Becker's Healthcare February 12, 2020
While the number of chief innovation officers and chief digital officers in hospitals and health systems will surely continue to skyrocket in the years to come, they may very well be overshadowed by exponential growth in the realm of the chief data officer.
Indeed, most leaders and experts in the space asked by Becker’s Hospital Review to weigh in on the future makeup of healthcare organizations’ IT C-suites agreed on the rising need for a data-focused executive.
Chief data officers
Cris Ross, CIO of Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic, for one, predicted that leadership jobs of the future — and not only those in the IT field — “will increasingly be focused around the work of understanding where data are, and...