Greensboro, N.C.-based Cone Health promoted CIO Ben Patel to executive vice president, bringing him into the senior-most leadership team at the health system.
Most recently, he served as the organizations senior vice president and CIO. Equipped with 20-plus years of health IT experience, he joined Cone Health in 2018.
The promotion recognizes Mr. Patel's "leadership, and the increasingly important and central strategic role played by information technology in our organization and in healthcare," said Jeff Jones, executive vice president and CFO for Cone Health.
Mr. Patel holds an MBA from Pittsburg (Kan.) State University.