What Happened?
San Diego, CA-based Rady Children's Hospital has Appointed Albert Oriol as Chief Information Officer
About the Company
Rady Children's Hospital-San Diego, the largest children’s hospital in California, is a 442-bed pediatric care facility providing the largest source of comprehensive pediatric medical services in San Diego, Southern Riverside and Imperial Counties. Rady Children’s is the only hospital in the San Diego area dedicated exclusively to pediatric healthcare and is the region’s only designated pediatric trauma center. On October 10, 2010, Rady Children's opened the Acute Care Pavilion, a LEED-Certified (green) building that is home to the incredible new Peckham Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders, the state-of-the-art Warren Family Surgical Center, and a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit that cares for our community’s most fragile newborns. In 2001, Rady Children’s formed an affiliation agreement with the University of California-San Diego to unify pediatric patient care, research, education, and community service programs on the Rady Children’s campus.
About the Person
Albert Oriol is Vice President, Information Management and CIO at Rady Children’s Hospital and Health Center in San Diego, CA. In his previous role, Albert directed the IS Program Office and Privacy/Data Security Officer for The Children's Hospital in Denver, Colorado. Albert’s background and expertise center around IT strategy, organizational change management, project and portfolio management, IT quality assurance, process improvement/management engineering, emerging technology assessment, and information security and privacy. His teams have led large scale EMR implementations, infrastructure deployments and new facilities. Albert is a recognized healthcare professional with over 20 years of IT experience. He participates in various industry groups both in the US and abroad, and serves in various CHIME committees. In 2004, Albert received CHIME's John Glaser Award and published ""Sanidad en un Mundo Digital"", a book compiling his writings about healthcare in a digital World. From 2004 through 2008 Albert taught IT Strategy and Management in Healthcare Organizations for the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (www.uoc.edu), the leading Spanish online university. Albert holds bachelors degrees in management and economics & finance from Bentley College and Catalonia International College respectively, as well as an MBA and a masters in health science from the University of Florida. In his spare time Albert coaches youth rugby.
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