Healthcare

MITCIO
John Glaser
CIO
Partners Healthcare System

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 elected to CIO Magazine’s CIO Hall of Fame.. 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 Ph.D. in Healthcare Information Systems from the University of Minnesota.