Cross-Sector Tabletop Finds Hospitals Underprepared for Water-Linked Cyber Crises
Health systems may be less resilient to a major cyberattack than they assume when critical dependencies—especially water—are disrupted, according the, “2025 Americas Hobby Exercise After Action Report,” from H-ISAC. This year’s Hobby Exercise expanded beyond healthcare to include the water sector, revealing how outages in essential services can complicate cyber response and clinical operations. Participants repeatedly […]
Finding Meaning in the Struggle
There’s an underlying practicality to my reading: I’m always looking for things I can use—ideas I can apply to be, do and feel better; to help me navigate life’s storms and deal with the aftermath when they blow through. One of the books that truly did the trick was Seneca’s “Letters from a Stoic”—missives of […]
John Muir CMIO Lays out Fast Follower AI Strategy
Priti Patel, MD, CMIO, John Muir Health, is steering a measured expansion of AI from long-running predictive models to newer generative tools, pairing administrative relief with cautious governance and education for clinicians and patients. Under her direction, the system has deployed ambient scribing across ambulatory practices and is extending that footprint to inpatient and emergency […]
CHOP’s Lawton Says Docs & Nurses Seeing Benefits of Epic-Integrated Ambient AI
At Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Epic-integrated AI continues to do what humans rarely can at the tail end of long patient visits: captures every detail, improves coding accuracy, and eases the documentation burden. Greg Lawton, MD, EHR Medical Director – CHOP Primary Care, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, describes a measured path to deploying generative AI […]
Interviews
John Muir CMIO Lays out Fast Follower AI Strategy
Priti Patel, MD, CMIO, John Muir Health, is steering a measured expansion of AI from long-running predictive models to newer generative tools, pairing administrative relief with cautious governance and education for clinicians and patients. Under her direction, the system has deployed ambient scribing across ambulatory practices and is extending that footprint to inpatient and emergency […]
CHOP’s Lawton Says Docs & Nurses Seeing Benefits of Epic-Integrated Ambient AI
At Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Epic-integrated AI continues to do what humans rarely can at the tail end of long patient visits: captures every detail, improves coding accuracy, and eases the documentation burden. Greg Lawton, MD, EHR Medical Director – CHOP Primary Care, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, describes a measured path to deploying generative AI […]
Mayo’s Halamka Advises Matching Degree of AI Autonomy to Workflow Risk Profile
Amid an era of exuberance around AI, John Halamka, MD, President, Mayo Clinic Platform, notes that the apparent “suddenness” of its appearance masks a long arc of work. “This is a overnight revolution, 50 years in the making,” he said, noting that today’s breakthroughs rest on decades of progress in compute, storage, and tooling—combined with […]
Mercy’s AI Leader: Strategy First, Governance Always
Kerry Bommarito, PhD, VP, Enterprise AI and Decision Intelligence, Mercy, says the health system’s AI agenda begins with the enterprise plan, not shiny tools. After the executive team sets five organization-wide OKRs each fiscal year, work streams cascade to accountable leaders; Bommarito is a trustee on a key result aimed at revenue-cycle improvements through automation […]
Columns & Articles
Finding Meaning in the Struggle
There’s an underlying practicality to my reading: I’m always looking for things I can use—ideas I can apply to be, do and feel better; to help me navigate life’s storms and deal with the aftermath when they blow through. One of the books that truly did the trick was Seneca’s “Letters from a Stoic”—missives of […]
The Only Stream That Matters
I knew it was going to be a busy day. The kids had school and, right afterward, I had to pick up my 16-year-old and take him to the dentist for his six-month cleaning. Since we all know how well teenagers care for their teeth, I consider these visits essential. But when Tyler woke up […]
Ambient AI Moves from Implementation to Optimization as Leaders Refine Tools & Training
Health systems eager to lighten the documentation burden on providers are moving from small pilots to enterprise rollouts of ambient AI tools, according to panelists at the healthsystemCIO webinar “Optimizing Ambient AI Adoption Across the Care Team.” Leaders from Seattle Children’s, Beth Israel Lahey Health, and Heidi Health described rapid clinician uptake, a broadening set […]
The Gambler, the Coaches & Their Egos
I was sitting in my living room watching an exceptional Netflix documentary when the thought hit me: “If he had only read his Lincoln.” Now, what I really should have thought was “If he had only read about Lincoln,” but the point was still valid. The documentary—“America’s Team: The Gambler & His Cowboys”—recounts the story […]
Cybersecurity
Cross-Sector Tabletop Finds Hospitals Underprepared for Water-Linked Cyber Crises
Health systems may be less resilient to a major cyberattack than they assume when critical dependencies—especially water—are disrupted, according the, “2025 Americas Hobby Exercise After Action Report,” from H-ISAC. This year’s Hobby Exercise expanded beyond healthcare to include the water sector, revealing how outages in essential services can complicate cyber response and clinical operations. Participants repeatedly […]
H-ISAC Report Warns of State-Criminal Cyber Alliances
Nation-state services and criminal gangs are blending tactics, tooling, and motives in ways that complicate attribution and raise risk for hospital operations, according a new report from H-ISAC and CI-ISAC Australia. The most consequential finding for provider organizations is that governments are increasingly empowering local cybercriminals—and, at times, private contractors—to act as disposable extensions of […]
UC San Diego Health’s Tully Sees Upside in Monitoring the Industry’s Vital Signs
Health systems should treat technology failures as a public-health threat with direct and measurable effects on patient care. To prepare, organizations need real-time monitoring, specialty-specific playbooks, and incident structures that bring IT and clinical leaders together, according to Jeff Tully, MD, Co-Director of the Center for Healthcare Cybersecurity and Associate Clinical Professor of Anesthesiology at […]
Bridging Business and Cybersecurity: Inside the Role of a Business Information Security Officer
As cyber threats become more sophisticated and health systems diversify their operations, new roles are emerging to close the gap between business needs and cybersecurity imperatives. One such position is the Business Information Security Officer (BISO), tasked with tailoring security strategies to the unique demands of each operational unit. At Michigan Medicine, Ashley Gelisse serves […]
Webinars
Exploring IT Optimization Opportunities in the Mid-Revenue Cycle
Healthcare IT executives are deploying technologies such as generative AI to improve front-end patient access, enable ambient clinical documentation, and streamline back-office tasks like claims submission. Yet the mid-revenue cycle often receives less attention. This broad domain—including clinical … [Read More]
Cyber Strategies for Securing the AI Influx
AI is being infused into the healthcare ecosystem from 1,000 directions at 100 miles per hour. At least, that’s what it feels like to many tasked with ensuring those injections are done with proper guardrails in place. And while the risks of drift, hallucinations, and bias are at least well … [Read More]
Strengthening Cyber Resilience with More Accurate IT Asset Data
As health-system IT ecosystems grow more complex, leaders need a better understanding of which technologies they run, where each sits in its risk life cycle, and how assets map to the clinical and administrative workflows they support. It is with the attainment of this more continuous, end-to-end … [Read More]
On-Demand Webinar: Optimizing Ambient AI Adoption Across the Care Team
Health systems that have implemented ambient AI technology often face a familiar challenge: ensuring consistent adoption and maximizing its value across diverse clinical roles. This webinar will examine strategies IT leaders can use to assess, measure, and improve ambient AI utilization, from … [Read More]
On-Demand Webinar: From Conversation to Contract – Keys to Getting off on the Right Foot with Startups & Other Vendors
Early vendor engagements can set the trajectory for years. This session examines how health systems should structure first steps with startups and other vendors—clarifying data-sharing parameters, defining realistic timelines, and establishing criteria for expansion or termination. Panelists will … [Read More]
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