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43 vancements at Tomah Memorial Hospital, empowering patients to access their medical information online in early 2018 and playing a key role in implementing the hospital's new EHR in 2017. She over- saw almost two years of preparation for the $3 million EHR replace- ment process, which involved training more than 300 hospital staff members on the new system. Josef Spencer. CIO and Senior Vice President of Information Ser- vices at Wise Health System (Decatur, Texas). Mr. Spencer oversees the IT department for Wise Health System, which covers 11 counties in Texas and has more than 90 ambulatory locations. Mr. Spencer has previous experience as a site CIO for McKesson at Grand Riv- er Hospital, a 567-bed hospital in Canada, and CIO of the Medical University of Ohio in Toledo. He is a certified project management professional from the Project Management Institute and previously served as president of the organization's healthcare chapter. Brian Sterud. CIO of Faith Regional Health Services (Norfolk, Neb.). Mr. Sterud served as Brookings (S.D.) Health System's di- rector of information management for four years before becoming Faith Regional Health Services' CIO in 2012. Leveraging his prior experience as a network analyst, data systems engineer and remote systems engineer and consultant, Mr. Sterud has helped Faith Re- gional Health Services achieve stage 6 on the HIMSS EMR adoption model and deploy a virtual health application to ensure patients' ex- pectations are met. Jordan Tannenbaum, MD. Vice President, CIO and CMIO of Saint Peter's Healthcare (New Brunswick, N.J.). Dr. Tannenbaum has more than 30 years of experience in healthcare, including a background in clinical informatics. In his current role as vice pres- ident, CIO and CMIO of Saint Peter's Healthcare, Dr. Tannenbaum supervized an EMR implementation on the inpatient side as well as the installation of an artificial intelligence product designed to help identify patients at high risk for readmission and extended length of stay. He is also responsible for the system's technology operations and focuses on optimizing its EHR as well as internal communica- tions and patient engagement technologies. Brian Tew. Vice President of Professional Services and CIO of Greater Hudson Valley Health System (Middletown, N.Y.). Before leading Greater Hudson Valley Health System's IT, communica- tions, professional services and ancillary systems, Mr. Tew managed numerous departments as CIO and vice president of operations for Catholic Medical Center in Manchester, N.H. Now, Mr. Tew over- sees technology implementation for Greater Hudson Valley Health System Medical Group; Harris, N.Y.-based Catskill Regional Med- ical Center; and Middletown, N.Y.-based Orange Regional Med- ical Center. Greater Hudson achieved both HIMSS stage 7 adop- tion model and the HealthCare's Most Wired distinction in 2016. Grant Tillett. CIO of Prairie Lakes Healthcare System (Water- town, S.D.). Mr. Tillett was tasked with providing strategic over- sight for Prairie Lakes Healthcare System's IT processes, including the EHR, when he joined the organization in 2015. To prepare for CMS' Merit-based Incentive Payment System reporting in 2018, Prairie Lakes merged the EHRs for its hospital and dermatology clinic and used a web-based portal to facilitate real-time data shar- ing for the other specialty clinics' claims data. Keith Van Camp. Vice President of IT at St. Dominic Hospital (Jackson, Miss.). As vice president of IT, Mr. Van Camp has success- fully positioned St. Dominic Hospital at the center of a telestroke network, which was launched in 2012. He also expanded the hos- pital's telehealth platform to provide behavioral health services. Under Mr. Van Camp's leadership, St. Dominic Hospital became a HIMSS Stage 6 organization and earned the HealthCare's Most Wired distinction in 2016. Kwi Vollhardt. Vice President of Information Systems at Knox Community Hospital (Mount Vernon, Ohio). Ms. Vollhardt over- saw the implementation of Knox Community Hospital's EHR and enterprise documentation management system in June 2012, a pro- cess that was part of a $21 million modernization project. With an MBA in her toolbelt, she has directed the hospital's computer-relat- ed processes since 2004. Mark Waind. CIO of Altru Health System (Grand Forks, N.D.). Mr. Waind was named CIO of Altru Health System in 2015, after a nine-year tenure as the organization's administrative director of information services. He became a Certified Professional in Health Information Management & Systems before leading Altru Health System to earn the HealthCare's Most Wired distinction from 2016- 18, as well as HIMSS Analytics stage 7 revalidation in 2018. Shawn Weldin. Director of IT at Sabetha Community Hospital (Kan.). In his 12th year serving as Sabetha Community Hospital's IT director, Mr. Weldin oversees all technology across its hospital, clinic and home health facilities. Mr. Weldin is president-elect and vice president of the HIMSS Kansas chapter's board of directors and was previously the organization's sponsorship co-chair. John Wilcox. Vice President, Information Technology of Morris (Ill.) Hospital & Healthcare Centers. Mr. Wilcox served as interim CIO for Washington, D.C.-based United Medical Center and CIO for West Plains, Mo.-based Ozarks Medical Center before he was installed as Morris Hospital & Healthcare Centers' technology chief. He is tasked with planning and executing IT initiatives across the organization, which encompasses the 89-bed Morris Hospital, 1,300 employees and 200-plus physicians. Jason Yaworsky. Senior Vice President and CIO of Upper Allegh- eny Health System (Olean, N.Y.). Since becoming Upper Allegheny Health System's senior vice president and CIO in 2009, Mr. Yawor- sky has led the organization's EHR implementation, computerized physicians' order entry, updated digital clinical imaging and cre- ated a patient portal. Under his direction, the system received the HealthCare's Most Wired designation for two years straight. Prior to these achievements, Mr. Yaworsky was IT director at Olean (N.Y.) 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