BAPTIST HEALTH OF ARKANSAS
“ At every level , it ’ s important that we have that alignment with the operational side , that we have a presence in all the hospital operations and strategy conversations ”
MICHAEL ELLEY CIO ,
BAPTIST HEALTH OF ARKANSAS
“ One of the first things I arranged upon my arrival was to establish specific IT leaders within the operational leadership teams of our hospitals and physician groups . These are not only relaying information to those operational areas about what ' s going on from an IT perspective , but that information is coming back to us about directional and strategic changes currently occurring or planned to occur on the operational side . As a result , I can say confidently that we now have a really solid alignment between those operational areas and IT .
“ Much of the evolution and change in the organisation is now necessarily going to be IT-driven , whether it ' s a simple question of hardware support software or something as broad as the revolution in imaging capabilities .
“ At every level , it ’ s important that we have that alignment with the operational side , that we have a presence in all the hospital operations and strategy conversations . Indeed , everything from the different service lines to our clinical space . I think we ’ ve done a nice job of getting our senior leadership aligned !”
Looks like it ’ s onwards and upwards for Baptist Health of Arkansas from here on out .
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