Dartmouth Health has appointed Randa Perkins, MD, MBA, FAMIA, as its next chief health information officer. Perkins will assume her role on January 19.
“At Dartmouth Health, Dr. Perkins will lead our efforts to use data and technology to improve care, outcomes and efficiency,” said Edward J. Merrens, MD, MHCDS, Dartmouth Health’s chief clinical officer. “She will work closely with clinical, research and operational leaders to align IT strategy with our mission of serving patients and communities.”
Perkins joins Dartmouth Health from the H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute in Tampa, where she served as the chief medical information officer and senior director of clinical informatics. At Moffitt, she led clinical IT strategy, guided technical and design teams, and built a clinical informatics fellowship program. She also served as an associate member in the department of internal medicine at Moffitt and as an associate professor of medicine at the Morsani College of Medicine at the University of South Florida.
Earlier in her career, Perkins practiced as a family medicine hospitalist at Tallahassee Memorial Healthcare and taught at the Florida State University College of Medicine. Her contributions to health informatics have shaped the field at a national level. She serves on the Health Information Technology Advisory Committee advising the Assistant Secretary of Technology Policy, is a member of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network Digital Oncology Forum, and contributes to the American Medical Informatics Association.
Perkins attended medical school at Florida State and earned a master of business administration degree from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. She holds active board certifications in family medicine from the American Board of Family Medicine and clinical informatics from the American Board of Preventive Medicine.
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Dartmouth Health, New Hampshire’s only academic health system and the state’s largest private employer, serves patients across northern New England. Dartmouth Health provides access to more than 2,000 providers in almost every area of medicine, delivering care at its flagship hospital, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center (DHMC) in Lebanon, NH, as well as across its wide network of hospitals, clinics and care facilities. DHMC is consistently named the #1 hospital in New Hampshire by U.S. News & World Report, and is recognized for high performance in numerous clinical specialties and procedures. Dartmouth Health includes Dartmouth Cancer Center, one of only 57 National Cancer Institute-designated Comprehensive Cancer Centers in the nation, and the only such center in northern New England; Dartmouth Health Children’s, which includes the state’s only children’s hospital and multiple locations around the region; member hospitals in Lebanon, Keene, Claremont and New London, NH, and Windsor and Bennington, VT; Visiting Nurse and Hospice for Vermont and New Hampshire; and more than 24 clinics that provide ambulatory and specialty services across New Hampshire and Vermont. Through its historical partnership with Dartmouth and the Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth Health trains nearly 400 medical residents and fellows annually, and performs cutting-edge research and clinical trials recognized across the globe with Geisel and the White River Junction VA Medical Center in White River Junction, VT. Dartmouth Health and its more than 13,000 employees are deeply committed to serving the healthcare needs of everyone in our communities, and to providing each of our patients with exceptional, personal care.