Becker's Hospital Review

14 Mr. Feola is responsible for leading the IT division. He joined the hospital in 2008 and has more than 25 years of IT and leadership experience. He previously served as senior vice president of IT and information security officer of Bethlehem, Pa.-based KNBT Bank. Mr. Feola also has experience in leadership positions at Federated Department Stores and Paine Webber. Dave Fiser. Vice President and CIO of Cleveland Clinic Akron (Ohio) General. In 2009, Mr. Fiser assumed the role of vice president and CIO of Akron General, responsible for the hospital's IT department. He maintained his leadership role aer Cleveland Clinic acquired the hospital in 2015 and continues to head the hospital's technology and innovation efforts. Mr. Fiser is a member of HIMSS and CHIME, and under his leadership the hospital earned Hospital & Health Networks' Health Care's Most Wired award mul- tiple times. Rick Frederick. CIO of Cottage Hospital (Woodsville, N.H.). Cottage Hospital named Mr. Frederick CIO in 2014, a promotion from his former position as director of the hospital's IT department. Cottage Hospital be- came one of eight critical access hospitals to attest to meaningful use stage 2 during the first qualifying period in 2014, due in large part to Mr. Frederick's efforts as director of IT. e 25-bed institution employs around 250 individ- uals and has 37 medical providers on staff. Renee Fosberg. CIO of Emerson Hospital (Concord, Mass.). As CIO of Emerson Hospital, Ms. Fosberg is involved in the hospital's information technology department and efforts. Prior to stepping into her current role, Ms. Fosberg was senior director of applications, where she was instrumen- tal in efforts to develop a health information exchange across the hospital's many affiliated physician organizations, which were operating under sepa- rate EHRs. Under her leadership, the hospital achieved recognition as one of Hospitals & Health Networks' Health Care's Most Wired hospitals in 2016. Prior to joining Emerson, Ms. Fosberg was applications manager at Bos- ton-based Caritas Christi Health Care. Shirley Gabriel. Vice President of Information Systems and CIO of Uni- versity Health Care System (Augusta, Ga.). Ms. Gabriel joined University Health Care System in 2015 and currently serves as vice president of in- formation systems and CIO. She has keen expertise in health IT and reve- nue cycle management in large, complex academic medical centers as well as integrated healthcare delivery networks and community hospitals. Her previous experience includes four years as CIO of the University of Arizona Health Network and six yeas as the administrative director of IT and services for Summa Health System in Akron, Ohio. Roland Garcia. Senior Vice President and CIO of Baptist Health (Jack- sonville, Fla.). Mr. Garcia has established plans and direction for Baptist Health technology investments since he became senior vice president and CIO in 2001. He is responsible for the health system's EMR implementation, which made Baptist Medical Center South the first all-digital community hospital in Florida. Mr. Garcia also has experience as vice president and CIO of Pensacola, Fla.-based Baptist Health Care, where he spent 15 years as vice president and CIO. In addition to his work with Baptist Health, Mr. Garcia has been a member of the Jacksonville Regional Chamber of Commerce CIO Council and Northeast Florida HIE CIO Council. Indranil (Neal) Ganguly. Vice President and CIO of JFK Health System (Edison, N.J.). Since joining JFK Health System in 2013 as vice president and CIO, Mr. Ganguly has led the hospital through a full application infra- structure replacement to support the shi toward accountable care and pop- ulation health. Under his leadership, JFK Medical Center earned Hospitals & Health Networks' Health Care's Most Wired award in 2017. Before he joined JFK, Mr. Ganguly served as vice president and CIO of Freehold, N.J.-based CentraState Healthcare System for more than 14 years, where he led the sys- tem's efforts to achieve Stage 6 designation on the HIMSS Analytics EMR Adoption Model scale in 2012. Bill Gillis. CIO of Beth Israel Deaconess Care Organization (Westwood, Mass.). Mr. Gillis leads IT for the 2,500-physician-member Beth Israel Dea- coness Care Organization, a value-based physician and hospital network and ACO. With a 20-plus year career in health IT under his belt, Mr. Gillis has experience overseeing the team that created and implemented one of the first cloud-based EHRs in 2007, which supported BIDCO's efforts to achieve Triple Aim improvements. In addition to his leadership at BIDCO, Mr. Gil- lis has served on the technical subcommittee for the Massachusetts Health Information Exchange and works with nonprofit organizations to improve healthcare in developing countries with technology. Joy Grosser. CIO of UW Medicine (Seattle). Ms. Grosser became CIO of UW Medicine in November 2017 aer spending 20 years in IT senior leadership at Cleveland-based University Hospitals. Ms. Grosser le the 18-hospital health system as CIO, where she oversaw IT for the system's hospitals, 40 outpatient centers and 200 physician offices. She also has experience developing and im- plementing IT strategic plans for West Des Moines, Iowa-based UnityPoint Health and Orange-based University of California Irvine Health System. In her current role, Ms. Grosser oversees IT infrastructure for UW Medicine's four hospitals and numerous clinics. John Halamka, MD. CIO of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (Bos- ton) and CIO and Dean for Technology at Harvard Medical School (Bos- ton). Dr. Halamka is the CIO of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and CIO and dean for technology of Harvard Medical School. He also serves as the chairman of the New England Health Electronic Data Exchange Network and CEO of the regional health information organization MA-SHARE. An emergency medicine physician by training, Dr. Halamka pursued a graduate degree in bioengineering at UC Berkeley, focusing on technology, and has continued to apply his clinical and IT knowledge to influential roles affect- ing healthcare delivery. He is currently responsible for all clinical, financial, administrative and academic IT for Beth Israel and oversees the educational, research and administrative computing for Harvard Medical School students and faculty. In November 2017, Dr. Halamka also became editor-in-chief of the online peer-reviewed journal Blockchain in Healthcare Today. Arthur Harvey III. Vice President and CIO of Boston Medical Center. Mr. Harvey is vice president and CIO of the 487-bed nonprofit Boston Medical Cen- ter, overseeing IT for the safety net hospital. Aer spending two years as the director of applications and development at Boston Medical Center, Mr. Harvey took on his current position in 2014 and has delivered three consecutive years of on-budget and cost-control performance through his hands-on, results-driven approach to leadership. During his tenure, Mr. Harvey revised the IT governance process and management structure, which reduced staff turnover by 20 percent and increased the project completion rate by 80 percent. He was responsible for a successful EHR implementation that ran on time and on budget, resulting in a $15 million per year increase in revenue as well as improved physician satis- faction. Under his leadership, Boston Medical Center earned Hospitals & Health Networks' Health Care's Most Wired honor for the first time and improved from HIMSS EMR Adoption Model Stage 3 to Stage 6. Steve Hess. CIO at the University of Utah (Salt Lake City). Mr. Hess was promoted from his role as project director for the University of Utah's chief business officer to CIO of University of Utah and the Utah System of Higher Education in January 2015. He built a long career in health IT, previously serving as the founding director of the Utah Education Network, and spent two periods as CIO during a 38-year career with the network. He devoted his career to making educational resources accessible online. David L. House. Vice President and CIO of Baptist Health (Little Rock, Ark.). Mr. House is the vice president and CIO of Baptist Health, a nine-hos- pital health system that includes more than 175 access points across Arkan- sas. e nonprofit health system was an early adopter of EHR as part of a comprehensive clinical quality and patient safety initiative. roughout his nearly 30-year career in healthcare — 25 years of which were spent at Baptist Health — Mr. House has sat on the board for KLAS, a research organization that monitors healthcare vendor performance. Ross Hurd. CIO of Lake Chelan (Wash.) Community Hospital. Mr. Hurd is the CIO of Lake Chelan Community Hospital, a 25-bed critical access hospital founded in 1984 to provide care to Chelan residents. Mr. Hurd is responsible for the hospital's IT services, spanning its 24-hour emergency room, surgical center and inpatient services. Under his leadership, the hospi- tal earned Hospital & Health Networks' Health Care's Most Wired distinction in 2017 for the third consecutive year.

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