"HIT Leader 3.0 Cornerstone: Partnering for Success" A critical factor to any leader’s success is relationships, both with organizational relationships and external relationships. The future of the HIT leadership hinges on the ability to build these trusted and successful relationships. Future HIT Leaders must hone their skills in relationship building, especially in tough situations, as their role shifts from technology management to relationship management. Attendees of this session will explore strategies and examples to embrace the HIT leadership role evolution through relationship building. Learning Objectives: Discuss approaches the HIT leadership can use in building trusted relationships, enhance effective communication styles and embrace effectively ways to adapt and respond to rapid change. Discuss strategies to embrace the changing HIT leadership role and shifting dialogues away from technology management to organizational strategic business strategies and relationship management. Discuss challenges and issues with the evolving HIT Leader role and ways to anticipate change as well as effectively manage the relationships involved

1. A CHIME Leadership Education and Development Forum in collaboration with iHT2
HIT Leader 3.0 Cornerstone:
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Partnering for Success
● Richard Ong, CIO, St. Vincent Health System ●
● Cherie Pardue, DCIO, Adventist HealthCare ●
#LEAD15

2. Brain Storming
your Network

3. Stories from the
Trenches
VA HIMSS/ PMI SIG
Cherie
SVP& Chief Quality/
Integrity Officer
Care Excellence
Cherie
Hybrid Partnership
w/ Compliance
Richard
Interdepartmental
Alignment
Richard
Vendor Partnerships
Richard and Cherie

4. At a Glance:
Healthcare IT Industry Forces & Partnerships
Patients
Vendor Partners
Intradepartmental & Interdepartmental
Provider : Provider
Payor : Provider
Meaningful
Use
HIEs
Infrastructure
ICD-10
Mobile /
BYOD
HIPAA
Compliance
Healthcare
Reform
Patient
Engagement
Telemedicine
Wireless
Networking
Analytics
The Cloud
Adapted from:
http://www.healthcareitconnect.com/

5. Today’s Partnerships
“…partnerships will no longer be a market
differentiator, but the norm” (PWC)
wisc.edu
For the Improvement of
Patient Care & Outcomes

6. Partnership Development Concepts
• Defining a Partnership - agreement,
cooperation, shared risk, mutual
benefit.
• Partnering & Business Alignment –
Becoming a Better Partner
• CIOs as Partnership Leaders –
Developing IT Staff
• Managing Partnerships – Budget,
Disputes, Performance
• Partnership Dynamics: Power, Trust,
Politics, Interdependencies
• Positive Partnership Traits (Gartner):
communication, accountability, value
and engagement.
Questions:
• Are you sharing the plan “Big Picture”?
• Are you allocating resources correctly?
• Have you or your team demonstrated
above average results?
• Are you good to work with,
approachable and fair?
• Are there incentives involved?
• Do you share the same vision, values or
culture?
• Can you create a healthy balance given
the demands on IT? How?

7. Q & A
● Richard Ong, CIO, St. Vincent Health System ●
rong@svhs.org
● Cherie Pardue, DCIO, Adventist HealthCare ●
cpardue@adventisthealthcare.com
A CHIME Leadership Education and Development Forum in collaboration with iHT2
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