“In short, policy and payment imperatives have increasingly been driving the U.S. healthcare system forward over the past several years, and that broad healthcare system change has forced change at the operational level at hospitals, medical groups, and health systems. And, of course, healthcare IT has been and continues to be, a key facilitator of all this transformation. And that has put healthcare IT leaders—most especially CIOs, CMIOs, and other senior healthcare IT leaders—in patient care organizations—in positions of both extreme importance and tremendous pressure. CIOs, CMIOs, and their senior-level healthcare IT colleagues are in a position to be more influential than ever, among their c-suite colleagues. But they’re also under more pressure than ever to help their executive teams figure out how to leverage data and IT in ways that will help transform those organizations as they go into the new healthcare.”
“Of course, one of the underlying challenges in all this is that very few senior-level healthcare IT leaders got to where they’ve gotten to, via public policy-related routes. Most CIOs started out as programmers, IT network managers, telecom managers, etc., while…” Read the full article here.
Source: Healthcare Informatics, How the HIT Industry’s Dominant Annual Conference Became (At Least Partly) a Policy Conference – By Mark Hagland, March 14, 2018.
