Convening the Right People to Address the Right Issues

About Executive Affinity Groups

SI Executive Affinity Groups convene executives of like titles and responsibilities to share best practices and lessons learned in addressing the issues of the day. Currently, Executive Affinity Groups convene via Dialogues, Summits, Roundtables, and Site Visits. Read our Overview.

Chief Information Officers

At the heart of SI since its creation, CIOs drive innovation and transformation in healthcare. In their quickly emerging roles as strategic thinkers, collaborators and leaders of positive change, the CIO group facilitates conversation, ideas and strategies toward strengthening healthcare.

Chief Information Security Officers

CISOs share best practices in risk management and thwarting the escalating use of ransomware and other cyber threats.

Chief Medical Informatics Officers

As digital-health leaders, CMIOs continue to address clinician burnout by reducing documentation, eliminating alert fatigue and making the EHR more user-friendly.

Chief Nursing Informatics Officers

Often working collaboratively with CMIOs, CNIOs support nurses—the largest group of EHR end-users—in optimizing the EHR, reducing cognitive burden and enhancing clinical workflow.

Chief Technology Officers/VP Apps

These professionals share ownership of the health system’s emerging digital platform and ecosystem of apps that support the digitally-enabled, consumer-centered and equitable health system of the future.

Analytics

This group leads the transformation to a data-driven health system, including effective governance, data integrity, interoperability, equity and data literacy alongside artificial intelligence, machine learning and robotic process automation.

Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence (AI) Executive Affinity Group for CAIOs and other professionals responsible for researching, procuring, implementing, utilizing and governing AI advancements across their health systems.

Employee Health

Tackling the health and wellbeing of the healthcare workforce (especially key post-pandemic), these Members discuss the creation of strategic frameworks and concrete, tactical initiatives to holistically address recruitment and retention; the Great Resignation, staff shortages and burnout; and the increasing competition for talent.

Innovation

Chief Innovation/Transformation Officers share best practices in adopting a culture of innovation and in operationalizing innovation in the enterprise as it moves to a digitally-enabled, consumer-centered model.

Health Equity

Chief Community Health Officers and other executives accountable for Health Equity activities collaborate on a data-driven approach to improving the health and wellbeing of the individual, community and populations they serve.

Telehealth

In the wake of widespread, COVID-driven adoption of telehealth and virtual care, this group shares best practices and policy considerations in what has become a key element in an emerging new care model.

IT Business Operations

These professionals support C-Suite execs and handle challenges around budgets, FTEs, contracts and vendor relations. And as IT Business Operations is being tasked to do more with less, these SI Member professionals are turning to each other for input, insights and lessons learned to focus on supporting IT-enabled health and care.

Ad Hoc Queries

Our entire membership acts as an Executive Affinity Group when it comes to Ad Hoc Queries! As posed by an individual or SI Member organization, such queries can initiate invaluable email discussions around hot-topic questions, offering an asynchronous tool for finding answers to even the most clinical or technical questions. Share your ideas below!