Health systems have been reading the $1 million information blocking penalty as their own exposure. Federal portal data points somewhere else entirely, and the fix belongs to three executives who rarely work the same problem. Source: Overwhelming Majority of Information Blocking Complaints Name Providers, Putting Risk in Records Workflows on healthsystemcio.com - Interviews & Webinars with Health System IT Leaders

Nine seconds per message is a weak business case for AI drafting, and that is what Memorial Hermann measured. The number justifying the rollout sits on the patient's side of the chart. Source: Memorial Hermann’s Epic AI Rollout Shows Why Seconds Saved Is the Wrong Test for In Basket AI on healthsystemcio.com - Interviews & Webinars with Health System IT Leaders

Your backups are current and your downtime plan is rehearsed, and this attack never touches either one. A phone call and a lookalike login page are now doing what encryption once did, at far greater scale. Source: ShinyHunters Extortion Moves to Identity, Where Ransomware Defenses Do Not Reach on healthsystemcio.com - Interviews & Webinars with Health System IT Leaders

Stephen O'Mahony, MD, SVP and Chief Medical Information Officer at RWJBarnabas Health, discusses the clinical adoption work behind an AI deterioration warning tied to an 18% reduction in the risk-adjusted odds of in-hospital death. He details the concept-to-data mapping done with the technical team, the suppression logic that keeps the system quiet when clinicians already know, and the silent background testing that cut daily alerts to a volume rapid response teams could absorb. Source: RWJBarnabas Health’s O’Mahony Says Clinician Questions Made AI Deterioration Alerts Better on healthsystemcio.com - Interviews & Webinars with Health System IT Leaders

Tinu Tadese, MD, System VP/CMIO at Boston Medical Center Health System, discusses Project Unite, the six-month integration that brought two former Steward Health Care hospitals onto a mature Epic build. She explains the MVP+ approach that lifted an academic build into community settings, the day-one data decisions that kept patients safe, and why conversion time is the constraint an acquisition timeline cannot compress. Source: Boston Medical Center’s Tadese Says Data Migration Time Governs Every Acquisition Timeline on healthsystemcio.com - Interviews & Webinars with Health System IT Leaders

Epic's published Emmie numbers read like validation for patient-facing AI. What Ochsner and RUSH measured covers scheduling and billing, while the clinical capability every new adopter promotes carries no accuracy data at all. Source: Emmie’s Published Results Cover Scheduling and Billing as New Adopters Promote Clinical Answers on healthsystemcio.com - Interviews & Webinars with Health System IT Leaders

Julie Demaree, VP, Chief Technology and Digital Innovation Officer at St. Mary's Healthcare, Corey Zeigler, CIO at Helio Health, and Carrie Weigand, MD, clinical advisor at Heidi Health, discuss how a lean IT department gets ambient AI into clinicians' hands. They cover buying at-the-elbow support instead of staffing it, the customization decisions that break vendor alignment, peer champions as the fastest training path, and who owns an AI model once it is live. Source: Panelists Agree: For Lean IT Teams, Vendor Alignment Is the Ambient AI Strategy on healthsystemcio.com - Interviews & Webinars with Health System IT Leaders

Vendor security questionnaires rarely come back with numbers you can act on. The device industry just published the product security measurements its own manufacturers use to judge maturity, and health systems can request every one. Source: Medical Device Makers Publish the Security Metrics Health Systems Should Demand on healthsystemcio.com - Interviews & Webinars with Health System IT Leaders

Chris Paravate, EVP and chief digital and information officer at Northeast Georgia Health System, discusses the five-week rollout of Epic’s Chart with Art to nurses and patient care techs at five hospitals. He explains why a tool that fails safely earns a lighter implementation, how 88% adoption in 30 days replaced a business case for the AI shift-handoff summary, and where operations must set the standard for mandatory AI use. Source: Northeast Georgia’s Paravate Says Ambient AI for Nurses Doesn’t Need the Legacy Go-Live Process on healthsystemcio.com - Interviews & Webinars with Health System IT Leaders

Cassie Marcelle, VP of clinical informatics and CNIO at UF Health, Marc Perkins-Carrillo, CNIO at Moffitt Cancer Center, and Lisa Stephenson, CNIO at Cedars-Sinai, discuss why ambient AI built for physician notes cannot simply be pointed at nursing flowsheets. They cover device platform gaps, nurses who use discrete fields as a checklist, super user programs with paid training hours, and governance built to remove flowsheet rows. Source: Health System CNIOs Say Nursing Workflow Differences Make Ambient AI a Steeper Climb on healthsystemcio.com - Interviews & Webinars with Health System IT Leaders

Epic's AI summarizes the chart. So does your ambient vendor. A third assistant now reads the same record, and the governance gate you built for the first two may not reach it. Source: ChatGPT’s Epic Integration Stacks a Third AI Layer on the Chart, Leaving CIOs to Sort the Overlap on healthsystemcio.com - Interviews & Webinars with Health System IT Leaders

J.D. Whitlock, CIO at Dayton Children's Hospital, breaks down the ambient AI decision waiting at the end of his Abridge contract and the test Epic's Chart with Art will have to pass. He explains why nursing ambient means a second vendor and a second bake-off, what reported take-private talks at Workday would do to the EpicOps timeline, and how 20 clinical governance committees keep the call out of his hands. Source: Dayton Children’s Whitlock Says Provider Experience Will Govern the Move to Epic’s Ambient AI on healthsystemcio.com - Interviews & Webinars with Health System IT Leaders

Your suicide safety plan template may sit in the chart without the written permission its copyright holders require. Meditech just closed that gap inside Expanse, and the change reaches further than compliance. Source: Meditech Customers Gain Licensed Suicide Prevention Tools Inside the EHR on healthsystemcio.com - Interviews & Webinars with Health System IT Leaders

Allison Dempsey, PhD, PMH-C, Director of Technology and Data Governance at the Brain and Behavior Innovation Center at CU Anschutz, discusses why behavioral health met AI’s consent and privacy questions before the rest of the enterprise. She explains the response cost test she applies to every technology request, how Colorado’s new psychotherapy AI law added a mid-session consent step to ambient documentation, and what a one-page request does to governance cycles. Source: CU Anschutz’s Dempsey Says AI’s Privacy Questions Are Familiar Ground in Behavioral Health on healthsystemcio.com - Interviews & Webinars with Health System IT Leaders

Shauna Overgaard, PhD, Senior Director of AI Strategy and Frameworks at Mayo Clinic, discusses an emerging approach that tests selected AI tools in the simulation center, with standardized patients, before clinical use. She describes the workflow shadowing that changed how Mayo's review board weighs proposals, the exploratory work on bringing clinicians into evaluation, and a reliability cue in development for patients a model may serve less well. Source: Mayo Clinic’s Overgaard Says Simulation Can Help Close the AI Translation Gap on healthsystemcio.com - Interviews & Webinars with Health System IT Leaders