Managing the full gamut of IT functions from bench to bedside for cancer research and patient care is no small feat for Lynn Vogel, vice president and chief information offer of The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas. How could Vogel’s interesting background in driving social welfare and policy issues in the 60s and 70s help him with the most important aspect of his work in IT today? What's his secret to balancing the needs and requirements of multiple customers while at the same time retaining a clear commitment to the corporate bottom line?

Vogel talks to Enterprise Leadership.com and tells us about some major initiatives he undertook to improve the more than 600-member IT organization, from reorganization to IT governance. Learn about the biggest barriers to his effectiveness today, the IT priorities for 2006 and beyond, and Vogel's thoughts regarding the most critical elements to the success of tomorrow’s CIO.

Bio

Lynn Harold Vogel, Ph.D., is vice president and chief information officer at The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas, a $2B clinical, research and teaching institution that is the world’s largest and highest rated facility devoted to the cure and care of cancer. As the senior IT executive managing a more-than 600 person IT organization, he is leading the in-house development of M.D. Anderson’s Electronic Medical Record (EMR) with a major focus on the integration of research and clinical data.

Resources

"Finding Value from Information Technology Investments: Exploring the  Elusive ROI in Healthcare," Journal of Health Information Management,  Fall 2003. (Named “2003 Article of the Year” by the Healthcare Management and  Information Systems Society, in January 2004.)

Production Credits

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