KH: Before you were asked to serve as interim CIO, had you had an association with Penn Medicine? In March of this year, they announced that I was their selection. In June, the health system embarked upon a national search for a permanent CIO. At that point, the health system asked if I would step in and become the interim CIO because there were so many projects that were in a state of flux and needed guidance. George announced he was resigning in February of 2007 and departed in March of 2008. The former CIO was an individual by the name of George Brenckle. MR: I started in December of 2006 in a consulting role to perform IS leadership activities. How did this process unfold? When and how did you initially begin the consultant role, and how were you promoted to CIO? KH: Now, you were recently promoted to CIO after spending time as interim CIO under a consulting contract. Tied to that, the health system moves at an outstandingly fast pace, so our information systems (IS) organization needs to match - if not exceed - this pace across all segments of the health system. Our primary challenge surrounds the breadth and depth of services provided by the health system and the information systems support that is required. Instead, the facility will consist of a long term acute care unit, a major rehabilitation unit and a hospice unit. Those beds are coming back online in July of this year, but they’re not coming online as inpatient beds. We’ve recently purchased Graduate Health System from Tenet Health, which had Graduate Hospital associated with it.

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