Dick Escue has spent the last 16 months of his 25-year IT career as CIO of Valley View Hospital in Glenwood, Colo.
Throughout much of his career, Mr. Escue has been a vocal proponent of interoperability, even contributing an op-ed published in the Wall Street Journal discussing the imperativeness of connecting systems and the roadblocks to doing so.
Before joining Valley View Hospital, Mr. Escue was vice president and CIO of Memphis, Tenn.-based Baptist Memorial Health Care and Chesterfield, Mo.-based Sisters of Mercy Health System, among other leadership positions in health organizations.
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