Rod Dykehouse joined Penn State Hershey Medical Center and College of Medicine as CIO in July, 2012. Annually, Penn State Hershey Medical Center admits nearly 30,000 patients and provides care for approximately 1,100,000 outpatient and 70,000 emergency-service visits in central Pennsylvania. Penn State Hershey Medical Center has over 10,000 employees and 400 volunteers, and the College of Medicine enrolls 800 students annually. The Penn State Health System was formed in 2016 with the addition of Penn State Health St. Joseph Hospital in Reading, PA. Rod was named the CIO for the Health System, which together with the College of Medicine represent approximately $2B in net revenues.

As CIO, Rod Dykehouse is responsible for the effective deployment, adoption, use, and support of information technologies across the entire clinical, academic and research enterprise. Since 2012, the following has been accomplished:

– Established IT Governance process across the enterprise, representing the clinical, research and academic missions – Deployed the ambulatory EMR is across all clinic locations for approximately 1,000 Medical Group providers
– Gained budget and design approval for a newly activated $54M 3MW Tier 2+ Data Center with a second one located on the PSU main campus to serve as a DR site
– Developed i2b2 research database to leverage EMR and other data – Initiated strategy and execution of Enterprise Information Mgmt “Data” strategy
– Supported the opening of the new Penn State Hershey Children’s Hospital
– Supported the acquisition and integration of St. Joe’s Reading Hospital
– Establishing an IT Shared Service Team to support the growing Health System

Rod has extensive experience as a CIO in both academic medical centers and large health care systems. He previously served as CIO for both UCLA Medical Sciences, and Froedtert Health System, an academic partner of the Medical College of Wisconsin. At UCLA, Rod oversaw IT for the organizations’ medical centers, faculty practice groups and schools of medicine, including IT support for research initiatives. His CIO experience with large health systems was with St. John Health System in Detroit, Michigan, and ProHealth Care in Waukesha, Wisconsin.

Rod is an active member of CHIME, having served on the CHIME Board and CHIME Foundation Board, including as Chair for both. He was awarded the CHIME Federal Public Policy Award for CIO Leadership, serves on the Policy Steering Committee, is a CHIME Fellow and faculty member of the CHIME CIO Boot Camp.

Rod holds a master’s degree in health administration from the University of Michigan and a bachelor’s degree from Kalamazoo College. He has more than 25 years of experience in IT management. He is also a lecturer for the Penn State Master of Public Health program.

Marc Probst is the CIO and VP at Intermountain Healthcare, an integrated delivery network (IDN) based in Salt Lake City, Utah. Probst is nationally recognized as a CIO and served on the Federal Healthcare Information Technology Policy Committee which assisted in developing HIT Policy for the U.S. Government.

Probst has been involved with information technology and healthcare services for the past 32 years. Prior to Intermountain, Probst was a partner with two large professional service organizations; Deloitte Consulting and Ernst & Young, serving healthcare provider and payer organizations. He has significant interest in the use of information technology to increase patient care quality and lower the costs of care. He is experienced in information technology planning, design, development, deployment and operation, as well as policy development for HIT related issues.

Probst serves or has served as a board member of several healthcare related organizations including the University of Utah School of Nursing, CHIME and the Utah Food Bank. He is a frequent speaker on health information system strategy, innovation, analytics, standards and policy. Probst has a passion for the power of HIT for public and population health within the United States and for health improvement worldwide.

George Reynolds, MD, retired in 2015 from Children’s Hospital & Medical Center in Omaha, Neb.,where he served as the CIO and CMIO. He now advises healthcare organizations on a range of healthcare IT initiatives including analytics and data governance, population health management, patient and physician engagement, and IT governance. He has a special interest in helping organizations develop efficient, lean project leadership and staffing.

He is board certified in Clinical Informatics, Pediatric Critical Care and General Pediatrics. Prior to his transition to the CIO role, he directed the PICUs at Children’s and the Nebraska Medical Center. He also holds a master’s degree in Medical Management from Carnegie Mellon University. He has been recognized as Healthcare Informatics’ Innovator of the year for Children’s Analytics program, as well as the AMDIS Award in Applied Medical Informatics. Modern Healthcare named him one of the 25 top Clinical Informaticists and Becker’s Healthcare included him in their 25 CMIOs to know list.

Sarah Richardson is a transformative, inspirational and results-driven business and technology executive who operates within large-scale healthcare and hospitality environments. She attains aggressive goals, catalyzes change and advances sustainability by designing and executing high performance-based strategies, cultivating top-tier talent, infusing expectations and accountabilities, instilling customer-centric practices and forging collaborative cultures.

Sarah is one of those people who ‘gets things done’ and has a penchant for bringing out the best in people. With an enthusiastic and genuinely friendly attitude, Sarah radiates a sincere passion for delivering value and benefits to the teams she leads and serves. She has built award-winning teams and has been recognized by The Kansas City Business Journal as a ‘Woman Who Means Business’, a “Next Gen Leader’, and a ‘Rising Star’ by KC Business Magazine.

With a B.S. in Hospitality Administration and a Master’s in Business, Sarah spent six years in the hotel and casino industry in Las Vegas, NV, before making the purposeful decision that she could create more meaningful results for more people if she moved into the healthcare industry. Her first 5 years in healthcare began as an IT Administrator at University Medical Center in Las Vegas, NV, where she then began her ten-year career with HCA (Hospital Corporation of America).

Promoted three times in her ten-year tenure with HCA, culminating in a Division CIO position, Sarah’s contributions centered on leading the development and delivery of IT in a shared service model along with scalable operational programs and improvement activities. She is most proud that her work focused on building long-lasting, loyal relationships across the continuum, resulting in collaborative strategies to meet project delivery needs, productivity gains, and the use of technology to advance patient care resulting in better outcomes. Her ability to coordinate teams of technology experts, strategic business partners, physicians, and clinicians, has enabled her to repeatedly deliver programs, services, and tailored solutions in the healthcare setting.

Currently, Sarah serves as the California Market CIO for HealthCare Partners as well as the interim Nevada Market CIO, both DaVita Medical Groups in El Segundo, CA and Las Vegas, NV.  Since 1992, HealthCare Partners has been committed to developing innovative models of healthcare delivery that improve their patients’ quality of life while containing healthcare costs. Their strength is in their steadfast commitment to their guiding principle of coordinated care. Their physicians strive daily to bring the benefits of coordinated care to more than 600,000 managed care patients in California, who represent the diversity of cultures, socioeconomic groups, ages, and health statuses in the communities they serve.

An active member of CHIME as a Certified Healthcare CIO (CHCIO) and Associate Faculty Member, Sarah is also the current Vice President of Advocacy for the Southern California chapter of HIMSS.  Sarah regularly publishes industry relevant content on her website at www.conciergeleadership.com and is the host of the HIMSS SoCal Podcast  featuring top HIT and leadership topics with keynote guests.  She also volunteers her time as a board member with theLos Angeles Children’s Bureau, is a Certified Professional Coach, and is currently enrolled in the UCLA Extension program, seeking a certification in Healthcare Management. She is an avid scuba diver with a passion for conservation.

Timothy Stettheimer, PhD, is Vice President of Education for the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME), a 2,400-plus member professional organization.  In this role, Dr. Stettheimer leads all education strategy for members and affiliate associations, as well as international efforts. Education initiatives include CHIME’s Fall and Spring Forums, CIO Bootcamps, Leadership Academies as well as other summits, workshops and symposia. Dr. Stettheimer has previously served as a healthcare CIO for two decades and has worked with healthcare information technology and healthcare leaders for twenty-five years.  He most recently served as the Regional Chief Information Officer (RCIO) for the South and Central Region of Ascension Information Services (AIS), which is made up of seven geographic markets as well as all senior living locations and all medical groups. As RCIO, Dr. Stettheimer was the regional leader responsible for AIS service delivery and technology visioning. He also guided governance models, served on Ascension-level committees, and supported diverse AIS functions such as goal sponsorship, compensation committee efforts, IT general control oversight, infrastructure governance, and AIS Model Community Survey action planning. Prior to his Ascension role, Dr. Stettheimer served as the Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer for St. Vincent’s Health System, Birmingham. In this role, he was responsible for managing the Health Ministry’s technology strategy, portfolio, and operations, while serving as the Health Ministry’s technology service delivery senior escalation point. He has also served in leadership roles at Adventist Health System and Children’s Medical Center of Dallas. Dr. Stettheimer earned a doctorate in information services focused in medical informatics, information theory and design, and information policy and management from the University of North Texas in Denton. He holds a master’s degree in applied cognition and neuroscience from the University of Texas in Dallas and a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Hardin-Simmons University in Abilene, Texas. Dr. Stettheimer is a fellow with both the American College of Healthcare Executives (FACHE) and the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (FCHIME). He is a member of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA), holds the Certified Healthcare CIO (CHCIO) credential, is a certified professional in healthcare information management systems (CPHIMS), and is a member of the Healthcare Information Management Systems Society (HIMSS). He served as a fellow through a National Institute of Health grant during his doctoral studies. Dr. Stettheimer has held faculty positions with the University of North Texas and the University of Alabama at Birmingham and serves on a number of non-profit boards. Dr. Stettheimer has earned the Certified Healthcare CIO distinction from the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME). He also served as the CHIME 2010 Board Chair, the 2011 CHIME Foundation Board Chair and the 2013-1014 CHIME Education Foundation Board Chair. Dr. Stettheimer and his wife Carol live in Birmingham, AL and are the parents of four children.