John P. Glaser, PhD
"In Massachusetts, we have a strong history of collaboration across competing organizations and with our government colleagues - but we did not have a set of widely-accepted rules or tools for moving information among regions or to other parts of the country until the Connecting for Health work matured. We participated vigorously in the prototype NHIN project with our colleagues in Indiana and California and saw that a 'network of networks' was feasible. Connecting for Health has been both a forum for collaboration across interest groups and a platform for developing and testing real world solutions that provide value to us on the ground."
John Glaser, PhD, is Vice President and Chief Information Officer, Partners HealthCare System, Inc. Previously, he was Vice President, Information Systems at Brigham and Women's Hospital. Prior to Brigham and Women's Hospital, Dr. Glaser managed the Healthcare Information Systems consulting practice at Arthur D. Little.
Dr. Glaser was the founding Chairman of College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) and is past President of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS). He is past-President of the eHealth Initiative and has been a member of the Board of the American Medical Informatics Association.
Dr. Glaser is the Senior Advisor for National HIT Adoption for CHIME. He is a Senior Advisor to the Deloitte Center for Health Solutions.
He is a fellow of HIMSS, CHIME and the American College of Medical Informatics. He has been awarded the John Gall award for healthcare CIO of the year. CHIME has established a scholarship in Dr. Glaser's name. He was a recipient of CIO Magazine's 20/20 Vision Award. Partners HealthCare has received several industry awards for its effective and innovative use of information technology.
Dr. Glaser has published over one hundred articles and four books on the strategic application of information technology in healthcare.
He holds a PhD in Healthcare Information Systems from the University of Minnesota.
