Jim has 30+ years’ experience as a healthcare IT executive and consultant. He has worked in large provider organizations (including an academic medical center), consulting, and higher education.  He has the ability to do both strategy and implementation work based on his career experience.

Jim has held numerous leadership roles within healthcare IT throughout his career.  He has built and managed large Project Management Offices (PMO’s), clinical and business application teams, software development, clinical engineering, and most recently data and analytics teams.  Jim also has significant experience managing healthcare IT operations including vendor relationships, managed services, outsourcing/insourcing, mergers and acquisitions, large construction projects’ technology programs, and healthcare IT operating budgets in the $250m range. 

Before Himformatics, Jim was the Chief Data Information Officer (CDIO) at Penn Medicine in the Philadelphia area.  The organization spans six hospitals, over 45,000 employees and included IT support for the School of Medicine and the associated research activities for Penn. Jim’s career also includes prior experience in healthcare IT consulting with First Consulting Group (now CSC), where he spent several years supporting the military healthcare system (TRICARE) and the National Institutes of Health.

Jim is holds adjunct faculty appointments at Temple University's College of Public Health and Widener University's Graduate School of Business (Healthcare Management Program) teaching project management, process management, and analytics. Jim has a Master of Business Administration (Healthcare Management) and a Bachelor of Science in Information Systems from Widener University.