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Mary was 25 when she sustained injuries to her arms, eyes, face and upper body after a chemical explosion at work in November 2020. Her hand was amputated and she was severely traumatized by the explosion and had to postpone her wedding. While working to recover physically from the explosion, Mary was also able to […]

Picture a room of 375 people trying to communicate in dozens of languages with little overlap. This is essentially what Chris Scott was determined to correct when he joined Dental Care Alliance in July 2021. He wanted to get the full picture before he acted, though, so during his first two weeks as the new […]

In her day job, Vai Haridas leads a commercial IT team that ensures technology solutions for employees and customers developed by Otsuka Pharmaceuticals Cos. (U.S.) reach the market compliantly. That’s included ensuing that updates to Abilify MyCite—a “digital pill” which contains a sensor—pass muster with regulations, including the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. But […]

Maybe he initially sold himself short, for Jason Schermerhorn never envisioned himself as part of corporate leadership. A technologist, he was thrilled to become a network engineer in December 2013 at one of California’s major providers of mental and behavioral health services. What an opportunity, he thought, to further his skills and in such a […]

John Doe and Jane Smith haven’t been themselves of late—it’s evident in their job performance and their supervisors sense what’s troubling them goes deeper than the workplace. It’s understandable, as they’re emerging from a global pandemic to find inflation at a 40-year high and images of refugees fleeing an invasion filling their TV screens. While […]

Time was that employees at Lexington Medical Center had to navigate an inventory forest while trying to keep the health care network supplied. With 73,000 clinical and nonclinical items in the database, it could be impossible to tell what they really needed, how it was priced and who supplied it. Director of IT Services Tom […]

Justin Lahullier is never going to lean over dental patients and ask them to open wide. As CIO for Delta Dental of New Jersey and Connecticut, he never prescribes anesthesia, rinsing or flossing, either. But since joining the provider of dental benefits in January 2004, Lahullier has made it his practice to extract data to […]

When employees at Soleo Health call members of the internal IT service desk, they often discuss confidential information. To ensure patient and client data isn’t shared with the wrong person, Vice President of IT Chip Schutte is introducing new security measures. By spring, he plans to roll out a system requiring employees of the internal […]

Having a sick child is hard enough—technology shouldn’t be an added stressor. So says Jerry Vuchak, senior vice president and chief information officer at Children’s Hospital & Medical Center in Omaha, Nebraska. “I feel passionate about what this organization is doing, which is providing the very best care for kids,” Vuchak says. “Technology ultimately ties […]

While there was a time when Fairfax Community Hospital provided vital medical care to residents of Oklahoma’s Osage County, by 2019, it was in ill health itself. Though it was the only hospital within 30 miles and had been the area’s largest employer, it was unable to pay its staff and was $1 million in […]