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Concord, NH-based Concord Hospital has Appointed Deane Morrison as Chief Information Officer
About the Company
Concord Hospital, Inc. owns and operates health care facilities. The company was founded in 1946 and is based in Concord, New Hampshire. Concord Hospital, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Capital Region Health Care. The Hospital has national accreditation from DNV Healthcare, the newest and first Medicare-approved hospital accreditation program that integrates the ISO 9001 quality management system with the Medicare hospital standards.
About the Person
Deane Morrison, Chief Information Officer at Concord Hospital has 25 years experience in the information technology industry, including thirteen years as the Chief Information Officer for Capital Region Healthcare. He has strong background in all aspects of the IT industry, including telecommunications, data networking, application implementation, interface development, data center operations, web development, bio-medical engineering and vendor management. He has also aligned his IT organization with ITIL best practices. As a member of CRHC's senior leadership team, he participated in setting short and long-term strategic and tactical directions for the system at large.He was a member of the CEO's core strategic advisory team and was a full time staff member at all CRHC board meetings. Mr. Morrison is a Registered Pharmacist and has a particular passion for implementing clinical IT systems. He has extensive experience in the implementation of provider related information technology products in both the acute care hospital setting and in the ambulatory care physician office setting. In the acute care setting he implemented physician portal programs in four hospitals, CPOE achieving over 70% adoption amongst members of the medical staff, advanced nursing documentation systems, and closed loop medication management meeting best practice for bar-coding the medication, patient, and nurse at the 98 percentile. In the ambulatory care setting he has oversaw the implementation of EMR systems in 30+ practices encompassing 200+ physicians and 300+ providers accounting for 250,000+ electronic patient records. He is a past advisory board member for KLAS and also has been member of advisory board for McKesson, Vocera, and Kryptiq. He is an accomplished mountaineer having climbed worldwide. His major ascents include Mt. Aconcagua in Argentina, Mt. Huascaran in Peru, Mt. Orizaba in Mexico, Mt. Logan in Canada and all the sixty-nine 14,000 foot mountains in the Continental United States. Mr. Morrison received his BS in Computer Management (1989) from Franklin Pierce College. He also received a BS in Pharmacy (1976) from the University of Connecticut. He is a registered and licensed pharmacist in the states of NH and VT. He has been a member of HIMSS since 1993 and a member of CHIME since 1995.
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