KETTERING HEALTH NETWORK
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“ We believe that caring for patients and their families in our hospitals , physician offices , imaging centres and emergency rooms is sacred work ”
— Andrew Lehman , CIO and Senior VP
Lehman , Chief Information Officer and Senior Vice President .
He explains that this mission drives the IT strategy of the organisation . “ It is all about improving the quality of life for the people in the communities we serve . Within Kettering Health Network ’ s Information Systems division , we have a vision statement of ‘ Only value ’, which speaks to the need for us to maximize value delivery . There ’ s a lot of work many IT organisations do that may not add value , for example fixing broken computers or resolving a network outage . Obviously , we ’ ve got to spend time resolving those problems , but if we didn ’ t have those kinds of issues , we could be deploying our resources on priorities to advance the strategies of the organization . Our vision of ‘ Only value ’ emphasizes value delivery , which ultimately achieves the Kettering Health Network mission . “
Over the last four years , Kettering has implemented several important new solutions , both internally , such as how it transforms data from across the network into actionable information , and externally with its
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