Kaiser Permanente has named as its CIO Richard “Dick” Daniels, who has served as interim CIO since Philip Fasano left last September to become CIO of American International Group Inc.
“With his proven leadership skills and expertise in IT, Dick is the ideal person to lead the critical work we are doing to ensure we continually meet the evolving needs of our members, customers and consumers,” said Kaiser Permanente CEO Bernard J. Tyson.
Mr. Daniels has served in several senior leadership roles since joining Kaiser Permanente in 2008. Prior to taking the interim CIO role, Mr. Daniels worked as the company’s senior vice president of enterprise shared services, which included oversight of technology end user services, national facilities services and national pharmacy operations. Before that, Daniels oversaw the company’s IT for health plan and hospital operations. Prior to joining Kaiser, he served four-year stints as senior vice president of IT at Capital One Financial Corp.COF -0.52% and JP Morgan Chase & Co.
Despite these roles, spread over 30 years in IT, Mr. Daniels wasn’t an immediate lock for the job. Kaiser Permanente said it interviewed several “highly qualified” candidates during a national search before concluding that Mr. Daniels was the right choice to lead its IT organization.
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That organization’s mandate includes using mobile software and analytics to support 9.6 million members and customers. Mr. Daniels is continuing the work done by Mr. Fasano, who led the $4 billion construction of Kaiser’s electronic health records system. Kaiser analyzes data captured from the EHR system to improve patient outcomes and help the health-care provider monitor patient activities, such as failure to refill prescriptions.
Date: February 9, 2015