What Happened?
Chicago, IL-based Rush University Medical Center Promoted Jaime Parent as Associate Chief Information Officer and Vice President of Information Technology Operations
About the Company
Rush is a not-for-profit health care, education and research enterprise comprising Rush University Medical Center, Rush University, Rush Oak Park Hospital and Rush Health. Rush University is home to one of the first medical colleges in the Midwest and one of the nation`s top-ranked nursing colleges, as well as graduate programs in allied health, health systems management and biomedical research. Rush has more than 8,000 employees, a medical staff of 890, and 650 physician residents and fellows. Rush is currently constructing a 14-floor, 806,000-square-foot hospital building at the corner of Ashland Avenue and Congress Parkway scheduled to open in 2012. It will house Rush`s acute and critical care patients and surgical, diagnostic and therapeutic services utilizing the most advanced technology available. The facility`s unique shape reflects four years of planning and input by hundreds of nurses, doctors and patients, whose ideas have influenced the design and layout. The new hospital, scheduled to open in 2012, is the centerpiece of a $1 billion, ten-year campus redevelopment plan called the Rush Transformation.
About the Person
Jaime B. Parent is Vice President of Information Technology Operations and Associate Chief Information Officer at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago. Among his many responsibilities, Mr. Parent is leading the technical transformation of Rush through various strategies, including the deployment of an electronic medical record and a modernization of technology infrastructure. A native of Connecticut, Mr. Parent has 30 years of healthcare experience including 20 years in the Air Force Medical Service, retiring at the grade of Lieutenant Colonel in 2003. A trained clinical microbiologist, Mr. Parent spent several years as a medical technologist, virology researcher and lab director, prior to becoming an Information Technology Executive and CIO. He has held several IT and CIO related positions within the United States Air Force Medical Service, Department of Defense, and the University of Maryland Medical System. His major career accomplishments include - First American laboratory to conduct HIV testing (1988); first ever electronic transmittal of laboratory results world-wide for the Air Force Epidemiology Laboratory (1993); first regional Department of Defense EMR: the Composite Health Care System in San Antonio, Texas (1995) and duplicated in Washington DC (August 2001). Also, his accomplishments include - first implementation of regional HMO IT network for DoD TRICARE in 11 Northeast and Mid-Atlantic State (1998); United States Air Force Medical Element CIO of the Year (2002); first development of a nationwide database for TRICARE HMO for 2.2M beneficiaries (2005); Rush most wired hospital (2008-); HIMSS analytics Stage 6 (2010); full inpatient and owned practice outpatient Epic System infrastructure installation completed (2011); and most recently, successful move of all infrastructure and technology into the new Rush Medical Center in January 2012. Mr. Parent has a Bachelor of Science degree in Microbiology from the University of Connecticut and graduate degrees in Medical Technology from Quinnipiac University and Computer Resource Management from Webster University. In his spare time, he enjoys time with his family and serving as a board member and advocate with several organizations helping individuals with intellectual disabilities.
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