healthsystemCIO – Strategies for Hospital IT Leaders

Candid journalism and leadership insights for the modern Hospital CIO. healthsystemCIO is the definitive resource for Health System executives navigating Cybersecurity, AI Governance, and Digital Transformation. Hosted by Anthony Guerra, a veteran Healthcare IT Journalist.

healthsystemCIO – Strategies for Hospital IT Leaders is a technology podcast hosted by Unknown Host, with 1,000 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

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  Franciscan Health’s Christian Says AI Spend Stays Unpredictable Until the Bill Arrives

  Sep 23, 202650 min

  Chuck Christian, VP of Technology/CTO at Franciscan Health, discusses why the cost controls health systems built for the cloud do not extend to AI. He describes the Cloud Cost Analyst role he created in 2023, the weekly report it produces, and a workload move projected to save about $50,000 a month. He also covers chargeback, token metering, and what happens when outside agents start querying health system APIs at volume.

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  Inova’s Kull Says a Data Moat Is a Losing Strategy as LLMs Become the Front Door

  Sep 21, 202656 min

  Matthew Kull, EVP, Chief Information and Digital Officer at Inova Health, discusses why walling scheduling data off from large language models costs health systems appointments. He reports API calls from ChatGPT into Inova's Epic environment have skyrocketed, warns peers to expect a 10X jump in API fees, and explains the autonomy line separating Inova's agentic call center, now handling 400,000 calls a month, from its human-in-the-loop clinical AI.

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  Temple Health’s Lai Says Machine-Speed Attacks Leave CISOs No Choice on Automated Defense

  Sep 14, 202639 min

  Hugo Lai, Chief Information Security Officer at Temple Health – Temple University Health System, discusses why frontier AI collapsed the 30-day patch window and what changes when defense has to run at machine speed. He details the limits and monitoring every defensive agent needs, the security point of contact missing from most business associate agreements, and why a major outage reaches the C-suite as a denial-of-revenue attack.

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  RWJBarnabas Health’s O’Mahony Says Clinician Questions Made AI Deterioration Alerts Better

  Sep 9, 202656 min

  Stephen O'Mahony, MD, SVP and Chief Medical Information Officer at RWJBarnabas Health, discusses the clinical adoption work behind an AI deterioration warning tied to an 18% reduction in the risk-adjusted odds of in-hospital death. He details the concept-to-data mapping done with the technical team, the suppression logic that keeps the system quiet when clinicians already know, and the silent background testing that cut daily alerts to a volume rapid response teams could absorb.

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  Boston Medical Center’s Tadese Says Data Migration Time Governs Every Acquisition Timeline

  Sep 8, 202645 min

  Tinu Tadese, MD, System VP/CMIO at Boston Medical Center Health System, discusses Project Unite, the six-month integration that brought two former Steward Health Care hospitals onto a mature Epic build. She explains the MVP+ approach that lifted an academic build into community settings, the day-one data decisions that kept patients safe, and why conversion time is the constraint an acquisition timeline cannot compress.

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