What is the Biggest Challenge Facing Healthcare CIOs Today and What Can be Done About It?

Being a healthcare CIO can be very stressful. There are an endless amount of problems that you are being tasked to find solutions for, endless amounts of technology to look into and consider for your organization, and endless considerations on how to make your organization better for both your employees and your consumers. So at the recent CHIME 2023 Conference, we thought we’d commiserate a little bit on some of the challenges CIOs are facing and see if we could maybe find some solutions along the way! We asked some of our brightest friends what they thought was the biggest challenge facing CIOs today and what can be done about it. The video below is a compilation of their answers! Jason Griffin, Head of Digital Health Strategy at Nordic – I think the more technology debt that we’re taking on and the more digital strategies that are being implemented, it’s even more incumbent upon our technology leaders to help the organizations understand the organizational change management that needs to come with that new technology. That is a daunting task, to change those long-lasting and well-entrenched processes and procedures that have just gone on for a long time and you can’t just layer technology over top of that. So I think for our technology and CIO leaders, and even our CSOs, their main goal is to help their organizations understand the value of that technology and how to really operationalize that technology in their environments. Khalid Turk, He...
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