CIO Podcast – Episode 12: Sue Schade – Healthcare CIO Leadership, Innovation, and the Interim CIO

For the 12th episode of the CIO podcast hosted by Healthcare IT Today, we sat down with Sue Schade, Principal at StarBridge Advisors and Currently serving as Interim SVP and CIO at Boston Children’s Hospital.  In this episode Schade dives into the evolving role of the CIO in healthcare and how it has changed throughout her career.  Plus, she talks about how to create a culture of innovation at your organization and the role of CIO in the process.

Schade also shares insights that can help startups understand the best way to pitch CIOs.  She also shares what it’s like to be interim CIO and what a role like that can and can’t accomplish.  Finally, we dive into her experience as a female CIO and she offers some advice she’d give an aspiring CIO.

Here’s a look at the questions and topics we discuss on this episode:

  • How has the role of the CIO evolved? Where do you see it heading in the future?
  • Do you think the CIO should be driving the innovation? The IT staff should be driving innovation? The clinical staff? How do you look at enabling innovation as CIO?
  • What are some things a CIO can do to create a culture of innovation?
  • What do startups need to understand about the role of CIO and how can their pitches be more effective?
  • You’re currently interim CIO and have been interim previously, when does it make sense to have an interim CIO? What should the role of interim CIO be and not be?
  • As one of the early female healthcare CIOs, what’s been your experiences (good and bad) being a woman CIO?
  • Why aren’t there more women CIOs and what should be done so there are in the future?
  • What advice would you give an aspiring CIO?

Now, without further ado, we’re excited to share with you the next episode of the CIO Podcast by Healthcare IT Today.

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John Lynn

John Lynn is the Founder of HealthcareScene.com, a network of leading Healthcare IT resources. The flagship blog, Healthcare IT Today, contains over 13,000 articles with over half of the articles written by John. These EMR and Healthcare IT related articles have been viewed over 20 million times.

John manages Healthcare IT Central, the leading career Health IT job board. He also organizes the first of its kind conference and community focused on healthcare marketing, Healthcare and IT Marketing Conference, and a healthcare IT conference, EXPO.health, focused on practical healthcare IT innovation. John is an advisor to multiple healthcare IT companies. John is highly involved in social media, and in addition to his blogs can be found on Twitter: @techguy.

   

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