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The mission of the chief information officer is shifting quickly toward innovation, transformation and revenue generation, with organizations leaning on these execs more for their sociology and business school training than IT chops.

The Connect Care Pro program aims to reduce costs and length of stay for patients by extending medical services outside traditional hospital walls.

Taken together they represent an essential and very different way of thinking about the healthcare business model that exists today.

Like so many IT projects, it starts with culture, according to David Chou, CIO of Children’s Mercy.