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Salt Lake City, UT-based University of Utah Health Care has Appointed William James Turnbull as Chief Information Officer.
About the Company
University of Utah Health is the Intermountain West`s only academic health care system, combining excellence in patient care, the latest in medical research, and teaching to provide leading-edge medicine in a caring and personal setting. The system provides care for Utahns and residents of five surrounding states in a referral area encompassing more than 10 percent of the continental United States. Whether it`s for routine care or highly specialized treatment in orthopedics, stroke, ophthalmology, cancer, radiology, fertility, cardiology, genetic-related diseases, organ transplant, or many other areas of medicine, University of Utah Health Care offers the latest technology and advancements, including some services available nowhere else in the region. As part of that system, University Hospitals & Clinics relies on more than 1,400 board-certified physicians who staff four University hospitals (University Hospital, Huntsman Cancer Hospital, University Orthopaedic Center, and the University Neuropsychiatric Institute); 12 community clinics; and several specialty centers including the John A. Moran Eye Center, the Cardiovascular Center, the Clinical Neurosciences Center, and the Utah Diabetes Center. University of Utah Health Care is consistently ranked among US News & World Report`s Best Hospitals, and its academic partners at the University of Utah School of Medicine and Colleges of Nursing, Pharmacy, Dentistry, and Health are internationally regarded research and teaching institutions.
About the Person
William James (Jim) Turnbull's career spans over 30 years in the health care industry, split between the Canadian and American Health Systems. Since March of 2008, he has served as Chief Information Officer of the University of Utah Hospitals and Clinics. Prior to joining UUHC, Dr. Turnbull served for seven years as Senior Vice President & Chief Information Officer of The Children's Hospital in Denver, Colorado. His academic background includes a BA in Organizational Psychology, an MBA from the University of Western Ontario, and a DHA from the Medical University of South Carolina. Dr. Turnbull has been a recipient of the Computerworld Smithsonian Award in 1996 and 1998. Jim is a former Board member and Chairman of the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME), and a Fellow and former President of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS).
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