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Boston, MA-based Brigham and Women's Hospital has Appointed Cedric J. Priebe as Chief Information Officer
About the Company
Boston`s Brigham and Women`s Hospital (BWH) is an international leader in virtually every area of medicine and has been the site of pioneering breakthroughs that have improved lives around the world. A major teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School, BWH has a legacy of excellence that continues to grow. With two outstanding hospitals, over 150 outpatient practices, and over 1,200 physicians, we serve patients from New England, throughout the United States, and from 120 countries around the world. The BWH name is a reflection of our history. In 1980 three of Boston`s oldest and most prestigious Harvard Medical School teaching hospitals - the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, the Robert Breck Brigham Hospital, and the Boston Hospital for Women – merged to form Brigham and Women`s Hospital. As a national leader in improving health care quality and safety, we have helped to develop some of the industry`s best practices including computerized physician order entry (CPOE) to prevent medication errors. The CPOE is now a nationally-accepted safety practice. The BWH Biomedical Research Institute (BRI) is one of the most powerful biomedical research institutes in the world and the second largest recipient of National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding among independent hospitals in the United States. BWH has long had great success in research as measured by the number of important discoveries made, the size and scope of its research portfolio and the volume of publications annually. BWH is a training ground for physicians, nurses, and allied health professionals. We have 1,100 trainees in over 140 of the most sought after training programs in the world, and also host Harvard Medical School students in rotations throughout our programs. As our global health services expand, our clinical trainees have rich opportunities to contribute and learn in challenging environments around the world. Brigham and Women`s Hospital is an EEO, AA, VEVRAA Employer.
About the Person
Priebe joins BWH from the Care New England Health System (CNE) in Rhode Island, where he has served as chief information officer and senior vice president of Information Services since 2007. He is also an attending pediatric hospitalist at Women & Infants Hospital. During his tenure at CNE, the health system won the American Hospital Association Most Wired™ Most Improved award. CNE Information Systems also earned Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Analytics EMR Adoption Model Level 6 award in 2012. Priebe was instrumental in the development of the Rhode Island Health Information Exchange, where he has served as its Advisory Board co-chair since 2005. Priebe also led the development and implementation of clinical information systems at Butler, Kent, and Women & Infants hospitals, the institutions that comprise CNE. He also holds several positions at Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, including assistant professor of Pediatrics, where he received multiple teaching awards. He is board certified in Pediatrics and is licensed to practice in Rhode Island and Massachusetts. Priebe earned his BA in History and Science, magna cum laude, at Harvard University, and his MD from Harvard Medical School. He completed his residency at Boston Children’s Hospital, serving as chief medical resident in his final year.
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