Sue Schade, chief information officer at University of Michigan Hospitals and Health Centers, plans to leave that role and will instead focus on consulting, coaching and interim management work after spending more than 30 years leading IT departments.
Before joining University of Michigan Hospitals and Health Centers in 2012, where she led the deployment of its new EHR, Schade was CIO for 12 years at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston.
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"You need to own your own career and be open to the possibilities," the healthcare pro has longed advised others in her field. Now she is just taking her own counsel. She announced earlier this month she would step away from the post she has held for the past three years and move closer to her daughters and grandchildren in New England.
Schade, who wants more flexibility in her work, begins January 25 in Cleveland as interim CIO at University Hospitals Health System, working with Next Wave Health Advisors.
Schade joins other well known Next Wave Health Advisors: Bill Spooner, former CIO at Sharp HealthCare in San Diego; Lynn Vogel, former CIO at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston and Dave Garets, among whose past titles was president and CEO of HIMSS Analytics.
“One of the key responsibilities of senior leaders is to build a strong leadership team – I have full confidence that our IT leaders will be able to build on the great work we’ve been doing in the coming year,” Schade wrote in a January 7 blog post.
CHIME and HIMSS in 2014 recognized her work with the John E. Gall Jr. CIO of the Year award.
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"In every respect, Sue personifies the ideals for which this award was created and the legacy of the man for whom it is named," said Andrew Rosenberg MD, chief medical information officer at University of Michigan Health System, at the time.
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Rosenberg, who also serves as an executive director for reporting and analytics on the IT team, will serve as interim CIO at Michigan.
Schade is looking forward to learning a new health system and working with its IT team. She expects to be serving as interim CIO at University Health System for the next several months. After that, she expects more interim work, she says, and also expects to do more leadership coaching and Lean consulting.
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