Autor: Detlev H. Smaltz

Gerald L. Glandon, PhD, was president and CEO of the Association of University Programs in Health Administration (AUPHA) from 2013 to 2019. Previously, Dr. Glandon was professor and chair of the Department of Health Services Administration at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. During his tenure, the department experienced rapid growth through expanded enrollment (both undergraduate and graduate), new program development, increased research funding, and international ventures. Dr. Glandon”s primary research interests are technology evaluation (especially information technology), the economics of aging, patient and physician satisfaction, and the assessment of organizational performance. He has received numerous grants as principal investigator and co–principal investigator, including funding from government and private organizations. He has published articles in such journals as JAMA, the Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences, Medical Care, Hospital and Health Services Administration, and Health Services Research, as well as numerous books and book chapters. Donna J. Slovensky, PhD, RHIA, FAHIMA, is professor and senior associate dean for academic and faculty affairs in the School of Health Professions at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). She holds secondary appointments in the Department of Management in the UAB Collat School of Business, the Graduate School, and the School of Medicine”s Center for Outcomes and Effectiveness Research and Education. She is a scholar in the Lister Hill Center for Health Policy, the Center for Interprofessional Education and Simulation, and the Center for Engagement in Disability Health and Rehabilitation Sciences at UAB. She is also codirector of the Integrated Systems Center in the UAB School of Engineering. She has served on the UAB faculty for more than 40 years, teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in strategic management, quality management, information management, and clinical outcomes evaluation before she was appointed to her current administrative roles. Dr. Slovensky earned a PhD in administration–health services with a concentration in strategic management. Her research interests include the strategic use of information resources, mHealth as a product and service delivery model, and team-based learning in health professions education, particularly for honors student projects. Detlev H. Smaltz, PhD, LFACHE, FHIMSS, is the founder, president, and CEO of CIO Consult LLC. He works with healthcare provider and vendor organizations to provide chief information officer–level professional services that include information technology (IT) strategic planning, analytics competency center planning and implementation, IT and data governance, IT product market placement advice, IT executive and staff coaching and mentoring, and other services designed to maximize IT organizational performance. Prior to founding CIO Consult, Dr. Smaltz founded Health Care DataWorks, a healthcare business intelligence software company that earned a Gartner „Cool Vendor” distinction before the business was acquired in 2015. He also served as the chief information officer of international operations for the Cleveland Clinic as well as chief information officer of the Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center. Dr. Smaltz has more than 30 years of experience in healthcare management, primarily in CIO and chief knowledge officer roles at organizations of various sizes, including a 20-bed community hospital, a 300-bed tertiary referral medical center, a five-state region, and a seven-country international region, as well as at the corporate headquarters of a $6.2 billion globally distributed integrated delivery system.