HIMSSCast: How CIOs and IT teams should prepare for a fast-evolving future in health IT
The healthcare industry is moving toward a distributed landscape, and the role of CIOs and other healthcare IT leaders is evolving with this change.
That's the view of William Lewkowski, vice president of HCTec, a healthcare consulting firm.
In this week's HIMSSCast podcast, we take a deep dive with Lewkowski on preparing for the future, discussing how healthcare CIOs and IT professionals can prepare for change and much more.
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Discussion points:
- Movement towards a distributed landscape.
- How the roles of CIOs and other healthcare IT leaders are evolving with this change.
- New responsibilities within these roles, new titles and new employees.
- New technologies that healthcare IT leaders at healthcare organizations should consider, and why.
- How healthcare CIOs and IT professionals should prepare for change.
- Provider organizations using distributed workforces in managed services. For example, streamlined help desks and predictive workflow control.
- Healthcare CIOs and IT leaders should take a futuristic approach.
- How using a futuristic lens can successfully integrate distributed models into an evolving environment.
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Email him: bsiwicki@himss.org
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