Mary Alice Annecharico has served as CIO of multiple leading healthcare organizations, including the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia and University Hospitals of Cleveland. She was appointed senior vice president and CIO of Henry Ford in 2011, where she was a member of the team that spearheaded an enterprisewide Epic implementation across the health system’s six hospitals, ambulatory environments and included the revenue cycle transformation.
Here is a small talk with her.
Mary Alice Annecharico envisioned connecting the dots – managing the outcomes of care with technology before others, due to her earlier career as a nursing leadership. She feels that earlier experience has paved a way to move ahead as CIO.
Mary Alice Annecharico has tried to create statewide health information exchanges and she said it is significant under value-based care. She further added
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“We need to look at what data is essential for us to exchange, so we know if someone’s care rendered at one organization is associated with something another organization has done. The goal was to enable larger provider organizations and smaller provider organizations to gain access to the same information, which would help us manage our patient populations more efficiently.”
Mary Alice Annecharico said that their major goal this year is the integration of their EHR environment to Epic. The conversion will be effective in August, and later it will be transited to their financial systems and Allegiance health’s business-related applications to Henry Ford’s environment, as well. Creating harmony among systems is also one of her main aims this year. Sharing information with providers who are not on Epic through Allegiance Health’s portal is also one of her objectives this year.
Mary Alice Annecharico seemed very excited to learn advancing standards, especially with HIEs and foresees national and international data sharing arising within the next couple of years.
She also shared her curiosity on various aspects like use of data, data to manage the population, patients genetic makeup, precision medicine for cancer hospital were few among them.
She concluded saying,
“The future is a pearl that we are ready to explore and whose outcomes will become more data-, quality- and cost-driven. Our bottom line is the prediction that care will be navigated through analytics that will enable us to predict and prescribe the most effective pathways.”
Date: June 13, 2017