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After stepping back from her post, Sue Schade has been fortunate to watch University Hospitals new CIO Joy Grosser take charge. Schade shares insights she learned during the transition. 

John Halamka, MD, recently started a process that some may consider regressive. He began deleting his social media accounts to improve the signal-to-noise ratio in his life.

In the next few weeks, she will try to share  as much knowledge and insight as she can.

The findings of the HIMSS Longitudinal Gender Compensation Assessment report take direct aim at the claim that, in health IT, "You've come a long way.

"You want the strongest, happiest, smartest people in your corner," according to Dana Alexander, former board chair, HIMSS North America.

I was fortunate to work with an excellent executive coach several years ago.

There are many pointed reasons why pay equity matters to Adam Bazer, a senior manager of health information systems at HIMSS.

Since HIMSS’s July 27 2016 release of the longitudinal gender compensation study in which we reported on a widening pay gap between men and women health IT workers, I’ve published a blog on what these facts tell us, and an overview of why pay gaps exist.

People often ask me how I find time to write a weekly blog with a big, busy CIO job.

“You need to go beyond puppies and rainbows.