The following hospital and health system chief information officer moves were reported in 2021.
- Adam Buckley, MD, was appointed interim CIO of Farmington, Conn.-based UConn Health.
- Terri Couts, RN, was named senior vice president and CIO of Sayre, Pa.-based Guthrie Clinic.
- Mark Combs was appointed CIO of Morgantown, W.Va.-based Mon Health System.
- Jeff Gautney was named vice president and CIO at Chicago-based Rush University Medical Center.
- Kristopher Kusche was appointed vice president and CIO of Albany (N.Y) Med.
- Christopher Longhurst, MD, CIO for University of California San Diego Health, was promoted to CMO and chief digital officer.
- Thomas Marlow Jr. was named CIO of Dallas-based Southwestern Health Resources.
- Aaron Miri was named senior vice president and chief digital and information officer at Jacksonville, Fla.-based Baptist Health.
- Jane Moran was named the first chief information and digital officer for Boston-based Mass General Brigham.
- Michael Pfeffer, MD, was named CIO of Palo Alto, Calif.-based Stanford Health Care.
- Chuck Podesta was appointed CIO of Reno, Nev.-based Renown Health.
- Edmund Siy has been named Flemington, N.J.-based Hunterdon Healthcare's CIO.
- Dennis Sutterfield was appointed CIO at SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University in New York City.
- Janet L.D. Vogel was named acting CIO of HHS.
- Hank Capps, MD, was named executive vice president and chief information and digital officer of Marietta, Ga.-based Wellstar Health System.
- Diane Comer was chosen as chief information technology officer of Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente.
- Ron Fuschillo was named senior vice president and CIO of Memphis, Tenn.-based Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare.
- Bradford Newton was named CIO of Robbinsdale, Minn.-based North Memorial Health.
- Preston Simons was named CIO of Google's San Francisco-based sister company Verily Life Sciences