My Advice For Young Executives Managing Older Experienced Staff
These days, it is not uncommon to see fresher and younger talents tackle management positions and working together with the more experienced and older colleagues.
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Health Care CIOs Balance Innovation and Keeping the Lights On
Download and read the PDF What’s it like to be a chief information officer in today’s ever-changing health care landscape? In a few words: “exciting,” “disruptive,” “fun,” a “roller coaster.” Four CHIME Speakers Bureau faculty CIOs – Michael Archuleta, Theresa Meadows, Daniel Nigrin and Tressa Springmann – shared advice, experiences and thoughts on what’s ahead… read more
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500 Days…Key Actions in Your New Job
First Days. The typical executive switches jobs 5-7 times during their career. How do you ensure a smooth and successful transition? This five-part series is intended to compliment what others have written over the years with fresh perspective and expanded time horizons. In this post, I will start with recommended actions during an oft-ignored time period:… read more
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Privacy, the Unicorn of Our Digital Age
Daily Dose of Breach Reality I don’t seem to be able to get through a morning’s reading without seeing one or more instance of a data breach; information being either locked up by ransomware or removed/copied by the thousands and sometimes, tens of thousands of records. Having spent a good portion of my career with… read more
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Here We Are, But How Did We Get Here?
I won’t go too far in the way-back machine, but I don’t believe we can have a good conversation about where we are unless we talk a little bit about where we started. I’m thinking this may require more than one post, but we’ll see.
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The Face of IT
For any business, long-term goals are unattainable without leveraging the advantages of information technology. However, IT teams in various organizations often work under shadow of other teams and departments— and hence remain detached from the rest of the team. This creates many problems, the biggest of which is the perception (and hence the use) of… read more
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Are you a turnaround CIO aka the cleaner?
Companies in need of a quick business turnaround look for specific qualities in a CIO candidate, because very often the state of the business is such that a wrong decision might worsen things, and it might even lead to the demise of the company. The qualities needed in a turnaround CIO are not necessarily the… read more
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What Does the Election Mean for the Health IT Community?
Committee rosters in both the U.S. House and Senate will look quite different as incumbent losses and retirements impact committees with healthcare jurisdiction. Health IT has largely been a topic garnering bipartisan interest on Capitol Hill, however, new committee leadership and a change in who holds the gavel will likely impact the lens through which issues are examined. Here is a look at the new lineup and likely priorities.
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Finding a Mentor: 5 Questions to Ask
I was working in my home office when our family’s former babysitter, Lauren, texted. She was in her junior year of undergraduate classes, studying Elementary Education, and she was requesting to meet with me next time she came home. Lauren had become part of our family in the time we’d known her and I was… read more
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CMIO Leadership Academy 2.0
For the last several years, CHIME has sponsored a program for CMIOs and other Clinical Informaticists in association with the CHIME Fall Forum. This year, we’re doing something quite different. First, instead of scheduling the program at the end of the Fall Forum when everyone else is packing up to go home, we’ve moved it… read more
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At the Ann Arbor Office
The Ann Arbor team was thrilled to have these smiling faces in our office!
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