Good Samaritan Hospital CIO Charles Christian talks about what it takes to successfully market IT projects to both the executive suite and the user community.

Rick Schooler, CIO at Orlando Health, talks about the challenges, and the benefits, of implementing an enterprise data warehouse in a health care organization.

Adam Wright, Research Scientist, Brigham and Women's Hospital, explains how important the human element is in ensuring the success of clinical decision support systems.

Dr. John Riggs, Medical Director of Clinical Information Systems at the Harris County Hospital Districts, talks about the challenges of integrating imaging applications into EHRs.

Deven McGraw, Director of the Health Privacy Project at the Center for Democracy and Technology, talks about the recent trends in protecting patient privacy.

Mercy Health CIO William Showalter explains how important his disaster planning was in bringing back St. John's Regional Medical Center after it was severely damaged by a powerful tornado.

IBM Chief Medical Scientist Martin Kohn, MD, explains how Watson is being used to support clinical decisions and make health care more efficient.

Claire McCarthy talks about the massive health system's efforts to roll out its change management methodology across the enterprise.

Michael Moschella talks about the hospital's data mining efforts with a public/private consortium to get actionable outcomes research.

Heather Haugen talks about her organization's research on electronic health records .. and how implementation is not adoption.

Thomas Yackel, M.D., discusses what meaningful use means going forward and the challenges of care coordination.

Brian Comp talks about the struggles to manage a petabyte of data and how new data storage techniques can help ease the pain.

Ed Marx defines "innovation" and urges the HIT community to get disruptive.

Rasu Shrestha discusses "meaningful" connectivity and the problems associated with trying to tie together a massive health I.T. ecosystem.

John Bender. M.D., discusses how the practice switched EHRs to keep up with the accelerating pace of population management and provider accountability.

Dr. Ari Robicsek from NorthShore University HealthSystem explains how data analytics is being applied during admissions and patient stays to eliminate MRSAs and other acquired infections. To read more about NorthShore's and other provider's efforts to use analytics to support true "health intelligence," click here

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Larry Garber, Medical Director for Informatics at Fallon Clinic in Worchester, Mass., talks about the challenges of implementing a comprehensive EMR system and linking up with a health information exchange.

Charles E. Christian, CIO of Good Samaritan Hospital in Vincennes, Ind., and former chairman of HIMSS, offers his insights on the steps health care organizations should take when eying grants under the federal government’s stimulus package.