Dr. Al Villarin Returns - 1 year as a CMIO at Nuvance Health
Al was a previous guest on the show and he did such a great job in May of 2020 that I brought him back for the sequel. Al is now 1 year...
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CMIO PODCAST
by Mark Weisman, MD
Advancing the Knowledge of Today's CMIO
Making healthcare better isn't easy, but there are devoted clinicians working in informatics and analytics trying to have an impact at the care delivered in the exam room or at the bedside. I'm your host, Dr. Mark Weisman, a practicing physician and Chief Medical Information Officer. On this site you will find podcasts and blog posts to educate and inform about Health IT topics pertinent to clinicians improving healthcare. If you have a passion to make the lives of our clinicians better through the use of technology, this show is for you.
Latest Podcasts
Dec 22, 2020
Discussing IT Culture with Adam Tallinger
IT culture is a unique beast, especially in healthcare where there is such a focus on safety. "Go slow and say no" seems to be a common...
Sep 18, 2020
Interview with Dr. Ori Lotan
Ori is a CMIO with a ton of experience. His recent blog post about training physicians really resonated with me. Train the workflow,...
Sep 11, 2020
Interview with Michael Stamatinos, Healthcare Innovator
Michael has a unique role in healthcare. He helps startups connect with health systems to solve the most pressing problems facing the...
Sep 3, 2020
Taking Over a New Team: The First 90 Days
Bill Russell and I discuss the first 90 days of taking over a new team. A quote from Bill: "Our problem in Health IT is we consider it a...
Aug 21, 2020
Questions I get Asked by Doctors with Dave Lehr - CIO
"Why does my computer lock at 8 minutes" and "How come I can't use the VPN to connect to the hospital" are questions I know you get too. ...
Aug 14, 2020
Interview with Dr. Craig Joseph
Craig Joseph, MD is now a CMO at Nordic Consulting Partners, Inc. and has significant experience as a CMIO and with informatics. He...
Aug 8, 2020
INTERVIEW WITH DR. GABE CHARBONNEAU ABOUT AI SPEECH TO TEXT
Are we getting to the place where AI speech to text is ready to go mainstream? Gabe is a vocal proponent for fighting physician burnout...
Jul 30, 2020
INTERVIEW WITH PADDY PADMANABHAN, What a CMIO needs to Know about the Digital Front Door
The Digital Front Door is an area typically covered by the chief marketing officer or perhaps a CTO or CDO, but I think there is plenty...
Jul 25, 2020
Interview with Dr. Everett Weiss and the need for ROI in the CMIO role
Everett has an interesting journey as a former CMIO and previous employee at Allscripts. We discuss the importance of showing value to...
Jul 16, 2020
Interview with Dr. Matt Mesnik, CMO
Special 100th episode anniversary for CMIO Podcast. I have Dr. Matt Mesnik on the show to talk about the collaboration we have between...
Jul 9, 2020
Interview with Michael Hasselberg M.S. Ph.D.
Michael is from the University of Rochester and recently published an article about the digital landscape in healthcare. U of R is doing...
Jul 2, 2020
Interview with Dr. Mark Toups
"And what I wanted to instill was curiosity. It was okay not to know. It was okay to be bewildered and to wonder, and to be curious and...
Jun 11, 2020
Interview with JD Whitlock, CIO about the CMIO/CIO Relationship
JD is the CIO at Dayton Children's hospital in Ohio and I reached out to him to discuss CMIO/CIO relationships. The reporting...
May 28, 2020
Interview with Dr. Will O'Connor
Will had an early start in computing and healthcare (he clearly was one of those overachiever kids in high school) . His journey took...
May 23, 2020
Interview with Dr. Justin Mazzillo, assoc-CMIO
When I read through the summaries of the 21st Century Cures act, I interpreted the line about not having to release information that...
May 14, 2020
Interview with Dr. David Butler, CEO of Calyx Healthcare Partners
David is a very experienced CMIO that has taught at the CHIME CMIO boot-camp, served as a strategic advisor to Epic, and now is on the...
May 6, 2020
Interview with Dr. Al Villarin, CMIO
"The patients see the back of their physicians heads. That is not healthcare. That is data collection." - Love that quote from Al. He...
Apr 30, 2020
DR. ELSIE KOH TALKS LEADERSHIP FOR CMIOS
Elsie has been a CMIO and is now a CMO for a startup and CEO of her own physician coaching program. To become a leader, she needed to...
Apr 23, 2020
Interview with Dr. Naveen Muthu - Pediatric Informtaticist
This week I interview Naveen, a pediatrician with CHOP (Children's Hospital of Philidelphia) and a fellowship trained informaticist. We...
Apr 10, 2020
DR. BILL DEPASO TALKS ABOUT TWISTLE, A PATIENT COMMUNICATION TOOL
Twistle is a doctor to patient communication tool that I heard Swedish was using to keep track of PUIs or COVID positive patients leaving...
Apr 3, 2020
Interview with Dr. Brett Daniel, CMIO, about COVID-19 Response
Brett is at the epicenter of the Coronavirus outbreak in Seattle as the regional CMIO. He has been very transparent about their response...
Mar 26, 2020
Physician Advancement: an Interview with Sandy Scott
Sandy is a physician coach who helped over 500 physicians to grow their administrative careers. In this episode I ask her about the...
Mar 19, 2020
Ambient AI from Nuance: Interview with Dr. Jared Pelo and Dr. Robert Budman
Imagine sitting in the exam room, talking to your patient, not touching the keyboard, and when you are done with the visit your note is...
Mar 12, 2020
Interview with Dr. Colin Banas
Colin was a CMIO for a looong time before making the jump to the vendor side. He is now at DRFirst and he talks to us about making the...
Mar 5, 2020
The Value of a Good Health Information Exchange with Dr. Samit Desai
As CMIOs we do not learn a lot about HIEs and there isn't a class you can go take to brush up on this topic. So to learn more, I...
Feb 29, 2020
THE CMIO JOB MARKET WITH RYAN LARKIN
Ryan is the COO of MDstaffers and joins us to discuss the state of the job market for physician informaticists. We talk about the skills...
Feb 20, 2020
Physician Engagement with Rabin Pant
Rabin has a ton of experience with implementations and building informatics programs and on this episode he shares with us his thoughts...
Feb 12, 2020
A Retiring CMIOs Perspective with Dr. Donald Levick
Don has 20+ years of informatics experience and is a wealth of knowledge. Today I ask him to look back and consider some of the high and...
Feb 5, 2020
Interview with Dr. Neal Chawla from WakeMed
"You pay the keyboard price". A great line from Neil about the challenges with all the clicks and scrolls we encounter. Neil is a CMIO...
Jan 30, 2020
Interview with Dr. Sarah Cash, Physician Informaticist, Consultant
Sarah has a really unique background and is the first informaticist I have met that also trades stock options. Her journey has taken her...
Jan 23, 2020
What A CMIO Needs to Know about 5G Technology
The extent of my 5G knowledge previously was from the T-mobile commercials that would play during the long booth reviews during a NFL...
Jan 18, 2020
Leadership Development with Dr. Mark Edney
Mark is a practicing urologist and medical staff leader and a student of leadership development. He got hooked on leadership theories...
Jan 10, 2020
Achieving Clinical and Operational Excellence Through the Use of Data
John Wadsworth, from Health Catalyst, has been instrumental in helping organizations improve clinical and operational challenges for...
Jan 3, 2020
Interview with Trisha Swift
Trisha is an amazing informaticist who is now applying her clinical skills outside of the traditional hospital setting. Ever wonder what...
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