this episode by discussing how South Shore Hospital is positioning itself in the rapidly evolving landscape of healthcare interoperability. Next, we discuss how interoperability influences the h

For the 71st episode of the CIO podcast hosted by Healthcare IT Today, we are joined by Richard Clark, PhD, Senior Vice President and Chief Analytics Officer at Highmark Health to discuss data, analytics, and AI! To kick off this episode, we discuss Clark's double role working for a payer and provider and how that has allowed him to do things that would otherwise be difficult if he

For the 70th episode of the CIO podcast hosted by Healthcare IT Today, we are talking to Donald Levick, MD, MBA, CPE, FAAP, FHIMSS, Consultant, Former CMIO and Pediatrician at Lehigh Valley Health Network about the role of Chief Medical Information Officers (CMIOs)! So to kick this episode off, we are talking a look at the shrinking margins and increasing demands in healthcare to d

For the 69th episode of the CIO podcast hosted by Healthcare IT Today, we are talking to Dr. Michael Hasselberg, PhD, Chief Digital Health Officer at University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC) about his organization’s alliance to expand healthcare access to rural communities! We kick this episode off by diving into what problem inspired Hasselberg to start this project. Then H

For the 68th episode of the CIO podcast hosted by Healthcare IT Today, we are talking to Shafiq Rab, MD, Chief Digital Officer, System CIO and EVP at Tufts Medicine, who just recently won 2024 CHIME CIO of the Year! As the CIO of the Year, we are very excited to pick his brain on health IT and leadership, so we kick this episode off by asking Rab what his health IT top 3 are and wh

For the 67th episode of the CIO podcast hosted by Healthcare IT Today, we are talking to Inderpal Kohli, Vice President and CIO at Englewood Health about cybersecurity and digital transformation! We kick this episode off by discussing Kohli's approach to cybersecurity, where he then shares a personal recommendation about cybersecurity for all healthcare CIOs. Then Kohli tells us al

For the 66th episode of the CIO podcast hosted by Healthcare IT Today, we are talking to Sergio Melgar, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at UMass Memorial Health (UMMH) about his organization's recent achievement of Epic Gold Star Level 10! First, we get into why Melgar decided to go for this incredible achievement. Then we discuss how UMMH reacted to his goal o

For the 65th episode of the CIO podcast hosted by Healthcare IT Today, we are talking about teamwork and leadership with Anna Turman, System VP of Region Health at CommonSpirit Health! We kick off this episode by debating what should be the top priority of a leader in our current environment. Then we discuss how CIOs can connect their why with stories while using both IT business l

For the 64th episode of the CIO podcast hosted by Healthcare IT Today, we are talking about cost optimization with Muhammad Siddiqui, Chief Digital & Information Officer at Reid Health. First, we discuss his approach to cost optimization from an IT perspective. Then he shares his process with budgets in this current uncertain environment. Next, we debate how a CIO should approach m

For the 63rd episode of the CIO podcast hosted by Healthcare IT Today, we are joined by CT Lin, MD, CMIO at UCHealth-Colorado to talk about patient messaging. To kick off the episode we dive into his work in sharing patient results and the efforts to keep it private. Next, we talk about how the sudden increase in patient messaging has led to some practices charging for the service