FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: May 9, 2006
Contact: Joan Shnipper (jshnipper@umm.edu) 410-328-6776
Ellen Beth Levitt (eblevitt@umm.edu) 410-328-8919
Jon P. Burns, a senior information technology executive with more than 20 years of health care experience, has been appointed Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer for the University of Maryland Medical System.
Burns comes from the Cleveland Clinic Foundation and Cleveland Clinic Health System, where he served as Senior Executive for Information Technology. In that role, he was the Chief Information Officer of the Cleveland Clinic and also was responsible for all information technology budgeting and infrastructure across the Cleveland Clinic Health System.
“We are very excited to welcome Jon Burns to our management team. He has demonstrated outstanding leadership in coordinating information technology services with multiple hospitals, clinics, and physician organizations,” said Edmond F. Notebaert, President and Chief Executive Officer of the University of Maryland Medical System.
Notebaert notes that one of Burns’ major accomplishments at the Cleveland Clinic was the integration of all outpatient information technology from four hospitals into one system. Previously, all of those hospitals and their 1,300 physicians had different IT systems.
“Jon Burns’ outstanding, successful track record and experience with IT integration will be very important to us as we implement one unified information technology system to enhance patient care and streamline our health care delivery,” says Notebaert. “Our new IT project will bring together all six hospitals in the University of Maryland Medical System as well as 180 outpatient offices, including those run by our partner, the University of Maryland School of Medicine,” Notebaert adds.
Prior to joining the Cleveland Clinic Foundation and Health System in 1998, Burns was Vice President and Chief Information Officer at Forum Health-Western Reserve Healthcare Corporation in Youngstown, Ohio. There, he was responsible for information technology and services, health information records and physician services. Previously, he had served as the Director of Patient Services and Associate Director of Fiscal Services at the University of North Carolina Hospitals in Chapel Hill.
Earlier in his career, Burns worked for the Geisinger Health System in Danville, PA. where, as Assistant Director of Business Services, he was responsible for a variety of functions, including data processing, registration, revenue control, billing, admitting, and collections.
Burns is a 1984 graduate of Bloomsburg University in Bloomsburg, PA., with a bachelor’s of science degree in business administration management.
The University of Maryland Medical System includes the University of Maryland Medical Center, Baltimore Washington Medical Center, Maryland General Hospital, Kernan Orthopaedic and Rehabilitation Hospital, University Specialty Hospital and Mt. Washington Pediatric Hospital. It has more than 11,000 employees and 1,700 licensed beds.
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