What Happened?
Flint, MI-based McLaren Health Care has Appointed Ron Strachan as Chief Information Officer
About the Company
McLaren Health Care, headquartered in Grand Blanc, Michigan, is a $6 billion (budget FY21), fully integrated health care delivery system committed to quality, evidence-based patient care and cost efficiency. The McLaren system includes 15 hospitals in Michigan and Ohio, ambulatory surgery centers, imaging centers, a 490-member employed primary and specialty care physician network, commercial and Medicaid HMOs covering approximately 640,000 lives in Michigan and Indiana, home health, infusion and hospice providers, pharmacy services, a clinical laboratory network and a wholly owned medical malpractice insurance company. McLaren operates Michigan`s largest network of cancer centers and providers, anchored by the Karmanos Cancer Institute, one of only 51 National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer centers in the U.S. As part of its Graduate Medical Education (GME) program, McLaren maintains academic affiliations with medical schools at Wayne State University, Michigan State University and Central Medical University. McLaren`s six (6) GME campuses offer 27 residencies and eight (8) fellowship programs that train over 650 future physicians annually. All GME programs at McLaren are overseen and managed centrally by the Department of Academic Affairs.
About the Person
Ron Strachan is CIO at McLaren Health Care in Flint, Michigan. Ron has been working in Information Technology for nearly 30 years with his primary focus on Healthcare IT for over 25 years. He has held positions of systems analyst, project manager, consultant, partner and CIO at firms including Community Health Network (Indiana), WellStar Health System (Georgia), Kurt Salmon Associates (Minnesota), HealthEast Care System (Minnesota), Matria Healthcare (Georgia), Catholic Health Partners (Ohio), The Detroit Medical Center, Price Waterhouse Coopers (Michigan), St. John's Health System (Michigan), and RL Polk (Michigan). In addition, in 2007 he served as Chairman of the Board of CHIME (the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives) and is a long-standing member of CHIME and HIMSS (Healthcare Information Management Systems Society). He has also served as Chairman of the Board of Women's Advocates in St. Paul, Minnesota, and served on the Century College Technology Curriculum Advisory Committee, also in St. Paul, Minnesota. Additionally, Ron has served on adviosory boards for McKesson Coroporation, Surgical Information Systems, the State of Georgia and is an active member of Gerson Lehrman Group Council of Advisors. Ron received a Master of Science in Business from Central Michigan University. His undergraduate work in Computer Science and Business Administration was completed at Davenport University in Dearborn, Michigan. He has also attended post-graduate studies at Michigan State University. He has been a speaker at technolgy events and was guest faculty at Georgia Tech Graduate School of Business, the University of Minnesota's Carlson School of Business Healthcare Information Technology Institute, University of St. Catherine’s HealthCare IT program, the CHIME CIO Boot Camp, and Minnesota and Georgia HIMSS educational events.
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