"Do everything you do really well," advises David Lundal, vice president and regional CIO at Dean Health System in Madison, Wis. That way, when you're undertaking one of today's great healthcare IT challenges, "the organization trusts you, in IT, and has confidence you're going to be able to pull it off." That would be good advice at any time, but I was particularly asking him and other technology leaders I spoke with for advice they would give other CIOs for my recent story Healthcare IT In The Obamacare Era. In it, I looked at the rise of accountable care organizations, the broader population health management trend, and the regulatory pressures hitting healthcare IT organizations from all sides this year.
