Business Chief USA October 2020
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KETTERING HEALTH NETWORK<br />
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“We believe that<br />
caring for patients<br />
and their families<br />
in our hospitals,<br />
physician offices,<br />
imaging centres and<br />
emergency rooms<br />
is sacred work”<br />
—<br />
Andrew Lehman,<br />
CIO and Senior VP<br />
Lehman, <strong>Chief</strong> Information Officer<br />
and Senior Vice President.<br />
He explains that this mission drives<br />
the IT strategy of the organisation. “It<br />
is all about improving the quality of<br />
life for the people in the communities<br />
we serve. Within Kettering Health<br />
Network’s Information Systems<br />
division, we have a vision statement<br />
of ‘Only value’, which speaks to<br />
the need for us to maximize value<br />
delivery. There’s a lot of work many<br />
IT organisations do that may not add<br />
value, for example fixing broken computers<br />
or resolving a network outage.<br />
Obviously, we’ve got to spend time<br />
resolving those problems, but if we<br />
didn’t have those kinds of issues, we<br />
could be deploying our resources on<br />
priorities to advance the strategies<br />
of the organization. Our vision of<br />
‘Only value’ emphasizes value delivery,<br />
which ultimately achieves the<br />
Kettering Health Network mission. “<br />
Over the last four years, Kettering<br />
has implemented several important<br />
new solutions, both internally, such<br />
as how it transforms data from<br />
across the network into actionable<br />
information, and externally with its<br />
OCTOBER <strong>2020</strong>
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