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Hartford, CT-based Connecticut Children's Medical Center has Appointed Kelly R. Styles as Chief information Officer.
About the Company
Connecticut Children`s Medical Center is a nationally recognized, 187-bed not-for-profit children`s hospital serving as the primary teaching hospital for the University of Connecticut School of Medicine department of pediatrics. Connecticut Children`s Medical Center is consistently named among the best in the nation for several of its pediatric specialties in the annual U.S. News & World Report “Best Children`s Hospitals” rankings. The history of Connecticut Children`s spans more than 100 years. Founded as a 10-bed hospital for children who suffered incurable conditions such as cerebral palsy, spina bifida and polio, Connecticut Children`s is now one of only two freestanding children`s hospitals in New England—the only freestanding children`s hospital in Connecticut—that offers comprehensive, world-class health care to children and adolescents in a patient- and family-centered environment with a focus on research, education and advocacy. A comprehensive array of pediatric services are available at our hospitals in Hartford and Waterbury, with neonatal intensive care units in Hartford (Level 4) and the University of Connecticut Health Center (Level 3), along with five specialty care centers and 10 practices across the state and in Massachusetts. Our Level 1 Pediatric Trauma Center and Primary Care Center are the busiest between Boston and New York. Connecticut Children`s has 2,200 employees with a medical staff of nearly 1,100, practicing in more than 30 specialties.
About the Person
Kelly R. Styles is Vice President and Chief Information Officer of Connecticut Children’s Medical Center. Mr. Styles provides oversight for all information technology decision making and evaluation at Connecticut Children’s, focusing on improving timely access to relevant information in support of the Medical Center’s strategic goals. He is responsible for guiding the selection and implementation of information systems, and working to ensure that those systems are integrated into functional processes. Before joining Connecticut Children’s, Mr. Styles was Chief Information Officer at Children’s National Medical Center in Washington D.C., where he was responsible for all corporate information technology activities across 38 individual clinical facilities and administrative offices. He also served in the United States Air Force for 14 years, where he developed and utilized various technologies in support of the Air Force's analytical capabilities. Kelly received Associate’s degrees in general studies from the University of Maryland University College and in Communications Technology from the Community College of the Air Force. He received his Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Mississippi State University and a Master’s degree in Management Information Systems from the University of Dallas. He is a member of numerous professional organizations including CHIME and HIMSS.
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