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Lynn Harold Vogel, Ph.D., is Vice President and Chief Information Officer at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas, a $2.3B+ clinical, research and teaching institution that is the world’s largest and highest rated facility devoted to the care and cure of cancer. In 2006, M.D.Anderson was named to the CIO100 list of most innovative IT organizations, to the top 100 of InformationWeek’s Top 500, and honored as one of the top 25 connected healthcare facilities by HealthImaging and IT. As the senior IT executive managing a 600+ person IT organization, he is leading the in-house development of M.D. Anderson’s Electronic Medical Record (EMR) with a major focus on the integration of research and clinical data. Dr. Vogel is also Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Biomedical Informatics at Columbia University in New York City.
Previously, Dr. Vogel was Vice President, Healthlink, Inc., in Houston, Texas, where he was a leader on the Advisory Services team. He has also served as Vice-President, Information Services, NewYork-Presbyterian Healthcare System in New York City, responsible for coordinating information services planning and management for the more than thirty hospitals and other health care facilities which collectively form the nation’s largest academic medical center-based health system. Dr. Vogel was previously Vice President and Chief Information Officer, Mount Sinai Medical Center, in New York City. He was also formerly at The University of Chicago Hospitals as Chief Information Officer, and as Director, Medical Center Information Services, as Associate Director in the Department of Finance, and as the Senior Executive responsible for Departments of Pharmacy, Clinical and Surgical Laboratories, Radiology and Medical Records.
Dr. Vogel has been a frequent presenter at regional and national conferences, including most recently “Using IT Governance to Increase IT Investment Value” at the 2005 IT Governance for Healthcare Conference; at the 2005 HIMSS Annual Conference he gave two presentations: “Structure Follows Strategy: Building the Customer-Driven IT Organization”, and “IT Investment: Can IT’s Value be Enhanced?” (with Leon Leach). Previously he presented at the Summer 2004 HIMSS Conference, and at the August 2004 Regional HIMSS Chapter meeting in Atlanta, Georgia, on his award-winning JHIM article on the return on investment (ROI) from healthcare IT. He also presented the Inaugural Grand Rounds Lecture at the University of Kansas Center for Health Care Informatics, “From Bench to Bedside: What is the Role of Information Technology?” in October 2004.
Dr. Vogel’s recent publications include: “Everyone Gets to Play”, invited Peer to Peer column in CIO, September 1, 2006; “Using Governance to Increase IT Investment Value”, Advance for Healthcare Information Executives, April 2006, with Leon Leach; “5 Rules for Effective IT Investment Planning”, Journal of Healthcare Financial Management, December 2004, “Managing Your IT Investment to Achieve ROI”, Journal of Healthcare Financial Management, January 2005 (with Ben Melson and Randy Thomas). Dr. Vogel’s article, “Finding Value from Information Technology Investments: Exploring the Elusive ROI in Healthcare”, Journal of Health Information Management, Fall 2003, was named “2003 Article of the Year” by the Healthcare Management and Information Systems Society (HIMSS). He also published “Will Decision Support in Medications Order Entry Save Money? A Return On Investment Analysis of the Case of the Hong Kong Hospital Authority”, in Proceedings of the American Medical Informatics Association, Fall 2003, (with Kin Wah Fung, M.D.); and is the lead author for “Management of Information in Healthcare Organizations”, a chapter in Biomedical Informatics: Computer Applications in Health Care and Biomedicine, 3rd ed., June 2006, with Leslie Pereault.
Lynn H. Vogel, Biographical Statement p. 2
Dr. Vogel’s education at the bachelor’s, masters and doctoral level was completed at The University of Chicago, where he also served as a faculty member for twelve years. For the past five years, he has taught a highly popular course in the Department of Biomedical Informatics at Columbia University, entitled “Economics of Informatics: Cost and Investment Issues in Healthcare Information Technology”. He has also lectured in Columbia’s Biomedical Informatics Intensive Course Program, in the introductory Biomedical Informatics course, and in Columbia University’s Graduate School of Business.
Dr. Vogel is a charter member of the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME), and is currently a member and Fellow of the Healthcare Information Management Systems Society (HIMSS) and a member of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA).
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