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.
About Dartmouth Health
Dartmouth Health, New Hampshire’s only academic health system and largest private employer, serves patients across New England. Dartmouth Health provides access to more than 2,300 providers in nearly every area of medicine, delivering care at its flagship hospital, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center (DHMC) in Lebanon, NH. Its network of hospitals, outpatient centers, clinics and home care facilities, spans a broad geographical area. Year after year, DHMC is named the #1 hospital in New Hampshire by U.S. News & World Report, and is consistently recognized for high performance in numerous clinical specialties and procedures. Dartmouth Health includes Dartmouth Cancer Center, northern New England’s only National Cancer Institute-designated Comprehensive Cancer Centers and one of less than than 60 total nationally; Dartmouth Health Children’s, which includes the state’s only children’s hospital (Children’s Hospital at DHMC/CHaD) and more than 20 locations around the region; eight member hospitals in Lebanon, Keene, Claremont, Hampstead, and New London, NH, and Windsor and Bennington, VT; Dartmouth Health Home Care; Dartmouth Health Connected Care Center for Telehealth, serving patients as far away as Texas; and more than 30 primary and multi-specialty clinics across New Hampshire and Vermont. Through its partnership with Dartmouth College, Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine and the White River Junction VA Medical Center, Dartmouth Health trains nearly 400 medical residents and fellows annually and performs cutting-edge research and clinical trials with international impact. Dartmouth Health and its more than 16,000 employees are committed to serving the healthcare needs of everyone in the communities it serves and to providing every patient with exceptional, state-of-the-art, personalized care. Learn more at dartmouth-health.org.