Episode Description
Healthcare organizations continue to invest in data platforms, integration tools, and AI initiatives, yet many still cannot move trusted information across the enterprise or turn it into timely decisions. Ted Lindsley, CEO of CognomIQ, joins Chris Hutchins in Dallas to examine why healthcare data integration keeps breaking down — and what leaders should demand from the systems and vendors responsible for fixing it.
Chapters:
00:00 – The Signal Room opening and welcome from Dallas
01:06 – How Ted Lindsley arrived in healthcare
01:51 – Why he avoided healthcare for 30 years
03:49 – The payroll test for broken business processes
07:06 – EHR constraints, bolt-on tools, and vendor lock-in
08:49 – How organizations become accustomed to a broken system
11:44 – Predictive analytics before the AI conversation
13:48 – Buy results, not hopes and promises
14:31 – Guarantees, architecture, and vendor sprawl
19:58 – Relationships, trust, and long health-technology sales cycles
21:14 – What happens the first time a clinician touches a tool
22:42 – The standard for near-real-time healthcare data
27:37 – The cost and consequences of legacy decisions
31:11 – Why proofs of concept do not become operational capabilities
34:36 – Acquisitions, standardization, and governance
35:50 – Accountability when technology fails to deliver
37:56 – What finance teams can teach healthcare about standardization
40:59 – Dashboard sprawl and the burden placed on physicians
42:53 – The closing test: doing it because it is the right thing
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Guest: Ted Lindsley — linkedin.com/in/tedlindsleydfw
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About The Signal Room: The Signal Room is a podcast and communications platform exploring leadership, ethics, and innovation in healthcare and artificial intelligence. Hosted by Christopher Hutchins, Founder and CEO of Hutchins Data Strategy Consultants. Leadership, ethics, and innovation, amplified.
Website: https://www.hutchinsdatastrategy.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chutchins-healthcare/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ChrisHutchinsAi
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