CHICAGO -- The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society and Modern Healthcare have announced the recipients of this year's CEO IT Achievement Award. This year's honorees are:

* Alan Aviles, President & CEO, New York City Health & Hospitals Corporation
* John Ferguson, President & CEO, Hackensack University Medical Center
* Michael Murphy, President & CEO, Sharp HealthCare
"The three recipients of this year's CEO IT Achievement Award have demonstrated the vital and integral role of health information technology in the strategy of improving healthcare delivery at their respective organizations," said H. Stephen Lieber, HIMSS president/CEO. "HIMSS and our members congratulate these honorees for their leadership in moving ahead the nationwide adoption of health IT."

The 2007 recipients will be honored at a breakfast presentation on Tuesday, June 26 at the HIMSS Summit07 in San Diego. Following the presentation, the recipients will serve as keynote panelists at the opening session and present their perspectives on health IT. More information about attending this event is available at www.himss.org/summit on the HIMSS Web site. In addition, the honorees will be profiled in a supplement to the June 25, 2007 issue of Modern Healthcare.

"It takes superior leadership and unwavering commitment to navigate the complex and lengthy process to deploy IT systems that will transcend healthcare," said Fawn Lopez, publisher of Modern Healthcare.

"We congratulate this year's recipients for their superior leadership, courage, dedication and vision. They are true champions of IT in healthcare."

A panel of four healthcare executives selected this year's recipient from a pool of 68 entrants. The panel included Sherry Browne, Sr. Vice President & Chief Information Officer, Ascension Health; Glenn D. Steele, Jr., M.D., Ph.D., President & Chief Executive Officer, Geisinger Health System; Ronald J. Strachan Vice President & CIO HealthEast Care System; and Eric B. Yablonka, Vice President & CIO, University of Chicago Hospitals.

This year's recipients join a distinguished group of CEO IT Achievement Award recipients, including Glenn Steele, Jr., Geisinger Health System; Joel Allison, Baylor Health Care System; George Halvorson, Kaiser Foundation Health Plan & Hospitals, Mark Neaman, Evanston Northwestern Healthcare; Richard Hastings, St.Luke's Health System; Judith Pelham, Trinity Health; Leonard Schaeffer, WellPoint Health Networks; George Vecchione, Lifespan; and Pete Velez, Elmhurst Hospital Center/Queens Healthcare Network.

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