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Collaboration Roundtable: Working to Get Past Analysis Paralysis

By: Beth Walsh

Healthcare organizations are feeling the push to implement and optimize health IT systems and tools, but how is that best achieved? If no one is willing to take responsibility for making the hard decisions, how does anything get done? Three CMIOs share their thoughts on getting past analysis paralysis and moving on to effective collaboration.

Roundtable Participants Benjamin Alexander, MD,CMIO of WakeMed Health & Hospitals, Raleigh, N.C. Howard Landa, MD,CMIO of Alameda County Medical Center, Alameda, Calif. Richard Schreiber, MD,CMIO of Holy Spirit Hospital, Camp Hill, Penn.

What is your current governance structure surrounding EHRs and other health IT and the associated culture change?

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What is your current governance structure surrounding EHRs and other health IT and the associated culture change?