Strategic Planning

<p>A new hospital benchmarking study sheds light on how prepared hospitals are to combat cybersecurity attacks and highlights potential areas of focus, says Ed Gaudet, CEO and founder of Censinet.</p> <p> </p>

<p>CIOs employ AI and HIPAA and other best practices to vet third-party risk, says Aaron Miri, senior vice president and chief digital and information officer at Baptist Health.</p>

BJC and Saint Luke's envision becoming the premier Midwest destination for patient care, clinical research and medical education. 

<p>Dr. Eric Liederman, director of medical informatics for the Permanente Medical Group, describes how the shared security governance within the Kaiser Permanente organization helps strengthen its cybersecurity posture.</p>

<p>Lisa Stephenson, chair of the HIMSS Nursing Informatics Committee and CNIO at Houston Methodist, says nurses need to move beyond culling data from the EHR to a bigger picture that includes interoperability and health equity.</p> <p> </p>

"Rise to Health is about making health equity actionable," says Dr. Kedar Mate.

<p>Epic MyChart is used to communicate with patients about clinical research, says Cleveland Clinic's chief research information officer Dr. Lara Jehi, and IT product director for population health Craig Martin.</p>

<p>ComplyAssistant CEO Gerry Blass and University Hospital CISO Frank Sinatra discuss the Health Industry Cybersecurity Practices (HICP) guide, which aims to prevent threats coming from phishing, ransomware, data loss and attacks against connected medical devices.</p> <p> </p>

<p>The current manual process could be made easier by mining data in the EHR for specific research, says Robert Stillman, director of clinical and research informatics at the Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center.</p> <p> </p>

There are no assurances CVS will improve its star ratings as CMS makes it harder to achieve four or more stars. CVS says.