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.

Adrienne Edens, FCHIME, LCHIME, CHCIO is VP of Education for CHIME. Her career in healthcare information systems extends over 40 years including experience in HIT consulting and 25 years as a CIO.

As the VP and CIO for the Valley Area of Sutter Health Adrienne lead the consolidation of the IS organizations of 2 previous regions into an integrated operational unit supporting 10 hospitals and 2000 foundation physicians. While at Sutter she was involved in a number of strategic initiatives to improve operational performance and completed the Rona Certified Lean Workshop Leader program.

As the CIO for St. Luke’s Health System in Boise, Idaho, she engaged the organization in developing a physician led strategy for the electronic medical record to consolidate EHRs from 14 to one. This approach provided the means to integrate a widely distributed system of hospitals, physician offices, clinics and rural critical access hospitals. While at St. Luke’s she served as a member of the board of the state wide HIE, the Idaho Health Data Exchange.

As the Information Officer for National Health Plan systems for Kaiser Permanente she led the program to achieve compliance with Medicare Part D for the Kaiser regions and developed the first deductible plan capabilities for the California regions.

As Regional CIO for the Sacramento Region and Information Officer, Northern California for Dignity Health (formerly Catholic Healthcare West), Adrienne managed the process of integrating systems for hospitals joining the region. She also developed and implemented IT governance, strategic plans and shared systems for multiple regions within the organization.

Prior to these positions she served as Practice Director, Pacific Northwest, for First Consulting Group where she led a number of strategic IT planning engagements, vendor selections, contract negotiations and application implementation projects for healthcare financial and clinical systems.

Her background includes experience as a consultant at Arthur Andersen & Co. and as Product Manager for clinical systems development and Director of Implementation for system projects to support 90 hospitals and associated divisional and corporate users at American Medical International.

Adrienne holds a Bachelor’s Degree in English from the University of California at Davis and a Master’s Degree in Applied Psychology from the University of Santa Monica. She is a charter member and past Board member of CHIME and a past Board member of HIMSS, HIMSS Analytics, and the Boise Art Museum. She is currently serving as a member of the panel of judges for the first annual HIMSS Most Influential Women in Health IT Awards and as a mentor to one of the Carole C Emmott Fellows.

Keith Fraidenburg has more than 20 years of experience working within the healthcare IT industry, including nearly 16 years of association management experience. In his role as Executive VP and Chief Strategy Officer, he is responsible for providing overall leadership and tactical execution of the organization’s strategic plan while identifying and cultivating new growth opportunities in support of the organization’s long-term strategic goals. He also maintains primary responsibility for the organization’s advocacy and public policy efforts and its platform of education programs and services. In doing so, he works closely with senior healthcare IT executives, key industry leaders, and industry association partners, including the American Hospital Association (AHA), American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA), Healthcare Information Management Systems Society (HIMSS) and others to keenly understand the issues, concerns, and needs of healthcare information executives.

In his previous role as VP of Education and Communications for CHIME, Mr. Fraidenburg was responsible for leading the education, marketing and communications programs and services available through CHIME.

In addition to his responsibilities within CHIME, Mr. Fraidenburg is a member of the American Society of Association Executives (ASAE) and Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS).

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.

Dr. Stephanie Lahr serves as the CIO and CMIO for Regional Health, the largest healthcare provider in Western South Dakota. Dr Lahr joined the Regional Health team in April 2016 to lead the clinical aspects of their EHR unification project. In January of 2018 Dr Lahr added the role of CIO and is now responsible for the strategy and management of the Information Technology Division for the health system and is a member of the senior executive team. She loves the intersection of technology and medicine and is passionate about improving the tools available to let clinicians do what they do best, which is care for patients. Prior to her role at Regional Health Dr Lahr was the Medical Director of IT at Kootenai Health in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, a role she developed during her 8 years there as a hospitalist.

Stephanie attended medical school and completed Internal Medicine residency at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, Texas. She is Board Certified in Internal Medicine and Clinical Informatics and is a CHIME certified CHCIO. Stephanie is married with two wonderful kiddos, she is a small town girl at heart, raised in Montana but loves traveling the world, meeting people, eating great food and all forms of shopping.

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.