Don Reed, vice president and chief information officer of Crozer-Keystone Health System, received a Lifetime Achievement Award recently from the Philadelphia Business Journal which annually recognizes leaders in the health care and life sciences industries.
The 2014 Lifetime Achievement Award recognizes a health care executive with a distinguished career marked by achievement through innovation. The award was presented during a ceremony in Philadelphia on Oct. 23, a hospital press release said.
“Don Reed and his outstanding team have helped Crozer-Keystone earn a reputation as an innovator in the area of healthcare information systems,” said Joan Richards, president and chief executive officer, Crozer-Keystone Health System. “He is well-deserving of this honor.”
“I am honored to have been selected to receive this award,” said Reed. “Crozer-Keystone’s long term success with information technology is a credit to the continuing efforts of our the information services (IS) team, senior leadership and the many folks who implement and use our information systems.”
Under Reed’s leadership, Crozer-Keystone has become a regional and national leader in the use of information technologies in healthcare. The organization’s accomplishments in information technology (IT) innovation have allowed the health system to not only enhance patient care and patient safety, but to improve financial efficiencies as well.
The Philadelphia Business Journal also recognized the Crozer-Keystone Public Relations and Marketing Department with the New Media Award. This award honors a health care provider or life sciences company that is creatively using new media (i.e. the Web, social media, mobile technology) for internal communications, marketing or patient education.
