Hospital CIOs dealing with 'intense' landscape
November 5, 2014 6:00 am by Dan Verel
Interoperable EMRWith all the rapid change occurring within health IT — from Silicon Valley and tech jumping feet first into healthcare with promises of disruption to Meaningful Use and ICD-10 to interoperability – the role of hospital CIOs is increasingly resembling that of an embattled soldier.
So much so that Jim Turnbull, CIO for University of Utah Heatlth Care, has taken to using military terminology to describe his job — VUCA, short for volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity.
Turnbull tells the efficiently named CIO.com that things are “intense,” and for anyone who’s paid slight attention to healthcare, it’s not hard to figure out why. If the implementation of EHR systems and all the fun that comes with that wasn’t enough, the entire landscape shifted dramatically within a short three years.
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