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John
C. Wade, Vice President
Saint Luke's Health System
2007 National HIMSS Chairman of the Board
John
serves as the Vice President and the Executive Director,
Kansas City Regional Electronic Exchange (KC REE) on behalf
of Saint Luke's Health System (SLHS) of Kansas City, where
he also served for the past 14 years as the VP/CIO. Saint
Luke’s is a multi-hospital (11 inpatient facilities)
Healthcare provider servicing eastern Kansas and western
Missouri within 150 miles of Kansas City.
Saint
Luke's serves the KS and MO populace within a 150 mile radius
of Kansas City and operatied The Mid-America Heart Institute,
a nationally recognized provider for cardiac services and
heart transplants. John served in a key quality leadership
role for Saint Luke’s who received the Malcolm Baldridge
National Quality Award in 2003, National Healthcare Quality
Award in 2000, and who were awarded the Missouri Quality
Award 4 times, the only organization in MO so recognized.
Prior
to joining Saint Luke's, John was a principal and national
healthcare practice director with the consulting firm of
Logica North America headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts.
Previously Mr. Wade has also served as the Senior Information
Executive at the University of Alabama Health Systems at
Birmingham, Northwestern Memorial Health System - Chicago
and Children's Hospital Medical Center - Boston. Mr. Wade
is an honor's graduate of Boston College where he pursued
his Master's in Business Administration and is a Fellow
of both HIMSS and CHIME. He has been a featured speaker
at HIMSS, CHIME, HFMA, NMHCC, WHCC and National VHA conferences
and was recently recognized as one of the top CIO’s
in the US by Computerworld publications. John is a member
of the CHIME Leadership development faculty and is currently
the Chair Elect for the national HIMSS Board of Directors,
the premier professional organization for health information
professionals.
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