Healthcare IT News August 13, 2025
Bill Siwicki

Ismelda Garza, CIO at Cuero Regional Hospital, is fresh off of a Meditech deployment and now fully into the optimization phase. She discusses the importance of working with clinicians and consultants, keeping momentum up after go-live, and much more.

Most healthcare CIOs and other hospital and health system IT leaders greet implementing a new electronic health record system with a degree of dread. It’s far from a simple task. But while most of these executives are up to the job, it’s still always worth learning new tips and tricks for EHR switchovers.

Ismelda Garza is CIO at Cuero Regional Hospital, a 49-bed general acute care facility in Cuero, Texas. She has performed a number of EHR implementations in her career...

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