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Tuesday, October 23, 2018

HIMSS Teams Up with CSweetener

Recognized by leading organizations as one of the top CIOs in the country, Craig Richardville most recently served as senior vice president and chief information and analytics officer with Carolinas HealthCare System. Over the years, Craig Richardville has been a key member of several healthcare-focused professional organizations, including the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS).

Women continue to represent an emerging and underserved demographic in health information technology. HIMSS has worked over the years to engage this group and empower them to succeed in the field. As part of that ongoing commitment, the organization recently announced a new collaboration with CSweetener, a nonprofit whose goals of gender equality in the workplace align with those of HIMSS.

CSweetner specializes in providing mentorship opportunities. Through the new collaborative effort, HIMSS members will be able to participate in mentoring programs with CSweetner at a 10 percent discount. Through this program, which will consist of both online and in-person mentoring sessions, HIMSS hopes to address the pay gap and other issues plaguing women in the IT healthcare sector.

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An MBA graduate of the University of Toledo, Craig Richardville began his accomplished career in the information analysis and services sector as lead systems analyst for USX-Marathon Oil Company in 1986. In his position with the Findlay, Ohio, company, he developed procedures to design and test computer programs and systems. Craig Richardville also spearheaded initiatives to improve workflow efficiency during this time.

As his career developed, Craig Richardville transitioned into the healthcare information sector when he accepted a position as lead senior systems analyst with ProMedica Health System in Toledo, Ohio. Over the next decade, Mr. Richardville held a series of positions of increasing responsibility with the company, eventually serving as the vice president and executive director of ProMedica’s for-profit division, Vanguard Health Ventures.

Craig Richardville drew upon this experience when he joined Carolinas HealthCare System as the senior director of information services in 1997. He went on to serve Carolinas HealthCare for two decades, most recently as senior vice president and chief information and analytics officer for the last 11 of those years. In this role, in addition to information services, he guided other areas including the company’s health information management, cybersecurity and clinical engineering programs. His numerous accomplishments in this position included leading the system's digital transformation with achieving HIMSS EMRAM Level 7 for Acute and Ambulatory realizing millions of dollars in federal reimbursements, many innovative consumer strategies including consuming patient-generated data through home device integration, one of the first in the country to use Amazon Alexa and voice input for home access to patients, analytics as a foundation for population health and the transition to value, and many affordability initiatives including optimization of the EMR saving 40,000 nursing hours per year. Craig Richardville did all of this while maintaining an operating contribution greater than peer organizations and maintaing top decile teammate engagement reaching as high as the 99th in multiple years.