CIO Podcast - Episode 27: Health IT Talent Shortage and Equity with Michael Saad

For the 27th episode of the CIO podcast hosted by Healthcare IT Today, we sat down with Michael Saad, Senior VP and CIO at The University of Tennessee Medical Center.  In this episode we learn about Saad’s experience outside of healthcare and what we can learn from that background.  Plus, we dive into a number of workforce related challenges including: the health IT talent shortage, gender inequality in tech, and what Saad’s doing to address workforce challenges in his organization.  He also shares why he decided to start his blog (CIO Reflections) and the best career advice he’s ever been given.

Here’s a look at the questions and topics we discuss on this episode:

• Your background isn’t all healthcare, but includes working at Fortune 100 and startups. What perspective does that background offer you as CIO? What can healthcare learn from those other industries?
• What can be done to address the talent shortage we’re seeing in healthcare IT? What are you doing as CIO?
• How about the gender inequality in tech? What can we do to make sure we have diverse voices in health IT?
• Besides workforce challenges, what’s your biggest challenge today and what are you doing to address it?
• You have a blog, CIOReflections.com. Why did you decide to start blogging?
• What’s the best piece of career advice you’ve ever been given?

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