Keith Jennings. CIO of Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. “I’ve learned to see the value of having a long-term plan. You need a two-, three-, even five-year plan, even if you think it’s going to change. If you don’t have a plan, there’s nothing for anyone around you to react to, there’s no milestone for staff or an icebreaker with other leaders… Going forward, more and more of the clinical activity will be IT-based. By no means is IT most important, but the things we do are the underlying foundation for many of the things the hospital needs to do. That’s why we need to get our roadmap out in front of clinical and administrative leaders so they can react to it and no one is caught off guard.”
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