Webinar
Ed Ricks
M.H.A., CHCIO
Managing Director
+1 (843) 521 7191
Ed Ricks is a managing director with Baker Tilly’s digital solutions practice. He has more than 21 years of executive level experience as a CIO and COO in health systems. He also has five years of experience leading advanced patient care solution strategies for a large healthcare IT integrator. Ed's primary focus is on operational excellence creating efficiencies to reduce expense, improve outcomes and improve clinician and patient experience through strategic utilization of IT systems.
- Workflow automation using artificial intelligence systems to improve the clinical care delivery process, reducing expense and improving experience
- Data center optimization strategies, reducing the complexity of IT environments with proven cloud strategies keeping a focus on clinical care continuity
- Healthcare IT strategic planning
- Healthcare IT leadership mentoring
- Certified Healthcare CIO (CHCIO) through College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME)
- National speaker at CHIME, HIMSS and other U.S. and international healthcare IT events
- Selected as “100 Hospital and Health System CIOs to Know” by Becker’s Hospital Review in multiple years and named a finalist for “CIO of the Year”
- Led Health Systems to achieve a “Most Wired Hospital” status as designated by CHIME 12 times
Location
Chicago, IL
Education
Master of Health Administration
University of North Carolina
Bachelor of Science in computer science
Central Michigan University
