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HIMSS Appoints Harold “Hal” Wolf III as New President/Chief Executive Officer

by HITC Staff 07/26/2017 Leave a Comment

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HIMSS Appoints Harold “Hal” Wolf III as New President/Chief Executive Officer

HIMSS has announced the appointment of  Harold “Hal” Wolf III as its new president and CEO, succeeding H. Stephen Lieber. Wolf has served HIMSS for four years: two as an advisor to the board and two additional years as a member of the board of directors, recently as vice chair. He serves as a board member and officer of the International Care Delivery Alliance. His role and accomplishments on the HIMSS board illustrates his abilities to lead HIMSS to new heights as CEO.

“Hal Wolf brings to his new role as president and CEO of HIMSS the powerful combination of broad, deep and relevant knowledge, expertise, experience, energy and accomplishments, along with a deep love of and longstanding commitment to HIMSS. His track record of innovation and success spans premier healthcare delivery organizations, digital strategy groups, media companies, global endeavors and more,” said Dr. Michael Zaroukian, HIMSS board chair in a statement.

Prior to the HIMSS appointment, Hal served as the Director, Practice Leader of Information and Digital Health Strategy at healthcare management consulting firm The Chartis Group, where he lead firm in supporting providers and healthcare organizations in the development of integrated information, operations, digital health and precision medicine strategies.

Before joining The Chartis Group, Wolf was senior vice president and chief operating officer of Kaiser Permanente’s Permanente Federation, representing more than 16,000 physicians. He was responsible for the development and implementation of critical care delivery strategies, data management and governance, population care management environments and the implementation of unique innovations and large-scale programs that impacted end-to-end operations. Prior to Kaiser Permanente, Wolf worked as chief information officer for the e-business, corporate systems and wholesale division of Quest Communications/USWest.

 

 “It is a great privilege and honor to be chosen to lead HIMSS, an organization whose purpose is to improve healthcare and care outcomes.  Across the globe, healthcare is challenged to harness the power of information and technology, to solve for the unique environments of each health system and to support the personalization of care to the individual. In alliance with the growing membership of HIMSS and the expansive capabilities of our organization, our collective task is to enable innovation across the full healthcare ecosystem,” said Wolf in the statement.

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