HEALTHCARE CIO STRATEGY MEETING

How to use population health to meet the needs of patients?
• Preparing for inevitable changes to the health care system and reimbursement models
• Identifying risks of inaction
• Building a population health management strategy and addressing related gaps in information technology capabilities

How will you align your IT vision with your healthcare organization’s work and structures?
• Creating the balance between efficiency and productivity in your organization
• What does this mean to your healthcare organization’s IT investments and day-to-day operations?
• How is the IT plan impacting on cultural change and addressing the IT skills required for your healthcare organization?

Ensuring quality talent and leaders are in the right places.
• How do you strengthen relationships, rapport, and collaboration from within?
• Developing an approach to recruiting with the importance of the “culture fit”
• Addressing disappointments, setbacks, political problems, and other challenges head on

Establishing a mature and strong connection between IT investments, organizational strategies, and operational needs.
• How do you ensure alignment processes are inclusive, rigorous, and invite debate?
• What are some significant core clinical and operational aspects to focus on?
• Identifying initiatives for expanding and capitalizing on the ability to gather critical data while enabling new business models

Analyzing major and minor IT initiatives and improvements thoroughly and continuously.
• What are the investment opportunities in population health?
• How do you improve industry changes towards value-based care?
• How to make decisions with business vision and management instinct

Developing sustainable IT governance strategies to increase your organizational effectiveness and efficiency.
• Forming initiatives for setting priorities and determining budgets across the organization
• Defining project management approaches
• Addressing IT problems and avoiding impulse decisions

Roadmap to respond rapidly to technology changes and shorter business cycles.
• Understanding the value proposition for cloud computing technologies
• What are ways to ensure cloud-based systems are adaptable to various departmental needs and organizational sizes?
• Emphasizing the importance of security and data protection

Adopting the next wave of technological advances that will influence healthcare IT structure and investments.
• What are the steps to creating a collaborative and effective environment?
• What can other organizational members outside of IT do to support the long-term goals?
• Establishing need for thoughtful evaluation of IT opportunities and current technological investments

Balancing the tug of daily operations with the need to execute cost-effective and innovative strategies.
• What are the larger forces at work in your healthcare organization’s environment?
• What is central to developing innovation and daily work balance at an organizational level?
• What are the tasks that need to be done in order to succeed in this area?

What are the rising IT strategies that address challenges in advancing and securing interoperable health information?
• How can you change perceptions of interoperability and its potential in healthcare?
• How are you breaking the interoperability problem into reachable goals?
• Are you rethinking the interoperable infrastructure from a business and care, rather than implementation, perspective?

Meeting the evolving needs of digital health consumers through user-centric strategies.
• How do you understand consumers on a much deeper level?
• How do you address consumer concerns, skepticism, and expectations of digital medical information?
• How can healthcare IT leaders enhance consumer experience strategies?

Improving healthcare delivery through the use of mobile health technology.
• What is your experience with mobile health technologies?
• How is your healthcare organization implementing mobile health applications, systems, and devices?
• How have your consumers responded?

Delivering integrated healthcare services across regional and remote areas.
• What are the challenges and opportunities that telehealth technologies present and how do you gain experience with them?
• What should you consider before implementing telehealth solutions?
• How do you maintain levels of security and availability?

Using IT advances to enhance collaboration between the private and public sectors.
• What are the benefits for healthcare organizations to establish partnerships with each other?
• How can the CIO help facilitate public and private health partnerships?
• What are the challenges?

What is the best way to contextualize the way your health organization analyzes and incorporates feedback from data?
• How will investing in an enterprise data warehouse impact the future of further personalized healthcare?
• What type of approach does your healthcare organization take to binding data?
• Dissecting the enterprise data model approach to improve patient outcomes

Using traditional relational databases to personalize treatment/advance medical knowledge.
• How has the incorporation of collecting big data and using analytical systems impacted patient care in your healthcare organization?
• What has been critical to these initiatives working?
• How have newer databases affected the use and value of existing EHR systems?

How does the use of predictive modeling and analytics tools affect population health management?
• Crafting clinical decision-making tactics, preventing readmission, tracking variable costs more accurately, and personalizing treatment
• Adjusting to a new care delivery approach
• Transitioning to value-based care