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Hamilton, ON-based St. Joseph's Healthcare Hamilton has Appointed Mark Farrow as Chief Information Officer
About the Company
St. Joseph's Healthcare Foundation is known for building lasting, mutually rewarding partnerships that enable St. Joseph's Healthcare Hamilton, a multi-campus, teaching hospital, to provide the best in compassionate patient care and innovative medical research. For the past 40 years, the Foundation has reached out to the community for donations, big and small, to assist with capital improvements, research funding, academic infrastructure and equipment renewals and enhancements. Since 1970, together we have raised more than $119 million for St. Joseph's, which has emerged as one of Canada's leading health science centres. Whether you choose to support a specific program at St. Joseph's or designate your gift to the Hospital's greatest needs, every gift to the Foundation has a marked impact on the lives of thousands of patients served each year. St. Joseph's Healthcare Foundation raises and stewards funds vital to fulfilling St. Joseph's Healthcare Hamilton's mission as an exemplary academic health sciences centre devoted to research, education and compassionate patient care, consistent with the Sisters of St. Joseph of Hamilton's historic legacy of serving body, mind and spirit.
About the Person
Mark Farrow has held a progressive 25-year career in information technology and management. As Vice President and Chief Information Officer for Hamilton Health Sciences, Mr. Farrow oversees a $20 million dollar operating budget and a staff of more than 100 members. His portfolio includes Information and Communication Technologies, Clinical and Medical Informatics, Bio-medical Technologies and Enterprise Risk Management oversight. Mr. Farrow has led the process of integrating HHS’ six hospitals and cancer centre into a common integrated system and infrastructure. He has also been involved with numerous projects at the regional and provincial levels, including the electronic health records initiative, and provides services to four other hospitals and the LHIN (Local Health Integration Network). Mr. Farrow was recently named 2011 Health Care Chief Security Office of the Year, as awarded by the Editors of SC Canada Magazine at the SC Canada Congress Data Security Conference and Expo. Formerly, Mr. Farrow was the director of information systems at The Credit Valley Hospital in Mississauga, Ontario where he implemented the systems from the ground up, culminating in one of the first fully electronic patient records utilizing integrated hospital information systems and document imaging technologies. Mr. Farrow has written numerous articles on hospital information systems, RFID (radio-frequency identification) and the electronic health record, and speaks at conferences across North America. Mr. Farrow holds a Bachelor of Commerce in Finance and an MBA in Information Management, both from McMaster University.
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