What Happened?
Portland, OR-based Health Share of Oregon has Appointed John A. Sanders as Chief Information Officer
About the Company
We collectively create health or lack of health. Caregiver, service giver, policymaker and, most importantly, each one of us. Healthy individuals can create a healthy community. We are all in this together, creating, delivering and receiving care and services. Our CCO is a single organism, a community, an integrated collection of care and services that prevents illness and promotes and restores health in all its many meanings: physical, social, behavioral. Health Share is also a community of members who actively engage to the best of their abilities. Because without individual responsibility, there ultimately cannot be health. We know that it is better to prevent illness than treat it, better to stay on top of chronic conditions, better to provide people what they need to take care of themselves. In our community, members get the care they need, when they need it. What’s more, care goes into the community to serve them where they are. In our community, members receive the care they need regardless of race, ethnicity, social situation or literacy levels. Barriers are removed and doors are opened for the benefit of member health. In our community, care and services come from whatever source is most appropriate. We acknowledge, respect and include all providers of care and services. We count as partners any and all organizations that help our members, whether by contract or by mission. And that help extends far beyond the provision of care, to the basic needs that all people have and are entitled to: education, housing, employment, safety and more. Our mission is to develop an integrated community health system that achieves better care, better health and lower costs for the Medicaid population and the Tri-County community.
About the Person
Prior to joining Health Share of Oregon, John Sanders was the Chief Information Officer at The Portland Clinic, a large multi-specialty practice group with seven facilities across the Tri-County Metro region. His previous positions included serving as Vice President of Information Technology and CIO at Colorado Springs Health Partners in Colorado Springs, Colorado, as well as a partner and consultant with JNJ Associates in Centennial, Colorado, which provides management consulting and technology solutions for a variety of health care vendor and provider organizations. Sanders received his Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from the University of California in Davis. He received his B.S. in both Chemistry and Biology from the University of Oregon in Eugene. He is a Certified Professional in Healthcare Information and Management Systems (CPHIMS) and a Certified Project Management Professional (PMP).
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