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One health system CIO's vision for harnessing AI with cybersecurity

Wednesday, April 15, 2026Healthcare IT News

Nadin Knippschild, DNP, RN, is assistant vice president and CIO at Hickory, North Carolina-based Catawba Valley Health System, a small, not-for-profit independent healthcare organization. As such, she believes her health system's foremost health IT priority is to responsibly harness advanced technologies like artificial intelligence while maintaining unwavering cybersecurity – especially as the organization migrates more data and services to the cloud.

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