Health care IT consultancy selects industry veteran with experience in more than 100 EHR implementations
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 Robert Steele, formerly senior director of applied clinical informatics at the corporate level for Tenet Healthcare, Dallas, Texas, as its senior vice president of delivery operations. In this role, Steele will focus on delivering oversight and strategic guidance to the HCI Group’s current service lines.
“Bob has helped lead some of the largest IT initiatives in health care and he possesses a deep understanding of the business issues facing hospitals,” said Ricky Caplin, CEO of the HCI Group. “There are few clinicians of his caliber who understand the growing complexities of health care information technology. The diverse background and seasoned experience that Bob brings to the company is rare, and we are pleased to have someone of his caliber on our team as we expand our services and operations in the U.S. and around the world.”
Steele’s background includes serving in a senior leadership role where he was responsible for health care EMR application standardization, build and integration testing, pre go-live training, readiness assessment, implementation/ go-live command center operations, optimization adoption and sustainment and optimization. Additionally, he has strong finance and budgeting experience related to system implementations and national certification as a CPC. He also brings extensive clinical, managerial and informatics skills in all levels of health care institutions including major academic medical centers, multi-facility health care systems and some of the top pediatric hospitals in the country. In 2012, Steele led his team at Tenet Healthcare Inc. in achieving the “Best Hospital IT/Implementation Department,” as awarded by Healthcare IT.
He has a proven track record serving as an integral part of executive teams that have successfully undertaken EMR implementation and received ARRA incentive funds for more than 100 facilities. His professional appointments include senior clinical director emergency/trauma services at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital and interim CNO/admin director of emergency/trauma services at John Peter Smith Hospital in Fort Worth, Texas.
Steele is an active member of the American Academy of Certified Professional Coders and a voting Council Member of the National HealthTech Council.
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.
