In this episode, Russ chats with Michael Jefferies, the Chief Information Officer of Boulder Community Health in Boulder, Colorado. Michael is a long-time and dedicated CHIME Member and is a CHIME Certified CIO. He’s well known for his passion and efforts around advocacy and education. From his experience as a leader in a community healthcare organization to his passion for policy, Michael has learned the importance of sharing our voices, advocating for the healthcare industry, and supporting st...
Jun 02, 2022•26 min•Transcript available on Metacast CHIME 30th Anniversary Podcast: FAMILY with Chuck Christian, 2015 CHIME Board Chair CALLED TO COMMUNITY & PARTNERSHIP Take a break today with our 30th Anniversary podcast featuring Russ and long-time CIO, industry thought leader, and CHIME's 2015 Board Chair, Chuck Christian, the current VP of Technology for Franciscan Health. Chuck is well-known and highly respected in our CHIME community, having received both the CIO of the Year Award and CHIME’s Federal Public Policy Award for CIO Leaders...
Jun 01, 2022•29 min•Transcript available on Metacast Andrea Daugherty , Interim CIO and Director of Security & Infrastructure Dell Medical School & UT Health Austin, UT Austin Join the conversation with Russ Branzell and Andrea Daugherty, the Interim CIO and Director of Security & Infrastructure for the University of Texas, the Dell Medical School and UT Health Austin. With more than fifteen years of progressive healthcare expertise ranging from clinical to technology, Andrea is well known by her peers and colleagues for not just leadi...
May 26, 2022•29 min•Transcript available on Metacast This week's 30th Anniversary Podcast features CHIMES's 2016 Board Chair and 2019 CHIME CIO of the Year, Marc Probst, CIO of ELLKAY. Not only does Marc talk about his professional journey and perspectives from both sides of the table that have helped shape his career, he shares what his next exciting phase in life is going to be (tune in to find out!). Hear Marc's insights into the importance and impact of relationships, the reason behind his passion for advocacy, and a little bit of "roll up you...
May 24, 2022•25 min•Transcript available on Metacast Join us as we celebrate our three decades of dedication to digital health leadership with this special edition podcast! For each of the 30 weeks until our Fall Forum, we’ll visit with digital health leaders who have made a very special impact on CHIME, including many of our Board Chairs. In this episode, Russ chats with CHIME’s 2017 Board Chair, Liz Johnson, MS, FAAN, LCHIME, FCHIME, CHCIO, RN-BC. Liz has given so much of herself and her knowledge through volunteerism and education to not just C...
May 18, 2022•36 min•Transcript available on Metacast Join us as we celebrate our three decades of dedication to digital health leadership with this special edition podcast! For each of the 30 weeks until our Fall Forum, we’ll visit with digital health leaders who have made a very special impact on CHIME, including many of our Board Chairs. In this episode, Russ chats with CHIME’s 2018 Board Chair, Cletis Earle, Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer, Penn State Health and Penn State College of Medicine. Earle discusses his work to pro...
May 10, 2022•31 min•Transcript available on Metacast Join us as we celebrate our three decades of dedication to digital health leadership with this special edition podcast! For each of the 30 weeks until our Fall Forum, we’ll visit with digital health leaders who have made a very special impact on CHIME, including many of our Board Chairs. In this episode, Russ chats with CHIME’s 2019 Board Chair, Dr. Shafiq Rab, MD, PhD, MPH, Chief Digital Officer, System CIO and EVP, Tufts Medicine Rab focuses on the power of CHIME to support and amplify the VOI...
May 03, 2022•28 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this podcast episode, Russ talks with Geoff Blanding, Executive Vice President, Optimum CareerPath and Implementation Services. Blanding discusses Optimum CareerPath’s partnership with CHIME to help high-aptitude, non-traditional students and workers train for careers in healthcare IT. As recruiting and retention become ever more challenging due to the tech talent war, Blanding encourages digital health leaders to change old ways of hiring and adopt a more growth-friendly approach. The ...
Apr 28, 2022•32 min•Transcript available on Metacast Join us as we celebrate our three decades of dedication to digital health leadership with this special edition podcast! For each of the 30 weeks until our Fall Forum, we’ll visit with a digital health leader who has made a very special impact on CHIME, including many of our Board Chairs. In this episode, Russ chats with CHIME’s 2020-2021 Board Chair John Kravitz, Corporate CIO, Geisinger Health. Kravitz focuses on LEADERSHIP, one of CHIME’s central values, noting the importance of communication ...
Apr 27, 2022•29 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this podcast episode, Russ chats with Dr. Zafar Chaudry, SVP, CDIO, Seattle Children’s , about the need for digital health leaders to share best practices for common scenarios and projects that characterize the journey to digital transformation. Chaudry reveals his phased process for engaging stakeholders in a major change such as an ERP implementation. He also discusses his goals for cloud migration that will allow his IT team to focus on strategic work by delegating some nuts-and-bolts main...
Apr 20, 2022•22 min•Transcript available on Metacast Join us as we celebrate our three decades of dedication to digital health leadership with this special edition podcast! For each of the 30 weeks until our Fall Forum, we’ll visit with a digital health leader who has made a very special impact on CHIME, including many of our Board Chairs! In this episode, Russ chats with CHIME’s current Board Chair Tanya Townsend, CHCIO, SVP and CIO, LCMC Health. Townsend highlights the COMMUNITY that has always been the hallmark of CHIME and describes how our co...
Apr 19, 2022•18 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this podcast episode, Russ chats with Theresa Meadows, SVP and CIO for Cook Children’s Health Care System, about the changing needs of children and teens through successive waves of the COVID pandemic. Meadows highlights the need for more mental health resources as young people continue to experience the mental and emotional aftereffects of illness and social distancing. She also gives expert perspective on cybersecurity policy in Washington and the current need for more DEI to add women and ...
Apr 13, 2022•20 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this podcast episode, Russ talks with two leaders from ELLKAY: Ajay Kapare, Chief Strategy & Marketing Officer, and Marc Probst, Chief Information Officer. Kapare and Probst discuss ELLKAY’s unique five-segment effort to unify healthcare IT with interoperability for ambulatory, hospitals, labs, payers and vendors. The leaders weigh in on whether federal policy will help set standards to the extent needed to meet the interoperability challenge. Kapare explains how a values-driven corporate...
Apr 07, 2022•19 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this podcast episode, Russ chats with Andy Crowder, SVP, CIAO, Atrium Health, about the mission that keeps his team motivated: closing the gap on healthcare inequities. Crowder shares his tips for recruiting and retaining talent, including giving employees choice and flexibility by focusing on outcomes, not on rigid schedules or dress codes. Crowder also discusses his team’s massive digital acceleration strategy and his five key principles for leadership in digital health. This episode is bro...
Apr 06, 2022•15 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this podcast episode, Russ chats with Laura Wilt, System Vice President and CIO, Ochsner Health, about how she holds herself accountable as a leader with the help of a personal coach. That self-insight assists Wilt as she works with her team to strengthen corporate culture to meet the needs of a post-pandemic workforce. Wilt discusses how to attract and retain talented staff by adapting working conditions, as talent becomes ever more important to help face new challenges such as rising cybers...
Mar 30, 2022•18 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this podcast episode, Russ talks with two leading innovators in the healthcare industry: Zane Burke, CEO of Quantum Health, and Paul Black, CEO of Allscripts. Burke and Black discuss their secrets of success in leadership as well as the immense opportunity available for companies that can step in now to unify systems and data for healthcare interoperability. Creating workplace conditions to win the talent war is key to organizational success. Burke and Black offer concrete suggestions for org...
Mar 28, 2022•30 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this podcast episode, Russ talks with Laura O’Toole about helpful strategies to win the “absolute talent war” that now grips the healthcare IT ecosystem. O’Toole suggests ways to retain staff by enabling them to do innovative and strategic work instead of staying in a reactive and tactical mode. She encourages digital health leaders to tap into a new generation’s desire for meaningful work that makes a difference. O’Toole applauds the industry's excitement about the Techquity event at V...
Feb 25, 2022•30 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this podcast episode, Russ talks with Ricky Caplin about the move to remote work in the healthcare industry and leadership attitudes that aided the success of the merger between The HCI Group and Tech Mahindra. Caplin highlights uplifting ways in which the digital revolution is bringing better healthcare for people around the world.
Jan 24, 2022•26 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this podcast episode, Russ chats with new CHIME Board Chair Tanya Townsend, CHCIO, SVP and CIO, LCMC Health, who highlights groundbreaking new events and offerings coming from CHIME in 2022. Townsend discusses ViVE, the new digital health event that gathers stellar leaders for creative connection in early March. CHIME University is launching new online graduate degrees at the master’s and doctorate level. And with CHIME’s 30th anniversary coming in 2022, Townsend reflects on all the support C...
Jan 19, 2022•20 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this podcast episode, Russ talks with Jeremy Brody about his work heading global strategy at a new unit of Cerner known as Cerner Enviza, which focuses on using advanced technology to support research in life sciences and therapeutics. Brody explains why this is a great time for innovation in healthcare, and how optimizing the use of longitudinal data is starting to drive research with tremendous benefits for patients. Brody also outlines three ways that digital health leaders can empower the...
Jan 18, 2022•28 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this podcast episode, Russ sits down for an end-of-year visit with CHIME Board Chair John Kravitz, CHCIO, Corporate CIO, Geisinger Health. Kravitz's outstanding leadership during his two-year tenure as chair led CHIME to new heights of success and service, despite the unprecedented challenges presented by the pandemic. He reflects on the greatest lessons and changes of the past 24 months and outlines future areas of opportunity for the industry. Kravitz also comments on plans for his new role...
Dec 27, 2021•29 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this podcast episode, John Kravitz, Chairman of the CHIME Board of Trustees and CIO of Geisinger Health, chats with Marc Potash, Founder and CEO, CERTIFY Global. John and Marc explore the challenges and potential of using facial recognition to confirm patient identity. Descriptions and real-life examples illustrate their discussions of increased accuracy, rapid workflow and efficiency, protecting patient data in the cloud, and using technology to provide concierge-style personal service for p...
Oct 14, 2021•37 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode, Russ talks with Mac McMillan about his recent return to helm CynergisTek as President and CEO once again. McMillan draws on his years of experience in the military, in government and as a cybersecurity expert to lay out his three principles for leadership: Mission, Service, and Integrity. He highlights the crucial need for healthcare organizations to shift their cybersecurity paradigm away from compliance and instead strategize for resilience against cyberattacks. McMillan encou...
Oct 12, 2021•38 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this podcast, Russ talks with Steven Martin about moving into the healthcare industry just at the onset of the pandemic, and how Change Healthcare worked to make data freely available to assist COVID research while protecting patient privacy. Martin highlights key elements in the ethical use of data, such as considering social determinants of health to identify true underlying causes of disease. Russ asks about the imminent “fourth industrial revolution” of the AI Age, and Martin outlines how...
Oct 05, 2021•28 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode, Sarah Richardson talks with Russ about her transition to work at Tivity Health, where her passion for wellness can fuse with her knowledge of digital healthcare on a mission to improve life for seniors. Richardson applauds a turn toward authenticity in corporate culture, as the stresses of COVID require us to be human, discard the façades, and find out how we are all really doing. She offers valuable tips on how to stay connected in virtual workspaces and how to get started on y...
Sep 28, 2021•31 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode, Aaron Miri returns to talk with Russ about the mysterious cliffhanger from the end of Episode 55. On the second day of his new job, Miri reveals that listening, empathy and authenticity will be his chief values for leading his new team through the transition. Miri also reflects on how CHIME Boot Camp mentors and a strong, collaborative community of peers have been key to his success and growth as a leader.
Sep 23, 2021•19 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode, Russ talks with William Hudson, who describes how his work on both the vendor and the provider sides of healthcare prepared him to listen and be a cross-pollinator in conversations now as a CIO working in digital transformation. Hudson explains how implementing video visits for palliative care 3 years before the pandemic was the best preparation for the sudden need for telehealth in 2020. He also outlines his team’s progress to a multi-cloud environment and discusses the culture...
Sep 17, 2021•31 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this podcast episode, Russ talks with Dr. Sean Kelly about his work on the CHIME Opioid Task Force, and why the task force is more important than ever as the pandemic increases addiction triggers and overdoses. Kelly also talks about the crucial role of digital identity in a rapidly changing healthcare world, then gives a backstage look at what it’s like to be part of the medical team for the Red Sox at Fenway Park.
Sep 16, 2021•31 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this podcast episode, Dick Flanigan talks with Russ about why “this is the decade we’ve all been waiting for” in healthcare as digital transformation opens up unprecedented possibilities. Flanigan describes the change in EMRs as they become a platform for dynamic innovation and outlines some of the measures that Cerner has taken to support its strong commitment to diversity and inclusion.
Sep 16, 2021•37 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode, Russ talks with Dr. Bill Feaster, who shares insights from his work in a pediatric hospital during the pandemic. Feaster discusses the need for more resources for the teen mental health crisis across the nation. He also explains the difference between his former position as CMIO and his current role as CHIO, underlining the need for CHIME to continue its work preparing future IT leaders for a new era in digital healthcare.
Sep 16, 2021•29 min•Transcript available on Metacast 
