Becker's Hospital Review

Save the date! Becker's Hospital Review 6th Annual Meeting — May 7-9, 2015 — Chicago. Please call 800-417-2035 to register. 8 100 Hospital and Health System CIOs to Know Becker's Hospital Review is pleased to present the 2015 edition of "100 hospital and health system CIOs to know." This list includes CIOs and other executive-level information technology leaders from hospitals and health systems across the country. They have dem- onstrated excellence in leadership by tackling the challenging world of health IT and innovating dur- ing a time of change in the industry. Leaders were selected through an editorial review process. Nominations were considered. Note: Leaders cannot pay for inclusion on this list. They are presented in alphabetical order. Roni Amiel. CIO and CISO of Blythedale Chil- dren's Hospital (Valhalla, N.Y.). Mr. Amiel has served in his current position at Blythedale Chil- dren's since June 2011. He previously was CIO and CISO of the office of the Chief Medical Examiner of the City of New York's Health Department. In addition to overseeing information technology at Blythedale Children's, Mr. Amiel also writes about information technology and leadership, contribut- ing pieces to publications like Executive Insight, For the Record and CIO Review. Jay Anderson. Senior Vice President of Perfor- mance Improvement and CIO of Northwestern Memorial HealthCare (Chicago). Mr. Anderson has helped develop quality, patient safety and infor- mation management services at NMHC, the par- ent company of Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Northwestern Memorial Foundation, Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital, Northwestern Medicine Delnor Hospital and Northwestern Medi- cine Lake Forest Hospital. He has previous leader- ship experience with NMHC, serving as the vice president of quality and operations at Northwest- ern Memorial Hospital. Before coming to NMHC, Mr. Anderson served as an officer in the Navy's Nuclear Power Program and at General Electric. He holds an MBA from the University of Chicago. Mary Alice Annecharico, RN. Senior Vice Presi- dent and CIO of Henry Ford Health System (De- troit). Ms. Annecharico has served as senior vice president and CIO of Henry Ford Health System since December 2011. Prior to joining Henry Ford, she served as CIO of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in Philadelphia and University Hospitals in Cleveland. Ms. Annecharico also serves as editor for the peer-reviewed Journal of Health In- formation Management. Pamela Arora. Senior Vice President and CIO of Children's Health System of Texas (Dallas). Before assuming her duties as vice president and CIO of Children's Health System of Texas, formerly Chil- dren's Medical Center Dallas, Ms. Arora served as CIO of Worcester, Mass.-based UMass Memo- rial Health Care and Perot Systems, an IT services provider that was acquired by Dell in 2009. Under her leadership, in 2010 Children's Health System of Texas achieved Stage 7 of HIMSS EMR Adoption Model, earned the HIMSS Davies Award of Excel- lence in 2013 for quality and performance improve- ment and received the AHIMA Grace Award for excellence in health information management. Ad- ditionally, Children's was the first pediatric hospital to connect to the North Texas Accountable Health- care Partnership HIE. Daniel Barchi. CIO of Yale-New Haven (Conn.) Health System. Mr. Barchi has served as CIO of Yale- New Haven Health System, which consists of three hospitals and a medical group, since 2010. Before then, he served as senior vice president and CIO of Carilion Health System in Roanoke, Va. Mr. Barchi is also a member of the Military Health System advisory council to assist Epic and IBM should they receive the contract to design and develop the Department of De- fense's upgraded EHR and information systems. Mark D. Barner. Senior Vice President and CIO of Ascension Health and CEO of Ascension Health Information Services (St. Louis). Mr. Barner has served as CIO of Ascension since 2008. Addition- ally, he oversees Ascension Health Information Services, a wholly owned subsidiary of Ascension Health dedicated to health IT for the system's 28 health ministries. He previously served as CIO of Austin, Texas-based Seton Healthcare Family and oversaw government contracts with Plano, Texas- based Electronic Data Systems for 19 years. Tom Barnett. Vice President of Health IT for NorthShore University HealthSystem (Skokie, Ill.). Since June 2013, Mr. Barnett has served as NorthShore University HealthSystem's vice presi- dent of healthcare information technology. Mr. Barnett has a 17-year-long background in informa- tion technology. Prior to joining NorthShore Uni- versity HealthSystem, he served as vice president and executive director of application services and IT operations at Henry Ford Health System in De- troit and program director for Affiliated Computer Services in Dallas. Jayne Bassler. Senior Vice President and CIO of Florida Hospital (Orlando). Ms. Bassler joined Florida Hospital in January 2000 as assistant vice president of clinical performance improvement, earning a series of progressive promotions until she was appointed to her current role as senior vice president and CIO. Under her leadership, Florida Hospital has been named "Most Wired" three years in a row by Hospital and Health Networks and has reached Stage 6 status on the HIMSS Analytics EMR Adoption Model for four hospitals. Prior to Florida Hospital, Ms. Bassler worked for Volusia Medical Center in Orange City, Fla., as director of professional services. 100 Hospital and Health System CIOs to Know By Shannon Barnet, Emily Rappleye and Tamara Rosin

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