University of Rochester Medical Center names Thomas Barnett as CIO
Thomas Barnett will take the CIO post at the University of Rochester Medical Center, the organization revealed.
When he assumes the chief information officer role on Oct. 10, 2016, Barnett will succeed the recently retired CIO Jerry Powell and report to CEO Mark Taubman, MD.
Barnett currently serves as vice president of the NorthShore University HealthSystem in Evanston, Illinois, a network that encompasses four hospitals, 70 clinics, and an 850-member physician practice.
At NorthShore University, Barnett led the planning and deployment of initiatives such as electronic health record and revenue cycle systems, enterprise data warehousing, meaningful use initiatives, IT security, mobile app and telemedicine strategy.
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He also drove IT participation in key population health efforts, including the development of advanced analytic platforms for ambulatory and inpatient reporting, as well as predictive modeling for patient risk registries, care gap analyses, and risk-based contract management.
They are all essential capabilities that UR Medicine will require as it advances its own population health strategy, UR Medicine officials added.
While at NorthShore, Barnett was appointed to lead the system’s Digital Health Initiative, through which he collaborated with EPIC’s product development team for MyChart, Cadence, Ambulatory, and Healthy Planet products.
Barnett is known for forward-thinking strategy as well as measured, effective project management, officials said. Prior to his tenure at NorthShore, Barnett spent seven years at Detroit’s Henry Ford Health System as Executive Director of Information Technology before being promoted to Vice President in 2012. At Henry Ford, he was responsible for the system’s Epic implementation, including the migration of an acquired hospital, as well as oversight of the network’s legacy applications portfolio.
“We were especially impressed with his proven experience with Epic, our EHR vendor,” Taubman said. “And his track record of maximizing information for clinical research.”
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