Leadership has never been more important in healthcare. To successfully navigate the challenges facing organizations, leaders must stay informed on the latest developments. And they also need to set policies that position their teams for longterm success.
The Views from the Top education sessions provide leaders from all levels of healthcare with the chance to learn how executives at successful provider organizations are meeting the challenges ahead.
One key challenge is the partnership between the clinical and the technical side of a healthcare organization. The relationship is fraught with challenges as each side aims to deliver the best possible outcome, but often requires the other side to make changes. To deliver patients with best care and meet the long range goals of the organization, the two perspectives need to work well together.
The session ”CIO and CMIO: Partners in Optimization and Transformation,” tackles the relationship between the CIO and CMIO. Leaders from the Cleveland Clinic and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center have agreed to share their experiences with the CIO-CMIO relationship and talk about the best practices that they’re using to deliver meaningful change.
The speakers from Cleveland Clinic will be C. Martin Harris, MD, MBA, Chief Information Officer and Chairman and Louis J. Capponi, MD, FACP, Chief Medical Information Officer. The speakers from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center: Peter Stetson, MD, Chief Health Informatics Officer and Patricia Skarulis, Senior Vice President and CIO.
There is no doubt that health information technology is a male-dominated field. What is the impact on a female health IT executive who finds herself in this field, from a personal, professional, and organizational perspective? In “Shattering the Glass Ceiling: Lessons Learned for Aspiring Female Executives, “ Sue Schade, CIO, University of Michigan Hospitals & Health Centers; and Deanna Wise, EVP and CIO, Dignity Health, will talk about the leadership styles that propelled these panelists to succeed in a male-dominated field. And they will talk about how their success can inspire others to excel not only in health IT but other areas too.
The Views from the Top session “How Future-Proof HIT Infrastructure Supports Data Sharing” will tackle the issue of interoperability and explore the role of record locator services. In a session that should provide some lively exchanges John Halamka, CIO of Beth Israel Deaconness Center, and Jonathan Bush, president and CEO, Athenahealth, will talk about record-sharing systems that are working today and data-exchange options that, in their view, are a mistake.
Time and Place: Sands Expo Convention Center, Rock of Ages Theater. CIO and CMIO: Partners in Optimization and Transformation , March 2, 10 AM. Shattering the Glass Ceiling: Lessons Learned for Aspiring Female Executives, March 2, 1 PM. How to Future-Proof HIT Infrastructure Supports Data Sharing, March 1, 11:30 AM