Becker's Healthcare October 3, 2022
When companies consider cost-cutting measures, it often results in layoffs, but health system CIOs are looking inward at their IT vendors, contracts and partnerships to assess different ways to optimize their workforce, which can save their health systems money in the long run.
Becker’s asked five health system CIOs: What is one thing you’re working on to cut costs or rethink how your organization operates?
Note: Their responses have been lightly edited for clarity and length.
Jeri Koester. CIO of Marshfield (Wis.) Clinic Health System: It’s been important to me that my teams have the ability to directly understand and manage the costs of IT with their business partners.
We have strong vendor management, software asset management, portfolio management,...