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Mark L. Andersen
Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer
Yale New Haven Health System
Mark L. Andersen is
the Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer of Yale New Haven
Health System. Mr. Andersen received his Masters of Science degree in Hospital
Administration from The Ohio State University and his Masters of Science degree
in Industrial Engineering from the University of Missouri-Columbia. Previously,
he was Vice President for Management Systems and Technology for
Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center in New York City and has prior experience
in the development of multi-hospital systems in several regional and national
organizations Mr. Andersen is a Diplomat of ACHE, Fellow of HIMSS and a former
member of the Board of the College of Healthcare Information Management
Executives (CHIME).
Holt Anderson
Executive Director
North Carolina Healthcare Information & Communications Alliance,
Inc
Holt Anderson
is Executive Director of the North Carolina Healthcare Information &
Communications Alliance, Inc. (NCHICA), a private, nonprofit consortium of
healthcare providers, payers, corporate partners, professional associations and
government agencies formed in 1994 with the mission of improving healthcare in
NC by accelerating the adoption of information technology.
Holt has served or is serving on the Steering Committee or Advisory Council for the:
- Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN) Phase 1 Architecture Prototype for the IBM contract with the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC)
- RTI International "Privacy and Security Solutions for Interoperable Health Information Exchange" Technical Advisory Panel for the contract with AHRQ and ONC.
- North Carolina Health Information Security and Privacy Collaboration (NC HISPC) Project Executive for the contract with RTI International
- National Governors Association (NGA) State Alliance for e-Health Task Force on Health Information Protection
- North Carolina Center for Nursing Advisory Council
- American Academy of Nursing - RWJF Technology Targets Project
Holt serves on the Executive and Steering Committees and a Co-chair of the Regional Affiliates Work Group for WEDI; a member of the Working Group for Connecting Communities for the eHealth Initiative. He is a consultant to the Quality of Care and Performance Improvement Committee of the North Carolina Medical Society. Holt served on the Expert Resource Panel for an Information and Assistance Study for the US Administration on Aging (AoA).
He previously has served on the Steering Committee for the NC Immunization Registry and was a Governor's appointee to the Southern Technology Council and the Southern Governors' Association Task Force on Medical Technology. He served on the Social & Ethical Issues Task Force for North Carolina Vision 2030 and a North Carolina General Assembly Legislative Study Commission for Digitization of the State Archives.
Jeff Bell
Interim Chief Technology Officer
Chief Enterprise Architect
In his role as interim
Chief Technology Officer and Chief Enterprise Architect for Mercy Information
Services Division (MISD) since June 2006, Jeff Bell oversees departments
charged with upgrades to Mercy's existing data center, as well as process
improvements and high-availability initiatives. MISD was formed in 2004 to
serve the Sisters of Mercy Health System's growing System Office in St. Louis
as well as the System's nine strategic service units in Missouri, Arkansas,
Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas. MISD provides comprehensive IT services and
support through the efforts of over 500 co-workers. MISD will also play an
integral role in Mercy's business transformation efforts in the next five
years, including implementation of enterprise clinical and revenue
applications.
Mr. Bell formerly served as Chief Project Officer for Mercy's Genesis Project, an initiative that will transform work processes and technology across the organization. He has more than 25 years of experience in healthcare providing patient care, and managing large system implementations and directing IT services.
Mr. Bell resides in Pacific, Missouri, with his wife and two children.
Rosanne J. Carey
Senior Director, Corporate Telecommunications, Trinity Information
Services
Trinity Health
With more than 20 years
experience in telecommunications, Rosanne Carey is recognized as an industry
expert by most major equipment manufacturers and network carriers. She has held
technical and managerial positions with Chrysler Defense Engineering, General
Dynamics, and AlliedSignal. Ms. Carey joined Trinity Health, Novi, Mich., in
1996, accepting the challenge of consolidating telecommunications across the
system and integrating it with Trinity Health's IS division, Trinity
Information Services. With her convergence strategy defined and published, Ms.
Carey's primary focus is finalizing and launching the corporate IP migration
plan.
Ms. Carey is responsible for enterprise wide planning, finance and operations for telecommunications throughout Trinity Information Services. Ms. Carey is a frequent guest speaker on the application of telecommunications technology in healthcare, deployment strategies, and telecommunications business and expense management. Ms. Carey's group works closely with the health system's medical centers to support local operations and business initiatives while aligning technology with the corporate vision and overall strategic goals.
With hospitals in seven states, Trinity Health is one of the largest Catholic health care systems in the country. Based in Novi, Mich., the system operates 44 hospitals, 384 outpatient facilities, numerous long-term care facilities, and home health offices and hospice programs.
Ms. Carey is a member of the International Nortel Networks Users Association (INNUA) and the International Alliance of Avaya Users (InAAU).
George S. Conklin
Senior Vice President for Information Management
CHRISTUS Health
George S. Conklin is
Senior Vice President for Information Management at CHRISTUS Health, one of the
nation's largest Catholic healthcare delivery systems. He is responsible for
all aspects of the delivery of information management, biomedical and
communications systems services, supporting CHRISTUS Health's delivery network
and ministries across four states, in two countries and in more than 300
locations. Additionally, as a member of CHRISTUS Health's senior leadership
team, he participates in setting short and long term strategic and tactical
directions for the system at large. He is involved as a member of senior
leadership in setting long term system directions based on assessments of
future social, technical, environmental, economic and political factors.
Mr. Conklin was awarded the Smithsonian Institution Face of Innovation award in 1997 that recognized applications of computers to medical decision support at Integris Health in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. These achievements have been in-cluded in the permanent research collection of the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History. Additionally, CHRISTUS Health was awarded one of HHN's "Most Wireless" Awards in 2002.
Mr. Conklin writes and lectures frequently in the areas of health care informatics, systems implementation, ROI, clinical quality, and management of complicated information systems and environments.
Bradley Dick
Chief Information Officer
Resurgens Orthopedics
Bradley Dick is
Chief Information Officer and Security Officer to Resurgens Orthopaedics.
Bradley's role involves strategic planning, budget and staff management,
overseeing project implementation and managing ongoing support of the network,
desktops, and business applications. With more than a decade of experience in
the field of information technology he has consulted with clients in the
hospitality, healthcare, telecommunications, and professional services
industries. Bradley's experience in building cohesive teams enables him to take
on projects and execute them at an expedited pace with a high level of positive
outcomes. With an enthusiasm which has been described as intoxicating, Bradley
has brought about significant change in perception of what technology means to
Resurgens and has been instrumental in maintaining Resurgens' position as the
premiere orthopaedic practice in Georgia
John Delano
Vice President and Chief Information Officer
INTEGRIS Health
John Delano is the Vice
President and Chief Information Officer for INTEGRIS Health. With hospitals,
rehabilitation centers, physician clinics, mental health facilities and home
health agencies located throughout the state, INTEGRIS is Oklahoma's largest
not-for-profit healthcare organization. John has fifteen years of IT
experience, the past five at INTEGRIS where he has served as the Information
Security Officer and most recently the CIO. John holds a masters degree in IT
Management from Oklahoma State University and is an active member of CHIME,
HIMSS, ISACA and (ISC).
Dave Dully
Chief Technology Office
Baptist Health
Mr. Dully has a
technology leadership background in health care. He overseas all technology
infrastructure operations and a variety of clinical, financial, and operational
systems support activities for Baptist Health, the largest health care provider
organization in northeast Florida.
Mr. Dully's recent accomplishments include overseeing the architecture and deployment of a state of the art technology infrastructure, successfully implemented to support the operations of a new paperless, digital acute care hospitals in Jacksonville, Florida.
Prior to joining Baptist Health six years ago, Mr. Dully held technical and IT leadership positions in the healthcare insurance and the acute care hospital industry. Mr. Dully has been quoted in industry publications on a variety of healthcare information technology topics, including healthcare applications for mobile computing, maximizing computing systems availability, disaster recovery, and others. Mr. Dully is a graduate of the University of West Florida with 20-plus years professional experience in the information technology field.
Deborah Gash
Vice President and Chief Information Officer
St. Luke's Health System
Deborah Gash is the Vice
President and CIO of St. Luke's Health System. Deborah Gash began her career in
health care managing physician offices and patient accounting. In 1989 she
relocated to Kansas City and joined Baird, Kurtz and Dobson, CPA as a health
care consultant. During this time she conducted operational assessments for
hospitals and physician practices and conducted speaking engagements educating
health care professionals on compliance and regulatory topics.
Debe joined Saint Luke's Health System in 1992. During her tenure at SLHS she has been responsible for physician services for Saint Luke's Medical Group, served as project manager and director of application development in Information Services. Debe was recently named the Vice President and CIO for Saint Luke's Health System. She is responsible for developing and implementing Information Technology (IT) strategies for the health system; updating the necessary standards, infrastructure, and security policies to protect the information assets of Saint Luke's Health System; ensuring quality IT support for the health system; and providing guidance in cost effective clinical and business solutions.
Debe is a graduate of the University of Missouri with a BS degree in Health Services Management and Masters Degree in Business Administration. She is a currently President for the Heart of America HIMSS Chapter, President of Insight, and an active member of ACHE, CHIME, HIMSS national, and ACMPE. Debe participates in the McKesson Technical Advisory Committee, the KC IT Leadership Exchange, and CIOC of CHIME. She holds the following certifications: CMPE and CPHIMS.
David House
Vice President and Chief Information Officer
Baptist Health
David House joined
Baptist Health as the Director of Information Systems in 1991. Prior to then,
David worked as an employee of IBM in a number of industries, including
healthcare. In 1999 David was promoted to his current position as Vice
President and CIO of Baptist Health.
Baptist Health is Arkansas' most comprehensive healthcare system with more than 120 facilities - including major medical centers, family clinics, therapy and wellness centers. Baptist Health has been named to the American Hospital Association's 100 "Most Wired" Hospitals four out of the last six years. Baptist has a history of being innovative in many areas including information technology. In 1974 Baptist installed one of the first online order entry systems in the country. More recently Baptist has been a leader in the adoption of handheld technology by physicians and applications such as the electronic intensive care unit (EICU), Medical records imaging, PACS, and Vocera.
David is frequently quoted in a number or healthcare IT publications and most recently published an article titled "Investing in Handhelds" in Advance for Health Information Executives. David is listed in the International Who's Who of Professionals and United Who's Who. He is a member of the College of Healthcare Information Executives, the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society, and the American Academy of Medical Administrators. He has served on a number of healthcare company customer advisory boards and is the current chair of the Arkansas VHA CIO Council.
Jackie Lucas
Vice President and Chief Information Officer
Baptist Healthcare System
Jackie Lucas
joined the Information Services Department of Baptist Healthcare System in
1993. She was named Vice President and Chief Information Officer in December of
2006 after serving in the position as interim since June of 2006. Previously,
she was Corporate Director of Strategic Implementations and Vendor Relationship
Management, responsible for implementation of strategic applications, process
improvement, project management and managing primary vendor relationships. Ms.
Lucas was previously Director of Clinical and Financial Systems, Interfaces and
Databases. She has worked with most areas of information systems including
Telecommunications during her tenure at Baptist Healthcare System.
From 1984 to 1993, Ms. Lucas was employed by Le Bonheur Health System in Memphis, Tennessee, where she held a number of positions, including Director of Telecommunications and Network Services, Assistant to the Chief Operating Officer, Service Line Manager and Management Analyst.
Ms. Lucas earned an MBA degree, with a concentration in Accounting Information Systems, from the University of Memphis in Memphis, Tennessee. She also graduated with a BBA degree in Accounting from Lambuth College in Jackson, Tennessee.
Ms. Lucas has spoken nationally on Program and Project Management. She is a member of the American College of Healthcare Executives, Healthcare Information Management Systems Society, and the Junior League of Louisville (JLL). She has served as a Co-Chair on the Louisville Race for the Cure, a fundraiser for breast cancer, and in other leadership positions with the JLL.
Edward W. Marx
Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer
Texas Health Resourcs
Edward W. Marx is senior vice president and chief information officer for Texas Health Resouces (THR).
Marx’s primary responsibilities include assessing current and future technology needs in support of developing and implementing a strategy and roadmap for a rational approach to information technology that aligns THR systems, projects and technology support with clinical and business needs.
Prior to THR, Ed worked in a variety of IT leadership roles with organizations such as University Hospitals and HCA. Concurrently, Ed served 15 years in the Army Reserve, first as a Combat Medic, then as a Combat Engineer Officer.
Ed earned a MS in Business and a BS in Psychology, both from Colorado State University. A Fellow of the Healthcare Information Management Systems Society (HIMSS) and member of the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME), Ed is active in both organizations speaking at events across the country.
Ed enjoys ballroom dancing with his wife, chasing his son in competitive triathlons (including Ironman) and watching his daughter reach black belt in Tae Kwon Do. Ed and his wife are also active in their local church and community
Paul Peabody
Vice President and Chief Information Officer
William Beaumont Hospital
Paul Peabody is Vice
President and Chief Information Officer of William Beaumont Hospital. For the
past twenty years he has been responsible for the Information Systems at
Beaumont as well as the Records Management and Printing Departments. His
experience and primary focus is in the area of Health Care Information
management. He received a Bachelor of Science Degree in Health Care
Administration from the University of Michigan.
Paul is a co-chair of MHMIS, serves on the GDAHC executive committee, and is on the SEMHC Data Task Force Committee. He is active in the Society for Information Management and is a past president of the Detroit Chapter of SIM.
William Phillips
Vice President and Chief Information Officer
University Health System-San Antonio, TX
William Phillips is
the Vice President/CIO for University Health System in San Antonio, Texas.
Responsibilities include direction and oversight for the organization's
Information Technology division including system operations, applications,
strategy, planning and integration for University Hospital and its community
clinics.
Richard J. Rogers
Sr. Vice President, Chief Information Officer
Health First
Rich Rogers joined Health First, a regional not-for-profit, integrated health care organization just as the move toward an integrated delivery model was initiated. Health First, located on the east coast of central Florida, is comprised of Holmes Regional Medical Center, a 528-bed tertiary medical center, Cape Canaveral Hospital, a 150-bed community hospital, Palm Bay Community Hospital, Health First Physicians; a 90+ physician group, a 62,000 member Health Plan, and more than 20 off-site facilities, representing services from home health to skilled nursing facilities.
As an officer of the corporation reporting directly to the President and CEO, Rich's responsibilities include the planning, development, implementation, maintenance and enhancement of all information systems, network & telecommunications services, client support, information security, data center operations, Clinical Engineering, Plant Operations, Environmental Services, Construction, Safety and Security, Business Planning and Development, and Health Information Management activities for this $1 billion corporation. Rich participates in the strategic planning for the corporation and ensures that information technology plans are in alignment with corporate goals and objectives. The CIO has responsibility for an operating budget of $23 million, a capital budget of $13 million, and 246 employees supporting hospital facilities, medical practices, managed care company, outpatient services, joint ventures, and affiliate companies.
Rich holds a Master's of Business Administration from Pace University, New York, New York. Prior to joining Health First, Rich served three years as Vice President of Information Systems at a Michigan health system and ten years with IBM Corporation.
He is an adjunct professor of Health Services Administration, Rollins College, Melbourne, Florida, and is a member of the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives.
Rich, his wife Susan and their son Matt make their home in Indialantic, Florida, where Rich coaches a high school varsity lacrosse team and youth football.
Thomas W. Smith
Chief Information Officer
Evanston Northwestern Healthcare
Thomas W. Smith is the
Chief Information Officer for Evanston Northwestern Healthcare in Evanston,
IL., an integrated delivery network with three hospitals, more than 500
employed physicians, home care services, an IPA and a research institute. Mr.
Smith has more than thirty years of hospital administration and information
systems management experience, including 20 years as a CIO at two different
multi-hospital corporations. His previous experience also includes eight years
of hospital administration and 8 years of hospital consulting and
implementation activities. Mr. Smith has a bachelor's degree in Engineering
from the University of Michigan and an MBA from Western Michigan University. He
is a member of ACHE, CHIME and HIMSS.
Lac V. Tran
Senior Vice President, Chief Information Officer, Associate Dean
Rush University Medical Center
Lac V. Tran is a Senior
Vice President, Chief Information Officer, and Associate Dean at Rush
University Medical Center. Lac has spent 20 years as CIO at large healthcare
institutions, including University of Dayton Research Institute, Wilford Hall
Medical Center, State University of New York at Stony Brook Health Sciences and
Medical Center, Harvard Medical School Boston Children's Hospital, and Baylor
College of Medicine Methodist HealthCare Systems.
One of the pioneers in networking image processing (especially in medical and aerospace medicine), his security and networking expertise is exemplified through his role in the development of the Medical Casualty Tracking Systems; this Project was nominated for the Commander-in-Chief's Excellence Award. His image processing has been recognized throughout the Refractive Laser Research Community.
He is one of the pioneers in applying the optical card and smart card technology in healthcare, designing/developing the first Healthcare Clinical Repository Data Warehouse Packages, in advocating the Medical Informatics Program, in implementing Web page technology for Healthcare content and literatures (80's).
He is a member of numerous professional organizations, including:
- American Association of Information Professional
- Harvard Medical School IT Strategic Steering Committee
- College of the Healthcare Information Management Executives
- Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society
- International Society for Optical Engineers
- The Advisory Board
- Healthcare Illinois Chief Information Officer Exchange Program
He is degreed in Chemical Engineering and in Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Systems Design. He is also a distinguished graduate of MIT Sloan of Information Technology Management for Senior Executives and the Federal Executives Institute.
Lac has received numerous prestigious awards, including:
- Commander-in-Chief Excellence Award Recognition for Special Projects
- Air Education and Training Command for the National Casualty Tracking System
- Outstanding CIO of the year
He has numerous publications and speeches nationally and internationally, and is an active participant in community activities, including:
- Member of Save Our Children from Abuse and Neglect (SOCAN)
- Advisor for Intercultural Development Research Association (Desegregation Assistance Center)
- Technical assistance for the New York Megan's Law Advocacy Group
Lynn Harold Vogel, Ph. D.
Vice President and Chief Information Officer
The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
Lynn Harold Vogel,
Ph.D., is Vice President and Chief Information Officer at The University of
Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas, a $2B+ clinical, research
and teaching institution that is the world's largest and highest rated facility
devoted to the care and cure of cancer. As the senior IT executive managing a
500+ person IT organization, he is leading the in-house development of M. D.
Anderson's Electronic Medical Record (EMR) with a major focus on the
integration of research and clinical data. Dr. Vogel is also Adjunct Assistant
Professor in the Department of Biomedical Informatics at Columbia University in
New York City.
Previously, Dr. Vogel was Vice President, Healthlink, Inc., in Houston, Texas, where he was a leader on the Advisory Services team. He has also served as Vice-President, Information Services, New York-Presbyterian Healthcare System in New York City, responsible for coordinating information services planning and management for the more than 30 hospitals and other health care facilities which collectively form the nation's largest academic medical center-based health system. Dr. Vogel was previously Vice President and Chief Information Officer, Mount Sinai Medical Center, in New York City. He was also formerly at The University of Chicago Hospitals as Chief Information Officer, and as Director, Medical Center Information Services, as Associate Director in the Department of Finance, and as the Senior Executive responsible for Departments of Pharmacy, Clinical and Surgical Laboratories, Radiology and Medical Records.
Dr. Vogel has been a frequent presenter at regional and national conferences, including most recently "Using IT Governance to Increase IT Investment Value" at the 2005 IT Governance for Healthcare Conference; at the 2005 HIMSS Annual Conference he gave two presentations: "Structure Follows Strategy: Building the Customer-Driven IT Organization", and "IT Investment: Can IT's Value be Enhanced?" (with Leon Leach). Previously he presented at the Summer 2004 HIMSS Conference, and at the August 2004 Regional HIMSS Chapter meeting in Atlanta, Georgia, on his award-winning Journal of Health Information Management article on the return on investment (ROI) from healthcare IT. He also presented the Inaugural Grand Rounds Lecture at the University of Kansas Center for Health Care Informatics, on "From Bench to Bedside: What is the Role of Information Technology?" in October 2004.
Dr. Vogel's recent publications include: "5 Rules for Effective IT Investment Planning", Journal of Healthcare Financial Management, December 2004; "Managing Your IT Investment to Achieve ROI", Journal of Healthcare Financial Management, January 2005 (with Ben Melson and Randy Thomas). Dr. Vogel's article, "Finding Value from Information Technology Investments: Exploring the Elusive ROI in Healthcare", Journal of Health Information Management, Fall 2003, was named "2003 Article of the Year" by the Healthcare Management and Information Systems Society (HIMSS); he has also published ";Will Decision Support in Medications Order Entry Save Money? A Return on Investment Analysis of the Case of the Hong Kong Hospital Authority", in Proceedings of the American Medical Informatics Association, Fall 2003 (with Kin Wah Fung, M.D.); and is the lead author for an upcoming chapter, "Management of Information in Healthcare Organizations", in Biomedical Informatics: Computer Applications in Health Care and Biomedicine, 3rd ed., publication scheduled for Spring 2006, with Leslie Pereault. Two additional articles are in process: "Using IT Governance to Increase Investment Value" (with Leon Leach), for Advance for Health Information Executives, and "The Virtual Clinical Data Repository: A Working Model using Web Services to Access Clinical Data Stored in Diverse Data Base Structures", with Kevin McEnery, M.D.
Dr. Vogel's education at the bachelor's, masters and doctoral level was completed at The University of Chicago, where he also served as a faculty member for twelve years. For the past five years, he has taught a highly popular course in the Department of Biomedical Informatics at Columbia University, entitled "Economics of Informatics: Cost and Investment Issues in Healthcare Information Technology". He has also lectured in Columbia's Biomedical Informatics Executive Program, in the introductory Biomedical Informatics course, and in Columbia University's Graduate School of Business.
Dr. Vogel is a charter member of the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) and is currently a member and Fellow of the Healthcare Information Management Systems Society (HIMSS) and a member of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA).
