Announced April 21, 2003:  Pete Velez, Executive Director of Elmhurst (N.Y.) Hospital Center and Senior Vice President of Queens Healthcare Network is a recipient and co-winner of the 2003 CEO IT Achievement Award.

 

The 2003 CEO IT Achievement Award is sponsored by Modern Healthcare and the Chicago-based Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS). This is a very prestigious award and follows the CPRI Davies award, which was also given to the Queens Healthcare Network in 2002. The criteria for this award are as follows:

Award Criteria:

  •  
 Demonstration of leadership and commitment to using information technology to advance his or her healthcare organization’s strategic goals.
  •  
 Helping to achieve measurable results through leadership and a commitment to information technology in his or her organization.
  •  
 Sharing his or her healthcare organization’s experiences to benefit peers and other members of the healthcare industry.

“The recipients of this award are true leaders in the healthcare information technology industry,”

said H. Stephen Lieber, president/CEO of HIMSS,

“They had the foresight to implement technology solutions within their organizations and to provide their ongoing support for the improvement of patient care.”

Mr. Velez was one of two people chosen from a field of 50 applicants. A six-member panel of their peers subsequently made the selections after a four-week review process.

NEGLEY, OTT & ASSOCIATES, INC. has provided project management and clinical systems consulting support to the Queens Health Network with their Ulticare® / Patient1® / Vista / Misys CPR™ / Misys CPOE™ system since 1997 and congratulates them on yet another achievement of excellence in information technology.