HELEN V. THOMPSON

MS, PMP, LCHIME, FABC
CDR, MSC, USN-RETIRED
CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
SENIOR IT STRATEGIST
SENIOR HEALTHCARE IT STRATEGIST

Helen has more than 30 years of healthcare experience in the commercial and military healthcare across various levels of care, including acute, ambulatory, sub-acute, behavioral and long-term care, as well as payers. She is a recognized thought leader in healthcare informatics as a chief information officer (CIO), leadership coach, consultant, author and international speaker. Ms. Thompson has successfully championed, designed and led the implementation of the clinical information systems to support excellent patient care and served as an advocate for using information technology in the clinical setting. During her career, Helen has assisted 6+ healthcare systems with electronic health record (EHR) implementations and optimizations enabling clinicians and administrators to leverage information technology to drive business value. She also established and operationalized three health information exchanges. She was a member of team that won the 2009 Malcolm Baldrige Award. She has proven experience in collaborating with quality, clinical and medical leaders to ensure physician and staff adoption, create project score cards; metrics tracked improvements in clinical safety and quality improvement, business efficiencies gained, and return on technology investment (ROI).

Helen has served as a Senior VP/IT Advisor, an Interim CTO, Interim CIO and CIO for various organization coaching the executive team and the IT teams on topics like IT Governance, leadership, team building and IT strategy. She has led transformations initiatives for the various organizations allowing them to leverage their technology investments. She a thought leader and published author on best practice models for technology governance with the full engagement of the board and medical staff in technology decision making. Helen also retired from a notable military career, serving as deputy CIO of Strategy and Vision, Naval Reserve Forces; communications officer/CIO, EMF Dallas in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom; and medical CIO assignments for Joint Forces Command Surgeon , Great Lakes Naval Hospital and Naval Medical Center Portsmouth.