BAPTIST HEALTH OF ARKANSAS
Baptist
Health : Compassionate healthcare enabled by technology
In a nutshell , Baptist Health exists to provide quality , patient-centred services , to promote and protect the voluntary , not-for-profit healthcare system , to provide top-notch health education , and to respond to the changing health needs of Arkansas ’ residents with both Christian compassion and personal concern .
“We ' re shifting how we do medical care ! That ' s important in a faith-based organisation ”
MICHAEL ELLEY CIO , BAPTIST HEALTH OF ARKANSAS
The CIO ' s task of modernisation As well as growing in size , Baptist Health has continued to keep up with best practice , both administrative and medical – over the last three decades , of course , this has meant adopting successive iterations of technology .
The more recent journey has been the responsibility of CIO Michael Elley , who joined the company nearly five years ago . He brought with him 15 years of experience in senior positions – most of them based in the healthcare sector – and now heads up a leadership team of 14 with some 270 technical people across the wider organisation .
“ These teams manage all of our Electronic Medical Records ( EMR ) and ERP , through to our technology stack , cybersecurity and all the other technological platforms and applications we all depend on these days . And , of course , we also work closely with the leadership team and wider colleagues , including the nurses and clinicians at our facilities .”
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