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Sacramento, CA-based UC Davis Health System has Appointed Michael Minear as Chief Information Officer.
About the Company
UC Davis Medical Center is a comprehensive academic medical center where clinical practice, teaching and research converge to advance human health. Centers of excellence include the National Cancer Institute-designated UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center; the region`s only Level 1 pediatric and adult trauma centers; the UC Davis MIND Institute, devoted to finding treatments and cures for neurodevelopmental disorders; and the UC Davis Children`s Hospital. The medical center serves a 33-county, 65,000-square-mile area that stretches north to the Oregon border and east to Nevada. It further extends its reach through the award-winning telemedicine program, which gives remote, medically underserved communities throughout California unprecedented access to specialty and subspecialty care.
About the Person
Michael Minear, Chief Information Officer, is a national leader in health-care information technology. He has an extensive record of leading transformations of large, complex organizations in the use of modern information technology. As a member of the executive leadership team of UC Davis Health System, Minear directs about 460 staff employees and oversees an overall annual operating budget of $80 million, plus a yearly capital budget exceeding $20 million. He is responsible for developing and executing a technology strategy that supports the health system's four missions of clinical care, research, education, and community engagement. Minear has worked in the health-care industry for over 34 years. He has held the positions of senior vice president and CIO at the University of Maryland Medical System; vice president and CIO at Park Nicollet Health Services in Minneapolis; CIO of the University of Minnesota Hospital and Clinic; and vice president at Medicus Systems. While at Medicus, he co-designed and managed the development of the first commercial executive information system for health-care-providing organizations (DISCOVERY EIS). Minear has been a part-time associate faculty member at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health since 2001, where he teaches the graduate Informatics class entitled Health Management Information Systems. At John Hopkins, he has taught and mentored more than 500 graduate students from 18 countries, and was one of 13 faculty members teaching one of 147 Johns Hopkins courses awarded ""Exceptional Teacher"" in the spring of 2011. He also has served on the faculty of the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives of which he is a member and where he taught seven Information Management Executive classes. He is among the first group of health-care executives in the nation to be credentialed as a Certified Healthcare CIO by the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives. He is a certified professional in Healthcare Information and Management Systems (CPHIMS), sponsored by the Healthcare Information & Management Systems Society of which he is a member. He was mentor and host to CIO interns from the Virginia Commonwealth University during the summers of 2003 and 2004, and was a member of the Society's national task force supporting the National Healthcare Information Network (NHIN). He is also a member of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA). Minear has a bachelor's degree from the University of Iowa with a double major in finance and financial economics, and a graduate certificate in biomedical informatics from Oregon Health & Science University's School of Medicine.
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