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Anthony Guerra

Comprehensive interviews and panel discussions with health system IT leaders.

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59:16

Maximizing Value, Minimizing Risk: Operationalizing...

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2025/12/10

The race is on for healthcare organizations to deploy AI agents that increase productivity and cut costs. But with a rapidly evolving market, a wide range of options—from building in-house to buying a vendor solution to partnering with a middleware OEM—and a saturation of similar products, it can be difficult for health systems to cut through the noise. This webinar will help you navigate the agentic AI landscape. We’ll explore the pros and cons of the three main approaches: build, buy, or partner

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33:53

Ochsner Health’s Innovation Chief Says Deeply...

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2025/12/09

At Ochsner Health, AI is moving from experimental project to core clinical capability, and Jason Hill, MD, Innovation Officer, says the physicians and health systems that master it first will gain a decisive advantage in care quality and efficiency. Leading an innovation division inside an $8 billion, 46-hospital integrated delivery network that also operates its […]Source: Ochsner Health’s Innovation Chief Says Deeply Embracing AI Stakes to Play; But Monitoring Drift Essential on

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55:42

Strategies for Running an Efficient, Valued,...

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2025/12/04

Health-system IT executives face relentless user demand while working with constrained budgets and lean staffing. Running a tight ship is essential. That requires disciplined governance, transparent communication and proactive workload management—approaches that increase throughput and prevent stakeholders from overreacting to work still in progress. In this timely webinar, we will speak with leaders who operate at high capacity while keeping teams engaged and customers satisfied.Source: Strategies

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55:36

Exploring IT Optimization Opportunities in the...

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2025/11/18

Healthcare IT executives are deploying technologies such as generative AI to improve front-end patient access, enable ambient clinical documentation, and streamline back-office tasks like claims submission. Yet the mid-revenue cycle often receives less attention. This broad domain—including clinical documentation integrity and physician query management, medical coding and clinical validation, and charge capture and revenue integrity—still relies on entrenched workflows in many organizations. Given

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26:23

Mount Sinai’s Freeman Lays Out Keys for Moving AI...

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2025/11/12

Robbie Freeman, Chief Digital Transformation Officer, Mount Sinai Health System, is steering a consolidated digital-and-AI agenda that aims to simplify experiences for patients, clinicians, and a 48,000-person workforce, while tightening the link between experimentation and enterprise scale. In a wide-ranging discussion, he outlined a governance model that blends top-down priorities with bottom-up discovery, a disciplined […]Source: Mount Sinai’s Freeman Lays Out Keys for Moving AI Initiatives From

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43:44

Cedars-Sinai’s Odeh Says Shifting to Product Mindset...

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2025/11/06

Mouneer Odeh, VP, Chief Data and AI Officer, Cedars-Sinai, is positioning the organization to harness fast-maturing AI while keeping clinical workflow, governance, and scale at the center of decision-making. In a wide-ranging discussion, he traced his path from advanced analytics to enterprise AI, outlined the role of platform vendors versus best-of-breed tools and internal builds, […]Source: Cedars-Sinai’s Odeh Says Shifting to Product Mindset Key to Delivering what Users Need on

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39:11

Providence’s Goswami Prioritizing Spending Time on...

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2025/11/05

Chero Goswami, Chief Information & Digital Officer, Providence, is using front line observation, disciplined governance and renewed business-continuity planning to align technology with clinical reality across the seven-state system. In a recent interview, he outlined an approach that favors standard methods where possible, local flexibility where required, and a culture that treats reliability as a […] Source: Providence’s Goswami Prioritizing Spending Time on the Front Lines & Staying Focused on

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Rady Children’s Peika Says Combining Cloud & Chatbot...

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2025/11/05

Rady Children’s Health is consolidating analytics and AI-enabling services on a governed cloud platform to reduce friction for clinical, operational, and financial users. Caroline Peika, Director, Integration & Analytics, said the program pairs a centralized data environment with a private retrieval-augmented generation chatbot to turn internal documents into reliable answers with citations. The approach aims […] Source: Rady Children’s Peika Says Combining Cloud & Chatbot Can Yield Big Results on

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36:12

Intermountain’s Ranade-Kharkar Lays Out Strategy for...

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2025/11/05

Pallavi Ranade-Kharkar, PhD, Enterprise Director of Research Informatics and Genomics, Intermountain Health, laid out a disciplined approach to AI adoption that balances rising organizational pressure with patient-centered guardrails, emphasizing governance, security, and measurable value for clinicians and consumers. Health systems are under strain to automate, improve access, and lower costs. National spending projections point upward […] Source: Intermountain’s Ranade-Kharkar Lays Out Strategy

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36:15

Renown’s Podesta Says AI May Alter the Traditional...

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2025/11/05

Chuck Podesta, CIO, Renown Health, is steering his organization toward an interoperability model that leans on AI “orchestration” rather than large, centralized data repositories—while pairing that shift with tougher data governance and a stronger resilience posture. The three-hospital system in Reno, Nev., which includes an 800-bed regional facility, a community hospital, a children’s hospital and […] Source: Renown’s Podesta Says AI May Alter the Traditional Interoperability Paradigm on

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36:33

Inception’s Somai Focused on Letting Innovative Tech...

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2025/11/04

Melek Somai, MD, MPH, VP, Chief Technology & Product Officer, Inception Health – the innovation arm of ThedaCare-Froedtert Health, argues that healthcare’s cost and access pressures cannot be solved by staffing alone; they require technology-led redesign of how care is delivered. In a wide-ranging interview, he described why his organization is putting technology at the […]Source: Inception’s Somai Focused on Letting Innovative Tech Lead, Workflow Follow on healthsystemcio.com - healthsystemCIO.com

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28:54

Baptist’s Case Says CISO Role is About Balancing...

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2025/11/04

James Case, VP/CISO, Baptist Health, frames his program around a single theme: balance. Case seeks to harden the enterprise against modern threats while protecting the speed and reliability clinicians require to deliver care. He argues that the test of any control is whether it reduces material risk without creating unnecessary friction at the bedside, in […] Source: Baptist’s Case Says CISO Role is About Balancing Security Controls & Clinical Workflow Needs on healthsystemcio.com -

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27:45

CommonSpirit’s Hamid Says IT Spending Has to Take...

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2025/11/04

Adnan Hamid, VP/Regional CIO, CommonSpirit Health, says the next phase of “transforming care through innovation” begins with financial realism: health systems must preserve access for communities while confronting persistent cost pressure. In California, he helps support nearly 30 hospitals and more than 600 clinics inside one of the nation’s largest faith-based systems serving many underserved […] Source: CommonSpirit’s Hamid Says IT Spending Has to Take Tight Margins into Account on

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26:51

Mayo’s Halamka Advises Matching Degree of AI Autonomy...

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2025/10/23

Amid an era of exuberance around AI, John Halamka, MD, President, Mayo Clinic Platform, notes that the apparent “suddenness” of its appearance masks a long arc of work. “This is a overnight revolution, 50 years in the making,” he said, noting that today’s breakthroughs rest on decades of progress in compute, storage, and tooling—combined with […]Source: Mayo’s Halamka Advises Matching Degree of AI Autonomy to Workflow Risk Profile on healthsystemcio.com - healthsystemCIO.com is the sole online-only

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40:29

Dr. John Lee on Epic Optimization, Managing Data...

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2025/10/08

In a wide-ranging interview, John Lee, MD, Emergency Physician, Edward Hospital Naperville; Informaticist, & Epic Consultant, outlined a disciplined approach to getting more value from Epic while preparing for an AI-enabled future. He emphasized that health systems are still leaving significant capability untapped, urged CIOs to define firm boundaries for customization, and described how consolidating […]Source: Dr. John Lee on Epic Optimization, Managing Data During M&A, & AI Priorities Ahead on

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39:21

Duke Health Tightens AI Governance, Scales Pilots

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2025/10/08

Eric Poon, MD, MPH, Chief Health Information Officer, Duke University Health System, described how the organization is moving AI from scattered experiments to an operating discipline aligned with enterprise strategy. Poon outlined a single intake for technology decisions with added lifecycle oversight when AI is involved, and a bias toward evidence-based scaling. He said the […] Source: Duke Health Tightens AI Governance, Scales Pilots on healthsystemcio.com - healthsystemCIO.com is the sole

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59:13

From Conversation to Contract: Keys to Getting off on...

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2025/10/08

Early vendor engagements can set the trajectory for years. This session examines how health systems should structure first steps with startups and other vendors—clarifying data-sharing parameters, defining realistic timelines, and establishing criteria for expansion or termination. Panelists will detail how to frame success metrics that both parties can measure, align governance and decision rights, and distinguish when a limited pilot, phased rollout, or full contract is appropriate. The discussion

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54:14

Coordinating IT Training to Improve Usability and...

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2025/10/02

Effective IT training is a critical, yet often underappreciated, factor in health system performance. This webinar will examine how information technology executives can oversee and coordinate training for new hires, existing staff learning upgraded applications, and high-level users requiring advanced support. Panelists will discuss strategies for balancing the roles of IT, informatics, HR, vendors, and third-party trainers to ensure consistent education. They will also address how training impacts

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30:23

Pronovost Leading Whole-Hospital Remote Care...

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2025/10/01

Peter Pronovost, MD, PhD, Chief Clinical Transformation Officer, University Hospitals, is advancing a system-wide push to improve quality while reducing burden and cost. In a recent discussion with healthsystemCIO, he detailed a multi-year effort to reach “zero harm, zero suffering, zero waste, and zero inequities,” described a whole-hospital remote care platform now operating at Lake […]Source: Pronovost Leading Whole-Hospital Remote Care Innovation at University Hospitals on healthsystemcio.com -

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31:03

Embedding AI Where It Matters: UCI Health’s Pandita...

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2025/09/30

Deepti Pandita, MD, CMIO & VP of Clinical Informatics, UCI Health, thinks that the fastest path to value with AI is to stop treating it as a side project and weave it directly into existing operational priorities. “AI should be embedded into whatever your strategic projects are or whatever problems are being solved at the […] Source: Embedding AI Where It Matters: UCI Health’s Pandita on Governance, Vendors and the Go/No-Go Moment on healthsystemcio.com - healthsystemCIO.com is the sole

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