Letter from the Editor

It’s Only a Point: What the Knicks, Federer, and Brady Know About Coming Back

The Knicks were down 27 when Anthony Guerra almost went to bed. His son talked him into staying up for the greatest comeback in NBA Finals history. What he saw became a lesson in resilience, and the simple power of refusing to quit.


Interviews

Rady Children’s Fernando Says Operational Engagement Is the Key to Cyber Resilience

Sahan Fernando, CISO, Rady Children's Hospital-San Diego and a Health-ISAC board member, explains why deep operational engagement is the foundation of cyber resilience, from listening to clinicians and earning executive time to reading shadow IT as a signal of unmet needs.

Moffitt’s Lindsay-Wood Says Enterprise Imaging Consolidation Started With One Problem That Wouldn’t Scale

Beth Lindsay-Wood, Chief Informatics and Technology Officer at Moffitt Cancer Center, explains how a breast imaging system that would not scale launched a three-year enterprise imaging consolidation onto one cloud-based platform.

Webinar Recap

Build Is Back: Panelists Say AI Tools Are Reopening the Make-vs-Buy Equation

John Halamka, MD, president of Mayo Clinic Platform, and Melek Somai, MD, MPH, VP and chief technology and product officer at Inception Health, the innovation arm of Froedtert ThedaCare Health, explain why AI-assisted development is reopening the build option and how it reshapes leverage with EHR vendors.

News

H-ISAC Flags CalPhishing Threat Exploiting Calendar Auto-Processing to Harvest Login Credentials

H-ISAC has flagged CalPhishing, an evasive technique that embeds malicious links in calendar invites to bypass email security and steal session tokens that defeat MFA. The bulletin details how the attack persists after the email is deleted and lays out the defenses health systems need to close the calendar gap.

Gartner Trends Signal a Governance Gap as AI Agents Take On Decisions

Gartner's 2026 Data & Analytics trends point to a widening governance gap as AI agents take on autonomous decisions. The report urges decision governance, AI governance platforms, and agentic data management for health system data leaders.

Articles & Columns

The Swirl Is Optional: Replacing Six Meetings With 40 Minutes and a Chat Window

Edward Hospital Naperville emergency physician and Epic consultant John Lee, MD, writes that an AI chat tool compressed a multi-week order-set process into forty minutes by turning scattered clinical inputs into structured architecture.

When Clinical AI Tools Lose on Accuracy, Does Trust Still Win?

Daniel Yang, MD, VP of AI & Emerging Technologies at Kaiser Permanente, examines a Nature Medicine study where frontier models bested OpenEvidence and UpToDate Expert AI across evaluations. He surfaces the resulting methodological dispute and a deeper question: whether accuracy alone, or verifiable citations, guideline concordance, and workflow integration, drives clinician trust.

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When to Pull the Plug: Strategies for Building an Application Decommissioning Discipline (7/15)

  • Zafar Chaudry, MD, Former SVP – Chief Digital Officer & Chief AI and Information Officer, Seattle Children's
  • Adar Palis, SVP of Clinical & Revenue Cycle Applications, Providence
  • Juan Rojas, MD, Associate CMIO, Rush University Medical Center


Building AI Literacy Across the Health System Workforce (8/4)

  • Ilo Romero, CHCIO, VP/Associate CIO, WVU Medicine

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Leaning Into Internal Development: Expanding the Build Option for New Application Requests (6/16)

  • John Halamka, MD, President, Mayo Clinic Platform
  • Melek Somai, MD, MPH, VP, Chief Technology & Product Officer, Inception Health – The Innovation Arm of Froedtert ThedaCare Health


Governing AI Data Flows: Strategies for Securely Enabling Clinicians (Sponsored by Netskope)

  • Anahi Santiago, CISO, ChristianaCare
  • Krista Arndt, Associate CISO, St. Luke’s University Health Network
  • Antonio Davis, Director-Head of Information Security (CISO), Northeast Georgia Health System
  • Robert Butler, Director, Information Security, Netskope


Optimizing Patient Throughput: Technology Strategies for Discharge Efficiency – Sponsored by iHarbor, the University of Maryland Medical Systems's Innovation Center

  • Sonney Sapra, Chief Information and Technology Officer, UVA Health 
  • Juan Rojas, MD, MS, Associate CMIO, Rush University Medical Center
  • Warren D'Souza, SVP/Chief Innovation Officer, University of Maryland Medical System

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New YouTube Shorts

AI's Biggest Problem Isn't AI | Halamka, Mayo #HealthcareAI #DigitalHealth #healthsystemcio

John Halamka, MD, President, Mayo Clinic Platform


The Imaging Problem Nobody Fixed | Lindsay-Wood #healthsystemCIO #EnterpriseImaging #HealthcareIT

Beth Lindsay-Wood, Chief Informatics & Technology Officer, Moffitt Cancer Center


Medical Evidence Doubles Every 73 Days | Kos, Heidi #healthsystemCIO #HealthcareAI #DigitalHealth

Simon Kos, MD, Chief Medical Officer, Heidi Health


EVP of Clinical Continuity | Walders #CyberResilience #BusinessContinuity #healthsystemCIO

William Walders, EVP/Chief Digital & Information Officer, The Joint Commission

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