HealthsystemCIO.com January 20, 2022
For someone who has been in health IT leadership roles since the 1990s, as Mike Minear has, it takes much more than a shiny toy to impress them. “I don’t get excited about whiz-bang technology,” said Minear, who has held the CIO role at Lehigh Valley Health Network for six years. “I get excited about what it can do for patients and clinicians.”
Not only should it help make the clinician’s job easier – and the patient experience better – but they should feel “it was the right thing to do,” and should have input into what’s being implemented. It’s that philosophy that has created a “deep partnership” at the 10-hospital organization, and what he hopes will propel them going...