Sherry L Slick
Fishers,IN
Summary
Sherry is a seasoned technology executive with 30 years of healthcare experience. She is a strategic partner focused on building and delivering technology strategies aligned with business goals. Sherry uses her leadership experience, process improvement, project management, strategic planning, enterprise solution delivery, consulting and electronic health record experience to drive results, a positive bottom line and optimal workflow. Sherry is a recognized leader in healthcare IT, who is passionate about making the patient experience better, takes great pride in building highly functioning teams and delivering results.
Overview
20
20
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Chief Information Officer
Vytalize Health
Hoboken, NJ
02.2024 - Current
- Part of executive team with board-level reporting duties
- Restructured IT department to maximize productivity.
- Drove $3 million in savings in the IT budget through application rationalization and reducing waste.
- Significantly improved data management and analytics capabilities to drive internal insights and performance with our partner practices
- Enhanced cybersecurity program maturity in six months across alerting, monitoring, vulnerability management, change management, security awareness training, and phish testing
- Drove IT operational efficiencies by aligning tools and processes across all IT departments
- Developed quarterly planning and road mapping process to align with strategic business initiatives
- Worked with operational teams to deliver high-value engineering and data solutions to enhance efficiencies.
- Collaborated with EMR partners for direct integrations in the areas of code recapture, suspects and clinical decision support
Chief Information Officer
Indiana Hemophilia & Thrombosis Center
Indianapolis, IN
01.2021 - 02.2024
- Officer and member of executive staff, with board level interaction and reporting.
- Responsible for all aspects of information technology.
- Prepared a long-term strategic plan aligned with business goals, along with short-term tactical roadmaps to ensure proper visibility and accountability.
- Established an information technology organizational structure to enable optimal support and modernization of the organization's technology.
- Responsible for analyzing financial data, developing budgets, and managing expenditures for information technology.
- Within three months of the start date, I materially improved the security posture by implementing 24/7 threat hunting and response, vulnerability management, security policy, security awareness training, and phish testing.
- Established a data roadmap and staffing plan to drive focus on data as an asset, and support research and data-driven decision-making through self-service analytics.
- Collaborated with and mentored technology staff, promoting synergetic partnerships, credibility, and teamwork.
- Served as the executive sponsor to implement a SaaS-based electronic health record system from an on-premises system.
- Oversaw the migration to cloud-based technology from on-premises to modernize the organization's tech stack.
Chief Information Officer
Marathon Health
Indianapolis, IN
02.2015 - 12.2021
- Lead post M&A IT integration efforts by establishing target IT operating model and executing projects to include EHR migration of 174 sites, infrastructure modernization with cloud mindset, Salesforce deployment, and rationalization of SaaS.
- Developed and implemented short and long-term technology strategies and roadmap to drive IT operations, information security, privacy, mobile and web product development, electronic health records, Salesforce and departmental systems.
- Responsible for the technology support of 1100 clinical and business ambassadors, infrastructure and security in 2 headquarters, and 225 health centers across 48 states.
- Developed budget and managed expenditures for all technology services with a budget of $10M.
- Collaborated with and mentored technology staff of 82, across multiple states.
- Built relationships and fostered deep collaboration with peers on the executive team.
- Responsible for board level reporting of IT progress and success metrics.
- Managed competing priorities, large scale growth, and merging of two companies owned by growth equity.
- Selected and implemented third party application development partner with resources based in Ukraine.
- Established and Co-Chaired Governance Risk and Compliance function
- Served as interim Chief Operating Officer for eighteen months leading up to M&A.
Principal & Chief Executive Officer
AchieveEHR
Fishers, IN
12.2009 - 12.2015
- Founded and led consulting firm focused on furthering the adoption of electronic health records.
- Responsible for budget, financial activities and implementing strategies to grow business and profits.
- Monitored business trend forecasts, adjusting budgets and operational plans to maximize growth and opportunities.
- Led team of 15 consultants, engaged in selection, implementation and optimization of electronic health records systems, including Allscripts, Epic, Nextgen, GE Centricity, Practice Fusion and ISALUS.
Chief Information Officer
Orthoindy And The Indiana Orthopaedic Hospital
Indianapolis, IN
01.2008 - 10.2009
- Responsible for IT operations, security, infrastructure, and electronic health record.
- Executed large scale IT modernization project that included, new data center, virtualization, consolidation of telephony systems, SAN, LAN/WAN, PACs system, and electronic health record rollout.
- Consolidation of vendors yielding 1M savings over 3 years.
Director Information Technology
The Indiana Heart Hospital
Indianapolis, IN
10.2004 - 01.2008
Education
Bachelor of Science - Health Information Management
Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis
Indianapolis, IN05.1998
Skills
- Strategic Technology Planning
- Budgeting and Planning
- Software and Data Engineering Leadership
- Strategic Technology Road mapping
- Enterprise Data Management and Analytics
- IT Governance
- Organizational Design
- Process Optimization
- IT Portfolio Management
- IT Operational Metrics
- IT Service Delivery
- Program Management
- Vendor Management
- Change Management
- Corporate Governance, Risk, & Compliance
- Cybersecurity Program Development
- Business Continuity
- Disaster Recovery
- Electronic Health Records
- Digital transformation
- CRM implementation
- Value Based Care
Affiliations
Member HIMSS
Indiana HIMSS Past President
Member CHIME
IBJ CTO of the Year Finalist - 2018
Techpoint Board Member
Techpoint MIRA Award honors - Corporate Innovator of the Year - 2018
Certification
CHCIO - Certified Healthcare Chief Information Officer
CPHIMS - Certified Professional Health Information Management Systems
Hobbies
Interior Design
DIY Home Improvement Projects
Lake Life
Timeline
Chief Information Officer
Vytalize Health
02.2024 - Current
Chief Information Officer
Indiana Hemophilia & Thrombosis Center
01.2021 - 02.2024
Chief Information Officer
Marathon Health
02.2015 - 12.2021
Principal & Chief Executive Officer
AchieveEHR
12.2009 - 12.2015
Chief Information Officer
Orthoindy And The Indiana Orthopaedic Hospital
01.2008 - 10.2009
Director Information Technology
The Indiana Heart Hospital
10.2004 - 01.2008
Bachelor of Science - Health Information Management
Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis
CHCIO - Certified Healthcare Chief Information Officer
CPHIMS - Certified Professional Health Information Management Systems
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