The following leaders have shown their abilities to leverage technology to improve patient care and achieve business objectives while preparing their organizations for the future.
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Kumar Chatani. Senior Vice President of IT and CIO of Mount Sinai Health System (New York City). Mr. Chatani brings more than 30 years of IT experience to his role as senior vice president of IT and CIO of Mount Sinai. Under his leadership, Mount Sinai received HIMSS' Enterprise Davies Award for excellence in health IT in 2012. Prior to his current position, he served as senior vice president of IT and CIO of The Mount Sinai Medical System. Before joining Mount Sinai, Mr. Chatani was CIO for the northwest region of Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente.
Daniel Drawbaugh. Senior Vice President and CIO of UPMC (Pittsburgh). Mr. Drawbaugh was named CIO of UPMC in 1996. Under his leadership, the health system has invested more than $1 billion in IT over the past five years, including the development of big data analytics and an extensive system for collecting and exchanging records across care settings. Prior to serving with UPMC, he spent time at Pittsburgh-based Shadyside Hospital, now UPMC Shadyside, as director of biomedical engineering.
Philip Fasano. Executive Vice President and CIO of Kaiser Permanente (Oakland, Calif.). As executive vice president and CIO of Kaiser Permanente, a role he has held since 2007, Mr. Fasano oversees IT for one of the nation's largest nonprofit health plans and healthcare providers. Under his leadership, the company has created tools and platforms to deliver smarter, more connected care.
John Halamka, MD. CIO of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and CIO and Dean for Technology at Harvard Medical School (Boston). Dr. Halamka began serving as CIO of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in 1998. He also served as CIO of Harvard Medical School from 2002 to 2012 and CIO of Harvard Clinical Research Institute from 2001 to 2007.A practicing clinician as well as a CIO, Dr. Halamka is deeply involved in investigating technologies that can be leveraged to improve patient care and clinical processes, such as BIDMC's recent pilot program involving Google Glass in the emergency department. In addition to his roles as CIO, Dr. Halamka is also chairman of the New England Health Electronic Data Interchange Network, CEO of regional health information organization MA-SHARE and chair of the U.S. Healthcare Information Technology Standards Panel.
Ed Marx. Senior Vice President and CIO of Texas Health Resources (Arlington). Mr. Marx has been the IT leader of the largest faith-based, nonprofit healthcare delivery system in the U.S. since 2010. Under his leadership, Texas Health Resources won 2013 HIMSS Enterprise Davies Award, which recognizes the use of health IT and EHRs to improve healthcare delivery and patient safety, and achieve a demonstrated return on investment. Additionally, the system's 14 hospitals are either at stage 6 or stage 7 on the HIMSS Analytics Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model. Prior to joining Texas Health, Mr. Marx was CIO of University Hospitals Health System of Cleveland.
Virginia A. McFerran. CIO of UCLA Health System and David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA (Los Angeles). Ms. McFerran was appointed CIO of UCLA Health System in 2009. She plays a vital role in the system's leadership team, collaboratively gaining buy-in for the overall IT strategic plan and operationalizing the plan with successful implementation. Prior to joining UCLA, Ms. McFerran served as CIO and department head at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City.
Patrick O'Hare. Senior Vice President and CIO of Spectrum Health (Grand Rapids, Mich.). Since 1997, Mr. O'Hare has served as senior vice president and CIO of Spectrum Health. He is also a founding board member and chair of Michigan Health Connect, a statewide health information exchange. Before joining Spectrum, Mr. O'Hare was the vice president of IT management at Trinity Health, now CHE Trinity Health, based in Livonia, Mich.
Mike Restuccia. Vice President and CIO of Penn Medicine (Philadelphia). Since joining Penn Medicine in 2008, Mr. Restuccia has been a leader in both implementing new technology and helping to ensure the health system and its patients reap the full benefits of any new technology. For example, he spearheaded an effort to use Penn Medicine's EHR to recruit more patients into clinical trials. Before coming to Penn Medicine, Mr. Restuccia was president of health IT consulting firm MedMatica Associates.
Sue Schade. CIO of University of Michigan Health System (Ann Arbor). Ms. Schade assumed her responsibilities as CIO of University of Michigan Health System in November 2012. Before then, she served as CIO of Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston for 12 years. There, she led implementation of the Balanced Scorecard initiative, which links quality outcomes to financial data.
Steven Smith. CIO of NorthShore University HealthSystem (Evanston, Ill.). Mr. Smith was named CIO of four-hospital NorthShore University HealthSystem in April 2012. Previously, he spent 12 years as chief technology officer for NorthShore. Mr. Smith was part of the team that oversaw NorthShore's integrated EMR implementation, and in 2009, NorthShore was among the first systems to receive recognition from HIMSS Analytics for stage 7 status.
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