Small Hospital is Big News
Parkview Adventist Medical Center and its CIO Bill McQuaid were recently recognized in multiple national and regional publications, for their forward-thinking approach to using I.T. in health care.
Parkview Adventist Medical Center (Brunswick, ME) has been emerging in recent weeks as a hospital of small size, but mighty stature. The facility and its CIO Bill McQuaid have been making regional and national headlines for undertaking a secure, cost-effective, and meaningful approach to EHR use.
This month, McQuaid was one of 100 I.T. Leaders named to ComputerWorld magazine's 2010 list, which highlights executives across a wide spectrum of industries who are driving positive change through technology. As one of the few hospital CIOs represented,
McQuaid was praised for his commitment to pursuing innovative strategies, while keeping his hospital thriving and sustaining employee loyalty through difficult economic times.
This accomplishment comes right on the heels of another major honor, as last month McQuaid was also named one of five finalists for Chief Security Officer of the Year by
SC
Magazine, a publication for computer security professionals. Finalists for this year’s SC Awards represented a cross-section of the security industry’s best-in-class, and McQuaid was acknowledged for enhancing Parkview Adventist's reputation as a premier site for state-of-the-art I.T. technologies and practices—which also resulted in cost savings, increased productivity, improved security, and superior patient care.
The Times Record, a regional newspaper for mid-coastal Maine, also took note of McQuaid's homegrown health care successes, and interviewed him for a front page article
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2), appropriately titled, "Parkview's Mr. IT." The story highlights Parkview Adventist's I.T. journey, from best-of-breed software to an integrated MEDITECH HCIS, as well as the facility's achievement of securing Stage 6 EMR Adoption recognition from HIMSS Analytics.
An accompanying Times Record editorial also recognized Parkview Adventist as being "ahead of the EHR curve," citing that the hospital is already doing what the federal government's ARRA legislation seeks to accomplish at all health care organizations by 2015.
Congratulations to Bill McQuaid and Parkview Adventist for this well-deserved recognition!