Craig Richardville Named New Intermountain Healthcare Chief Digital And Information Officer Following Merger With SCL Health

With the latest merger announcement of Intermountain Healthcare with SCL Well being, Craig Richardville has been named the brand new chief digital and knowledge officer and senior vp for the mixed well being programs, which might be referred to as Intermountain Healthcare.

As a member of the enterprise management staff, Richardville’s duties will embody the well being system’s info expertise, knowledge and digital providers involving all elements of expertise together with, however not restricted to, technique, operations, purposes, cybersecurity, and rising expertise.

Richardville beforehand served as senior vp, chief info and digital officer, at SCL Well being, the place his duties included main, innovating, and remodeling all elements of the well being system’s info expertise and digital providers.

Richardville famous that his priorities together with an orientation towards being cellular first, cloud first and, finally, affected person first. “Cellular first locations entry to well being providers into the pockets of the sufferers, members and shoppers through their smartphones,” he defined. “This can be a trusted supply of fact, simple to entry and one of many most popular engagement platforms in an omni channel world. Cloud first gives ubiquitous entry to knowledge in a secure and safe surroundings ubiquitous entry to knowledge, info and information. Affected person first places the affected person is within the heart. They’re the guts of our work and contains associated personas, comparable to members with reference to our well being plan and shoppers who’re wanting to select. All of our work revolves across the affected person, the member and the buyer.”

“Intermountain Healthcare has lengthy been a frontrunner in utilizing expertise to enhance scientific outcomes for sufferers and is utilizing superior intelligence to assist suppliers in scientific choice making,” stated Dan Liljenquist, senior vp and chief technique officer for Intermountain Healthcare. “Intermountain can be centered on utilizing digital instruments to assist alleviate repetitive job workload for suppliers and caregivers via automation, and assist improve affected person expertise with self-service purposes, permitting extra face-to-face time for provider-patient visits. Craig has the abilities to assist Intermountain proceed this necessary journey.”

Previous to his time at SCL, he served as senior vp and chief info and analytics officer at Atrium Well being for greater than 20 years, the place he reworked the rising firm right into a nationwide chief within the efficient use of expertise, using knowledge as a driver and digital providers as a differentiator.

Richardville obtained the 2021 Nationwide CIO of the 12 months Healthcare ORBIE Award, the 2020 Colorado CIO of the 12 months award, and in 2017, the Carolinas CIO of the 12 months for continued management and influence utilizing expertise and digital providers, amongst different awards. He holds a grasp’s diploma in enterprise administration and a bachelor’s diploma in pc programs from the College of Toledo.

Peter Excessive is President of Metis Strategy, a enterprise and IT advisory agency. He has written two bestselling books, and his third, Getting to Nimble, was not too long ago launched. He additionally moderates the Technovation podcast sequence and speaks at conferences around the globe. Observe him on Twitter @PeterAHigh.