CMIO PODCAST INTERVIEWS

Podcast Listings

Aug 9, 2021

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...

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...

Dec 27, 2019

Part 3 of 3: EMR Implementation Strategies with Dr. Eric Lee

The final part in the series on EMR Implementation with Dr. Eric Lee. This episode focuses on training, the go-live day, and...

Dec 19, 2019

Part 2 of 3 - EMR Implementation Strategies with Dr. Eric Lee

Part 2 of 3 with Dr. Eric Lee. We continue our discussion of EMR implementations including the build phase with all of its inherent...

Dec 12, 2019

EMR Implementations with Dr. Eric Lee

Dr. Eric Lee from AltaMed joins CMIO Podcast this week to discuss the challenges with EMR implementations. We start from the initial...

Dec 6, 2019

How to Handle the Angry Physician

What do you do when a physician is throwing a fit over the latest upgrade? How do you handle the passive aggressive doc that runs to the...

Nov 28, 2019

Interview with Dr. Andrew Mellin, Surescripts CMO

Andrew is now the CMO for Surescripts, which all of us know as the pharmacy interface vendor that connects our EMRs to the pharmacies. ...

Nov 21, 2019

Interview with Associate CMIO Rebecca Mishuris

Rebecca is heavily involved with quality and safety with her medical group in Boston. In this interview we discuss how she does this...

Nov 13, 2019

Interview with Ankur Teredesai

Ankur is a co-founder at KenSci, an AI company in the population health space. The company was recently noted in a KLAS survey for a...

Oct 31, 2019

Knowledge to Practice

"Learning is a Lifestyle" per Mary Ellen Beliveau, CEO of Knowledge to Practice. Sometimes the problem is not the tech, but a knowledge...

Oct 24, 2019

NCPDP and the SUPPORT Act are Coming to us Soon.

Are you prepared? Our prescription interface is getting an upgrade and it has an impact on all our providers. A longer sig length,...

Oct 17, 2019

Practical Advice for CMIOs about Artificial Intelligence

Do you think Amazon purchases a 3rd party machine learning tool to tell them what books you might want to order? No. So why do we...

Oct 10, 2019

PAMA Discussion with Dr. Lee Milligan and Dr. Peter Canning

Drs. Lee Milligan and Peter Canning from Asante join me for a discussion about the implementation of the upcoming PAMA law. We review...

Oct 2, 2019

Interview with Taylor Davis from the Arch Collaborative

Hear the science behind measuring EHR satisfaction from Taylor Davis at KLAS. They are truly the experts in understanding how well...

Sep 26, 2019

Innovation Interview with Justin Gernot from Healthbox

What does innovation look like in your system? Innovation in healthcare can come from anywhere and our clinical colleagues have a...

Sep 19, 2019

Interview with Dr. Jonathan Teich

Dr. Teich is a different kind of CMIO. He works for Intersystems and still practices emergency medicine. Active in both HIMSS and AMIA,...

Sep 12, 2019

Interview with Dr. Eric Topol

Dr. Topol is world renowned for his expertise in technology and I am thrilled to have him on the show. In his recent article in the New...