CIO Podcast – Episode 6: Aaron Miri on CIO Leadership and the HITAC Committee

For the 6th episode of the CIO podcast hosted by Healthcare IT Today, we’re sitting down with Aaron Miri, CIO at The University of Texas at Austin, Dell Medical School and UT Health Austin.  Along with being a healthcare CIO, Miri also is Co-Chair of the HITAC Committee (Health Information Technology Advisory Committee) which advises ONC and HHS on a number of the most important health IT regulations and initiatives.

In this episode, Miri shares a lot of great insights into what’s happening in health IT and how he’s using that information as CIO.  Plus, he shares some of the leadership lessons he’s learned.  We also ask Miri to share why he’s so involved in the HITAC Committee and what that accomplishes for him, his organization, and for healthcare in general.  Finally, he offers some advice for new and up and coming CIOs.

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

  • What’s the biggest change that’s happening in health IT today? Why does it matter?
  • In your work as CIO, what is the accomplishment you’re most proud of?
  • If you could change one thing about your job as CIO, what would it be?
  • What’s something you’ve learned as CIO that you wish you’d learned earlier?
  • Why did you choose to participate on the HITAC committee and what do you see it accomplishing?
  • How would you describe where we’re at with healthcare interoperability? What more needs to be done?
  • What piece of advice would you give a new or up and coming CIO?

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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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