Bill Siwicki

CIOs are in the best position as the originator and gatekeeper of data and as a fellow C-suite observer to comment on changing C-suite roles.

Staff immediately noticed the impact of the systems. They receive significantly fewer mailed checks, which has reduced the time spent to process payments. They also send fewer statements.

In one case, 100 percent of Avera's respiratory therapists missed at least one therapy or medication order per day by at least 30 minutes – now, with the new platform, only 11 percent of therapists per day miss an order by that time.

Telemedicine consults have grown 73 percent annually over the last five years at the Kansas City children's hospital.

Some doctors at Massachusetts General Physicians Organization have saved more than two hours per clinical session with virtual scribe technology.

Eighty percent of users say the technology saves them time, and three out of four believe it has reduced errors.

Cedar View Rehabilitation also has seen a 6 percent decrease in readmissions because it has been able to coordinate care better with external providers.

Since the new discharge platform was introduced at Bon Secours Charity Hospital, it has cut the amount of time case managers need to prepare from a daily average of 35 minutes to eight.

Some forward-looking CIOs are putting together AI dashboards, or beginning to think about such dashboards and what would make them useful tools.

The University of Virginia Health System wanted to create interactive multimedia reports, believing that radiologists could communicate better through the use of enriched and interactive content.