25 Top Information Managers: 2010
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John Glaser, Ph.D., VP and CIO, Partners HealthCare
Glaser is likely the most storied name on our list due to his high-profile work in the Harvard and Partners HealthCare community and a lifetime of project achievements. These days, Glaser is "on loan" for about 60 percent of his time to work with national health care coordinator David Blumenthal and HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius on government health care initiatives, but still carries full duty at Partners.
At his day job, "it's always more demand than budget and capacity," Glaser told us. "Some things go really well and other things, you just say 'yoiks.'"
With a huge academic and research core in IS, Glaser is always working hard toward federal grants and industry partnerships. But he also has a close eye on unfolding trends. "We're constantly innovating at the edge, it might be decision support or the guy I just talked to about ways of monitoring your health while you're at work or home, or looking at the IT needed to understand the genetic basis behind disease and treatment variability."
