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Detroit, MI-based Henry Ford Health System has appointed Mary Alice Annecharico as Chief Information Officer.
About the Company
Founded in 1915 by auto pioneer Henry Ford, Henry Ford Health System (HFHS) is one of the nation`s leading comprehensive, integrated health systems. It provides health insurance and health care delivery, including acute, specialty, primary and preventive care services backed by excellence in research and education. HFHS is a not-for-profit corporation managed by Chief Executive Officer Nancy M. Schlichting and governed by a 21-member Board of Trustees, with volunteer-led advisory and affiliate boards providing additional leadership. HFHS is a 2011 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award recipient. Teaching, research and advanced patient care make HFHS a premier academic medical center. Affiliated with Wayne State University`s School of Medicine, Henry Ford provides innovative physician training programs and collaborates on leading-edge medical research. Henry Ford is a state and national leader in medical education for medical students, interns, residents and fellows and the continuing education of faculty, affiliated physicians, nurses and allied health professionals. Each year, HFHS trains almost 2,200 future physicians. In 2012, continuing medical education opportunities were provided to more than 70,000 physicians, nurses and allied health professionals. In collaboration with Wayne State University School of Engineering and Center for Creative Studies, the Henry Ford Innovation Institute aims to research and design medical products to enhance medical use and to create new industry in the region. With more than 23,000 employees (2012), Henry Ford is the sixth-largest employer in metro Detroit, and amongst the most diverse. Generating more than $6 billion of annual economic stimulus for metro Detroit, it proudly acts as one of Michigan`s anchor institutions. HFHS is a tobacco-free organization.
About the Person
Mary Alice Annecharico, R.N., M.S. was appointed in December 2011 as Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer for the Henry Ford Health System, responsible for the strategic planning and delivery and support of its integrated delivery systems including Project Helios revenue cycle, electronic health record, physician and patient portals, as well as IT improvement services across Henry Ford. At the core of these efforts is the imperative to improve efficiency and business alignment, reduce costs, and enhance information integration within the hospital and ambulatory environments. With an appreciation for the complexities at the organizational level, Mary Alice plays a major role in fostering the organizational capability needed to extract greater value from IT investments. She is widely recognized for her ability to transform information technology services into highly effective, cross-disciplinary teams responsible for using technology resources to improve services and realize the strategic goals of the organization. Mary Alice is a registered nurse with an extensive nursing leadership background and more than 20 years in transforming clinical and business environments through the uses of technology. In her previous roles as Chief Information Officer at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and University Hospitals of Cleveland, she collaborated with academic colleagues, peer institutions and industry leaders on the interpretation of privacy and security and clinical research standards for academic organizations. Mary Alice has been actively engaged in national efforts to create a sustainable, secure, statewide health information exchange (HIE), offering interoperability between regional and national health information networks to provide access to clinical data and improved, measurable health outcomes. A Fellow in the Health Information Systems Society (HIMSS), she serves as Editor for the peer reviewed Journal of Health Information Management, the digital publication of HIMSS. Mary Alice is a nursing graduate from St Vincent’s Hospital, NYC, and holds a BS in Health Care Administration from St. Joseph’s College, and an MS in Organizational Dynamics from the University of Pennsylvania.
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