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Boston, MA-based Partners HealthCare System has Appointed James Noga as Chief Information Officer
About the Company
Partners Healthcare is a not-for-profit, integrated health care system in Boston, Massachusetts. Founded by Brigham and Women`s Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital – two of the nation`s leading academic medical centers – Partners Healthcare includes community and specialty hospitals, a managed care organization, a physician network, community health centers, home care and other health related services. Partners is committed to the community, and dedicated to enhancing patient care, teaching, and research in service to our patients and their families. Partners is the largest private employer in Massachusetts, with approximately 60,000 employees, including physicians, nurses, scientists, and caregivers. Partners institutions maintain a total research budget of more than $1.4 billion, and Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Brigham and Women`s Hospital (BWH) are the largest private hospital recipients of National Institutes of Health funding in the nation. Partners offers one of the most robust and competitive medical educational programs in the country, with more than 200 residency and fellowship programs, where physicians-in-training routinely rotate among academic medical centers, community and specialty hospitals. Partners maintains a strong commitment to the community. Through outreach programs and philanthropic initiatives, Partners and its hospitals are committed to improving the delivery of care locally and globally.
About the Person
James Noga serves as Vice-President and Chief Information Officer of Partners HealthCare assuming the position on April 1, 2011. Mr. Noga comes to this role with a deep and rich history with Partners. He was recruited by Massachusetts General Hospital as Director of Clinical Applications in 1990 and assumed the role CIO of Massachusetts General Hospital and the Massachusetts General Physicians Organization in 1997. Mr. Noga has experience in advancing clinical systems with the introduction of online enterprise clinical reporting system, computerized provider order entry, closed loop electronic medication administration, and an ambulatory electronic medical record. In addition to clinical systems, he has done extensive work in improving patient administrative and research systems. Mr. Noga holds an MS Degree in Biomedical Computing and Information Processing and a BS degree in Medical Technology both from the Ohio State University. He is an active member of the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives and the Health Information and Management Systems Society. He is also an instructor in Northeastern University's Graduate Health Informatics Program.
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