News Summary

• Deepti Pandita, MD, CMIO & VP of Clinical Informatics, UCI Health, outlines a pragmatic playbook for health systems that want measurable outcomes.
• She says governance must be multi-stakeholder by design; end users, data scientists, and ethics expertise need seats at the table from intake through implementation.
• She recommends time-boxed experimentation with explicit go/no-go gates, resisting endless tweaks that consume resources without moving KPIs.
• On culture, the view is evolutionary, not revolutionary.