What Happened?
San Diego, CA-based Sharp HealthCare has announced the Resignation of William A. Spooner as Chief Information Officer
About the Company
Sharp HealthCare is a not-for-profit health care system based in San Diego, California. Sharp includes four acute care hospitals, three specialty hospitals, two medical groups and a health plan. Sharp provides medical services in virtually all fields of medicine, including primary care, heart care, cancer, orthopedics, women’s health, rehabilitation, robotic surgery, and bariatric surgery. Sharp sets the community standard for exceptional care and has been consistently ranked the number-one integrated health care system in Southern California. Sharp is honored to be a recipient of the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, the nation’s highest Presidential honor for quality and organizational performance excellence. Two Sharp hospitals, Sharp Grossmont Hospital and Sharp Memorial Hospital, have received prestigious Magnet recognition by the American Nurses Credentialing Center for excellence in nursing practices and quality patient care. At the heart of our organization are more than 18,000 affiliated physicians, nurses, staff and volunteers who are on a journey to make health care better for our patients and their families. It’s what we call The Sharp Experience – treating each person with dignity, compassion and respect, and using our clinical excellence and advanced technology to deliver the highest-quality patient care. We are dedicated to transforming the health care experience, making health care more meaningful, more thoughtful and more personal.
About the Person
William A. Spooner has been Chief Information Officer for more than 15 of his 30 years at Sharp HealthCare. He has led an aggressive IT effort that placed Sharp on the Hospitals and Health Networks 100 Most Wired list for 12 of the list's 14 years. IT was cited for its contributions to Sharp's 2007 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award. Sharp was an early leader in electronic health records and has received several awards for its consumer website. In 2010, Sharp launched its mySharp portal to more closely engage its patients in their care, followed by the mobile mySharp in 2012 with an iPhone®, iPad® and iTouch® app. Recipient of the 2009 John E. Gall Jr. CIO of the Year Award, Spooner is a member of the Healthcare Information Systems Executive Association, the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society and a Fellow in the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives, in which he served as chair in 2006. He recently joined the Boards of the National eHealth Collaborative and the Digital Pathology Association. Spooner serves on the Healthcare IT News Editorial Board, the California Hospital Association Health Informatics and Technology Committee and a number of industry advisory councils. In 2011 he was named by Information Week as one of the 25 leaders driving the health care IT revolution.
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