The 229 Podcast: CMIO 3.0 - The Role Nobody Trained You For with Veena Lingam

March 5, 2026: From EMR adoption to AI governance, the CMIO role has undergone three rapid transformations. Dr. Veena Lingam, ACMIO at Moffitt Cancer Center, has lived all of them. In this conversation with Bill Russell, Dr. Veena breaks down CMIO 1.0 (change management), 2.0 (data analytics), and the emerging 3.0 era: governing AI tools that health systems may have never paid close attention to. She also sounds the alarm on a growing informatics workforce shortage and the "informatics deserts" spreading across the country.

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Key Points:

• 04:43 CMIO 1.0 to 3.0

• 07:18 Skills for the AI Era

• 10:05 Veena’s Informatics Journey

• 18:24 AI Literacy and Workflow Fit



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