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Fort Worth, TX-based Cook Children's Health Care System has Appointed Theresa Meadows as Chief Information Officer
About the Company
Cook Children`s Health Care System embraces an inspiring Promise – to improve the health of every child in our region through the prevention and treatment of illness, disease and injury. Based in Fort Worth, Texas, we`re proud of our long and rich tradition of serving our community.
About the Person
Theresa Meadows, MS, RN, FHIMSS is the Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer for Cook Children’s Health Care System. She leads a team of 170 members covering areas such as infrastructure, applications, telecommunications, and program management. The IS team currently supports 140 project initiatives that include deploying business intelligence, advanced clinical systems, and enterprise resource management. Ms. Meadows has led the organization through extensive improvements and modernization. In 2012, the organization received recognition as one of the Most Improved Hospitals as part of the “Most Wired” award program and recognized as one of the Information Week 500 innovators. She was also named one of Computerworld’s Premier 100 IT leaders for 2013. Meadows’ has 17+ years of experience leading efforts for incorporating information systems as a mechanism for facilitating process improvement and efficiency. Prior to joining Cook, Theresa was a Director for Ascension Health Information Services. In that role she leads the strategic direction for clinical information solutions that cross care settings for 10 facilities within Ascension Health. Meadows’ has a master’s degree in healthcare informatics from the University of Alabama at Birmingham; a bachelor’s degree in nursing from the University of Alabama at Birmingham, is a Fellow in the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) and is an active member of the College of Health Information Management Executives (CHIME).
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