Paul J. Williams, CHCIO, CDH-E is the Vice President of Information Services Infrastructure Technology at Penn Medicine. Paul leads the strategic vision of all core infrastructure technologies and is responsible for directing several teams in support of daily operations. These teams include architecture and engineering for cloud services, enterprise compute, storage, networking and telecommunications, platform engineering, messaging and collaboration, high-performance computing, identity and access management as well as EHR infrastructure.
Paul is a seasoned executive leader with nearly 30 years of experience in information technology; with a focus in health care technology developed over the last two decades. Throughout his career, Paul has held progressive leadership roles responsible for the strategy and execution of multiple EHR implementations, full infrastructure lifecycle management and operations, deployment and adoption of technologies and hospital technology operations.
Before joining Penn Medicine and in prior roles including director, senior director, vice president and chief technology officer, Paul led the technology strategy and operations functions of a $20 billion leading health care organization and a $5 billion financial services organization.
Paul holds a Bachelor of Science in Liberal Studies from Neumann University.
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Professional Memberships
- College of Healthcare Information Executives (CHIME)
- Association for Executives in Healthcare Information Technology (AEHIT)
- Board Member of the Seal Shield Technology Advisory Council
- CHIME Certified Healthcare Chief Information Officer (CHCIO)
- CHIME Certified Digital Health Executive (CDH-E)
Areas of Expertise
- Business Continuity
- Expertise
- Business Continuity
- Cloud Computing
- Connectivity
- Data Center
- Data Protection
- Databases
- Disaster Recovery
- EHR Infrastructure
- Emerging Technologies
- Enterprise IT Strategy
- Governance
- Healthcare IT Management
- IT Governance
- IT Portfolio Management
- IT Process Improvement
- IT Project Management
- IT Service Delivery
- IT Supply Chain Management
- Leadership / Operational Excellence
- Messaging /Collaboration
- Mobility Solutions
- Network Solutions
- Operating Systems
- Process Improvement
- Radiology / PACS technology
- Strategic Planning
- Systems Standardization
- Team Building
- Technology Architecture
- Telehealth
- Vendor Management