MedCity News January 24, 2021
Anuja Vaidya

In a wide-ranging interview, Mount Sinai Health System CIO Kristin Myers shared key lessons learned in 2020, plans for the year ahead and what she thinks a Biden presidency means for health IT policy.

Instilling a culture of resiliency in an organization may be its most important defence amid a crisis.

That’s according to Kristin Myers, executive vice president, chief information officer and dean for information technology at Mount Sinai Health System, who saw firsthand how important it was to have agile teams during the height of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Last April when New York City became the epicenter of the pandemic, Mount Sinai Health System found itself overwhelmed. Like other organizations in the city, the health system had to...

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