Industry expert brings more than 30 years of experience to CMIO role
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – March 4, 2014 – The HCI Group, a leading provider of health care information technology strategy and enterprise consulting services to health care organizations, has named Dr. William Bria as its chief medical information officer.
In this role, Bria will bring 30 years of applied medical informatics leadership and experience to today’s HIT challenges to improve patient care. He will evaluate healthcare organizations’ IT systems; design and apply EMR/EHR software and applications; convert and analyze medical and health data; ensure quality of care across multiple information systems; leverage medical and health data to improve services and daily operations; and train physicians and other medical professionals in IT systems and applications, especially EMR/EHR and computerized physician order entry.
“Bringing Dr. Bria on as our CMIO adds significant depth to our thought leadership team and ability to tackle the ever-growing challenges facing healthcare,” said Ricky Caplin, CEO of the HCI Group. “His more than 30 years of experience in clinical informatics gives him a vast and unique insight that will serve our clients well.”
Bria’s career began at Baystate Medical Center, where he managed the selection of an institution-wide, integrated results reporting/CPOE system. He then served as CMIO for Shriners Hospitals for Children in Tampa, Fla., directing the medical informatics plan (Cerner) for the 22-hospital system across the US, Canada and Mexico. This included implementation of an integrated EHR in each hospital and formulating and implementing clinical decision support and business intelligence for the system.
Prior to joining SHC, he was medical director of clinical information systems and clinical associate professor of medicine for the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Mich. In this role, he planned and implemented the organization’s enterprise-wide clinical information systems including development of CareWeb, the core clinical information system at the university, which is used by more than 4,000 physicians and nurses each day for inpatient and ambulatory patient care information, dictated document editing and e-signature.
Bria is a sought-after and influential industry expert, contributing to countless publications and presentations addressing the relationship between physicians and informatics. In 2013, Modern Healthcare named him to its list of 50 Most Influential Physician Executives. Additionally, he is the co-founder and chairman of the board for the Association of Medical Directors of Information Systems.
Bria earned his bachelor’s degree in biology, pre-med, and his masters and doctorate degrees from Georgetown University. He interned at Emory University, and then concluded specialty training in pulmonary critical care medicine for two years at Harvard University-Massachusetts General Hospital Fellowship.
About the HCI Group
The HCI Group is a health IT company with headquarters in Jacksonville, Fla. and international headquarters in the United Kingdom, with activities across the U.S., U.K. and Middle East. It offers a broad scope of IT solutions, helping hospitals plan, implement and sustain enterprise information technology systems over the long term. Its services include enterprise IT system implementation and training, specialty service lines in optimization, clinical adoption, integration and testing, go-live and advisory services. The HCI Group’s clients include Johns Hopkins, Tenet Healthcare and UMC Health System (Texas Tech) in the U.S., as well as health systems in the United Kingdom and the Middle East.
Inc. Magazine recognized the HCI Group as the fastest-growing private health care company and the third fastest-growing company overall in the nation on its 2013 Inc. 500 list. Learn more about the HCI Group by visiting www.thehcigroup.com.
