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All right. Before I get into the article , I want to ask for your help. I have a survey out on our website this week. health.com/cio-survey. Okay. Three questions survey. Won't take you long it's. Open-ended no required fields whatsoever. You can go out and just look at it.

If you want to, don't have to fill anything out. The three questions have to do with the, what are I'm trying to find out from a healthcare CIO perspective, what are the skills, knowledge, and proficiency that the role needs? So we're looking at their knowledge and experience their demonstrated proficiency and the skills that they should bring to the table.

Those are the three open-ended questions. What skills are most important for the healthcare CIO to possess? What are the areas of proficiency? You would want a healthcare CIO to have, what are the key things that healthcare CIO needs to know? That's knowledge and experience. You could put your name in there and email address.

But as I said before, you're not signing up for anything. And in addition to that, it's a. We're not going to use your information for anything other than to help us to tailor our content over here at this week health. So this would be really helpful if you're sitting in the CIO chair extremely helpful.

If you are watching a CIO, do their job and are thinking, man, I really wish that they would know or understand this. It doesn't feel like they're technical enough or understand the business enough or whatever. This is your chance to provide some feedback and to shape the things that we're doing over here at this week.

So this is Ray Wang with constellation research. Many CEOs are already familiar with this persona, according to Wang. And trust. Transitioning into it will be easy. These chief infrastructure officers focus on cost reduction controlling 65% to 70% of the overall budget. Most projects prioritize keeping the lights on and managing legacy systems.

These infrastructure officers tend to focus on the technology side and internal facing activities. According to the report. When you say, as the chief infrastructure officer persona. Is becoming a core competency, but less and less attention is being paid to it. That is it's melding into the background. And it's just, it's keeping the lights on.

It's just expected and it's supposed to happen. Now on a day like today. When we're talking about, we just had to change healthcare for each and now we're having issues at Ascension. One of the large cell systems in the country. This, I think was melding into the background and I think it just keeps popping up. And becoming more and more important.

I know a healthcare CIO who are, have really globbed onto the chief infrastructure officer role and they're good at it. And they see their role as making sure that they run the most efficient, effective, secure, reliable system that there is. And they spend an awful lot of time there. So chief infrastructure officers, one of the personas, number two, chief integration officer. Yeah.

These are the people. I think how we would think about them today are probably chief application officers. If I thought about it, these are the people that are thinking about the flow of data and knowledge and getting the right information into the workflow at the right time, so that it creates a better experience for. What better outcomes in healthcare, but a better experience for our consumer and those kinds of things.

The report says this persona tends to focus on the business side and internally facing activities and strives. To appropriately connect the right data to the right person at the right time. On the right interface, very similar to the integration officer, as many of the infrastructure functions are being outsourced or handled in the cloud environments.

This persona of chief intelligence officer is growing into one of the most essential by the way. This is your chief AI officer. This is what they're saying now. This is the person who's okay. How do we take these reasoning engines? And how do we program them effectively to program out the hallucinations and those kinds of things.

Make them more. More reliable, more deterministic, and then bring them in. Not only those kinds of tools, but agents and other things that we've been talking about. Chief intelligence officers. Are probably what we would call the chief AI officer today. Again, pretty. It's interesting. I talked to some people that are like, we will never do that. And I talked to other people who have actually posted the job title already for their health system. And I'm also seeing a bunch of it outside of the industry.

Again. They're not talking about healthcare. They're talking about. Business in general, the chief innovation officer is probably the toughest persona that CEO's. We'll have difficulty adopting why it says this requires a good understanding of business strategy, as well as keeping up to date with a large amount of disruptive technology.

Oftentimes these technologies are not covered in the market and require early adopter teams. As for core skills, Wang notes, that next generation CEO's will need the ability to one quickly assess which disruptive technologies. Show promise for their organizations design the next gen business models, along with that and fund innovation through legacy optimization. All right.

I've seen think we've seen them move away from it. So both have really happened. And you can you can view that in the industry. So why talk about this four personas of the next generation CIO. Because we want to be training the next generation of health leaders at this week health. And we're trying to figure out what are the personas that are going to be needed moving forward.

What are the skills. What are w. What things does the next generation need to have in order to be effective? As we move forward. So that's where we need your help. This week called.com/cio-survey. It would be really helpful if you filled that out, gave us some feedback on that. You can hit that site today.

It is out there. It is life waiting for you. To provide your feedback. So really appreciate you doing that. And thanks for taking the trip down memory lane. On the CIO personas. I have actually created some other CIO personas that I'm working on. But again, I got into it and I thought. Man.

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