Nordic eHealth Exchange
 
Nordic Lunch Speakers

Monday 13 April

12:00 - 12:30

Michael Minear

M.S., CHCIO, CPHIMS, CIO, University of California Davis Health System, USA

Minear has worked in the health-care industry for over 37 years and serves as the Chief Information Officer of the University of California Davis Health System, where he leads an IT division with 440 staff with an annual operating budget of $105 million dollars.

He is a member of the Board of Directors for the California Telehealth Network. Minear has been a part-time associate faculty member at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health since 2002, where he teaches the graduate class entitled ‘Health Management Information Systems.’ He has a Master of Science Degree from Northwestern University in Medical Informatics, a Graduate Certificate in biomedical informatics from Oregon Health & Science University's School of Medicine, and a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from the University of Iowa with a double major in finance and financial economics.

 

Tuesday 14 April

12:30 - 13:00

Sarah Richardson

Sarah Richardson

CIO at NCH Healthcare System

Promoted three times in her ten-year tenure with HCA, culminating in a Division CIO position, Sarah’s contributions centered on leading the development and delivery of IT in a shared service model along with scalable operational programs and improvement activities. She is most proud that her work focused on building long-lasting, loyal relationships across the continuum, resulting in collaborative strategies to meet project delivery needs, productivity gains, and the use of technology to advance patient care resulting in better outcomes. Her ability to coordinate teams of technology experts, strategic business partners, physicians, and clinicians, has enabled her to repeatedly deliver programs, services, and tailored solutions in the healthcare setting.

Today, Sarah serves as the CIO for NCH Community Health System in Naples, FL. NCH is a non-for-profit, multi-facility healthcare system in Naples, Florida. NCH Downtown Naples Hospital and NCH North Naples Hospital provide personalized care for over 30,000 patients a year in their two-hospital, 715 bed system. NCH's outstanding reputation is confirmed by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO), in its award of accreditation to both NCH hospitals and the 35 clinic offices providing outpatient services to the surrounding counties.

12:30 - 13:00

Michele Thoman

Michele Thoman

System Chief Nursing Officer for NCH

Michele Thoman MBA, RN serves as the System Chief Nursing Officer for NCH, Naples Community Healthcare System, a 715 bed two hospital system and also serves as the Administrator of the NCH North Naples Hospital. She joined the NCH team in August of 2009.

Prior to NCH, Ms. Thoman comes to Naples from Cleveland, Ohio where she has served in progressive nursing leadership positions including Chief Nursing Officer at Lakewood Hospital, a Cleveland Clinic hospital and Nurse Manager at the Cleveland Clinic. Ms. Thoman received her diploma in nursing from St. Thomas Hospital School of Nursing, Akron, OH (1990), her Bachelor of Science nursing degree from The University of Akron, Akron, OH (2000), and her Master of Business Administration, Healthcare Executive from Baldwin Wallace College, Berea, OH (2002). She is a Johnson & Johnson/Wharton Nurse Executive Fellow, completed in 2011. Ms. Thoman’s clinical background is in critical care nursing, specializing in cardiac care. Administratively, Ms. Thoman is highly effective in operations management and implementation of strong shared governance models leading to excellence in patient care delivery.

 

Wednesday 15 April

12:00 - 12:30

Ale Houtsma

Ale Houtsma

Project Director / Independent Consultant

Radboud University Medical Center

The Netherlands.

Working for more than 25 years in general and academic hospitals, in different roles on all levels. In the last 15 years experience as CIO and program director of complex IT-programs with a big change component: implementation of EHR (Epic), new infrastructure (from datastorage till virtual desktop), steering info, labsystem.

On the other hand experience as (interim) manager and COO, with experience in almost all surgical, internal and ancillary specialisms.

Independent consultant and owner of Ale Houtsma Strategie & Interim Management.