Focus on analytics — “Information is what you need to focus on the running the business”

Enterprise 5-year IT strategic plan

“Each year you have to reassess it and be willing to move and change.”

Communication strategy

Timing of MU & Epic go-live

ICD-10 – “America is not prepared for it.”

Source: Ken Deans, VP & CIO, Chesapeake Regional Medical Center, Chapter 2 on healthsystemcio.com - healthsystemCIO.com is the sole online-only publication dedicated to exclusively and comprehensively serving the information needs of healthcare CIOs.