Healthy Outcomes: A Baker Tilly Podcast

The state of IT in healthcare systems

Episode Summary

Ed Ricks, a managing director with Baker Tilly’s healthcare information technology consulting group, discusses the current state of IT in healthcare.

Episode Notes

On this episode of Healthy Outcomes, our host Mark Ross interviews Ed Ricks, a director in Baker Tilly’s Healthcare Solutions Practice. Ed is a former Healthcare System CIO and COO. Together, they discussed several topics related to the overall healthcare environment with a significant lean towards IT related matters.  

Specific topics of discussion include: 

• The impact of recent ransomware and information security breaches related to healthcare provider organizations.  
• How healthcare systems are responding to decrease the impact of these events.  
• The current state of healthcare IT 
• How healthcare systems can optimize their IT environment 
• Healthcare M&A activity and if it hast resulted in improved efficiencies 
• What Ed misses and doesn’t miss about being in the role of CIO at a healthcare system organization. 

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