Scottsdale Institute

Attendance at the CIO Summit is by invitation only. Contact us with any questions. Join us! Scottsdale Institute’s 2021 Virtual CIO Summit "Designing the Future, Defining the Boundaries," sponsored by Impact Advisors on Wednesday, May 5th from 10:00am – 2:00pm CT. This discussion-oriented Summit focuses on the most important challenges CIOs face as they leverage industry advancements and en...

The Scottsdale Institute convened 25 chief information officers for a CIO Virtual Summit on December 8, 2020, to discuss how a new social pact between health systems and the public is emerging as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, the economic downturn and the incoming administration in Washington, D.C. Key talking points included: “We saw a shift in being able to now leverage our own expertise,...

Is the future CIO the CEO─Chief Experience Officer─ or the CKO─Chief Keep-the-Lights-On Officer? How do consumers define High Availability? These and other topics were explored at the Scottsdale Institute’s 2019 CIO Summit sponsored by Impact Advisors, which convened 15 chief information officers (CIOs) and other IT executives from 14 health systems across the country October 23-24 in San ...

The Scottsdale Institute convened eight information technology executives in Chicago for the 2018 SI CIO Summit on June 6-7, 2018. Leaders gathered to share strategies, concerns and insights as we examined the Summit theme of “Innovation in Action,” with specific focus on technical innovations in healthcare, including Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML). Attendees repres...

"The New World of Healthcare IT" The Scottsdale Institute 2017 Chief Information Officers Fall Summit brought together seven CIO (and a CISO) thought leaders from prominent healthcare systems across the country to Chicago. What resulted was a lively discussion about the challenges today's healthcare CIOs face in their changing roles, IT integration and governance across the enterprise and measurin...

"EHR Value Realization - Rx for Success" The annual Scottsdale Institute 2017 Chief Information Officers Spring Summit sponsored by Impact Advisors gathered 13 CIO thought leaders from prominent healthcare systems across the country at the SI Annual Conference in April. What resulted was a lively discussion about the challenges today's healthcare CIOs face in deriving value from EHRs. Read EHR Va...

"Achieving Value-Based Payment Success: Implications for IT and the CIO" The 2016 Scottsdale Institute Chief Information Officer Fall Summit sponsored by Impact Advisors gathered nine CIO thought leaders from prominent healthcare systems across the country in Chicago on October 14, 2016. What resulted was a lively discussion about the challenges today's healthcare CIOs are facing as the scales tip...

"Creating Clinically Integrated Networks" Fourteen CIOs from leading health health systems convened in April 2016 during SI's Annual Conference to tackle the issue of clinically integrated networks. READ THE REPORT, Creating Clinically Integrated Networks: Challenges, Successes, Lessons Learned, from the summit, which was supported by Impact Advisors. See the Press Release From Healthcare Infor...

"The New World of the Health System CIO: Consumers, Consolidation and Crooks" CIOs from eight leading healthcare organizations convened in September 2015 for the annual Scottsdale Institute Fall CIO Summit. The resulting report, The New World of the Health System CIO: Consumers, Consolidation and Crooks, highlights many of the key challenges faced by today's healthcare CIOs and suggests some key ...

"Healthcare IT Optimization" Health Data Management publishes a SLIDESHOW with seven takeaways from the summit. CIOs of thirteen leading healthcare organizations convened in April 2015 during the annual Scottsdale Institute Spring Conference to discuss Healthcare IT Optimization. Read the report that highlights challenges faced by CIOs related to optimization and suggests strategies to maxi...