Baptist Memorial receives 2024 CIO 100 Award

Memphis, Tenn., April 17, 2024 – Foundry’s CIO.com has awarded Baptist Memorial Health Care a 2024 CIO 100 Award, which recognizes visionary and collaborative IT leaders.

Foundry’s CIO recognized Baptist for its cloud-based disaster recovery strategy that allows physicians and patients to access electronic health records from anywhere in the world. The EHR, created in four months, is the second largest electronic health record system in the cloud and supports the continuity of health care during environmental risks, such as earthquakes, floods and tornados.

“I am proud of our IS team and their support of our mission at Baptist Memorial Health Care to provide high-quality care for patients,” said Chief Information and Digital Officer for Baptist Memorial Health Care, Tom Barnett. “Thanks to their collaboration and talent, they developed a cloud-based disaster recovery strategy in unprecedented time that protects Baptist’s digital infrastructure and patients’ records, as well as ensures the continuity of quality patient care in any situation.”

For more than 25 years, the CIO 100 Awards has recognized innovative organizations around the world that exemplify the highest level of strategic and operational excellence in IT. CIO will celebrate and recognize winners at the CIO 100 Awards & Symposium in August.

“The CIO 100 Symposium & Awards continues a tradition of over 25 years of the highest quality content for IT leaders and their teams,” said Elizabeth Cutler, content director, CIO 100 Symposium & Awards. “In addition to celebrating 100 organizations during the dinner and awards ceremony, I am thrilled to feature many of these IT leaders as speakers. The award-winning teams share a passion for excellence, a customer-centric mindset and a drive to invest in technologies that elevate business value.”

CIO focuses on attracting the highest concentration of enterprise CIOs and business technology executives with unparalleled peer insight and expertise on business strategy, innovation and leadership. As organizations grow with digital transformation, CIO provides its readers with key insights on career development, including certifications, hiring practices and skills development. The award-winning CIO portfolio provides business technology leaders with analysis and insight on information technology trends and a keen understanding of IT’s role in achieving business goals. CIO is published by Foundry, an IDG Inc. Company. Company information is available at www.foundryco.com.

Baptist Memorial Health Care is one of the country’s largest not-for-profit health care systems and the largest provider of Medicaid in the region. Baptist offers a full continuum of care to communities throughout the Mid-South and consistently ranks among the top integrated health care networks in the country. The health care system comprises 24 affiliate hospitals in West Tennessee, Mississippi and East Arkansas; a freestanding emergency department; more than 5,400 affiliated physicians; Baptist Medical Group, a multispecialty physician group with more than 900 providers; home, hospice and psychiatric care; minor medical centers and clinics; a network of surgery, rehabilitation and other outpatient centers; and an education system highlighted by Baptist Health Sciences University (formerly Baptist College of Health Sciences). Baptist employs more than 21,000 people, and in fiscal year 2020 contributed more than $455 million in community benefit and uncompensated care to the communities it serves. For more information, please visit www.baptistonline.org or follow us on Facebook, Instagram or LinkedIn.com.

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