John P. McDaniel Named Chief Information Officer
04/09/2008
Contact: Mary Mooney
212-604-2675
New York, NY; January 16, 2008 - Saint Vincent Catholic Medical Centers (Saint Vincent's) today announced the appointment of John P. McDaniel as Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer. Mr. McDaniel has more than 25 years of experience in healthcare information systems management, and he will be responsible for guiding St. Vincent's efforts to enhance its technological infrastructure as it relates to new care-delivery models.
'John McDaniel is a creative, accomplished and solution-oriented individual,' said Henry Amoroso, Saint Vincent's President and CEO. 'He has the talent, experience and skills to lead organizational change for information technology growth, especially in clinical applications, and to take on the challenge of helping to create New York's first all-new digital hospital. We know he will bring a strong knowledgebase and level of sophistication to this task.'
Mr. McDaniel joins Saint Vincent's from Siemens Medical Systems where he served as a project director with executive responsibility for key client accounts. He comes to Saint Vincent's with significant expertise in building technological infrastructures for academic medical centers, large specialty and multi-specialty clinics. He has developed and managed corporate-wide implementations of medical software applications in both clinical and non-clinical areas.
Prior to joining Siemens, Mr. McDaniel was president of Health Care Strategic Solutions, a consulting firm where he developed and managed projects related to clinic information systems and the utilization and integration of electronic record keeping processes for a number of large medical centers. He has also served as vice president and chief information officer at the four-hospital, 1,250-bed McLaren Health Care Corporation in Michigan, Director Medical Informatics at Emory University System of Healthcare, and Chief Information Officer of The Emory Clinic in Atlanta.
'It is exciting to become part of the rich history of Saint Vincent's,' said John McDaniel, new Chief Information Officer of Saint Vincent's. 'Executive management and physician leadership's continued commitment to improving already exceptional level and quality of patient care enabled by enterprise-wide access to integrated patient clinical history will improve both patient and physician satisfaction and access.'
Mr. McDaniel holds a B.S. in Business Administration from Wright State University.
About Saint Vincent's
Saint Vincent Catholic Medical Centers (Saint Vincent's) is anchored by St. Vincent's Hospital Manhattan, an academic medical center located in Greenwich Village, St. Vincent's Westchester, a behavioral health hospital in Westchester County, and continuing care services that include two skilled nursing facilities in Brooklyn, another on Staten Island, a hospice, and a home health agency serving the Metropolitan New York area. Its behavioral health services also provide supportive housing programs for people with mental illness throughout the Metropolitan area. Saint Vincent's is the designated provider for the New York and New Jersey region of the US Family Health Plan sponsored by the US Department of Defense.
Saint Vincent's serves as the academic medical center of New York Medical College in New York City. The healthcare organization is sponsored by the Roman Catholic Bishop of Brooklyn and the president of the Sisters of Charity of New York.
