Confirmed 2010 Capstones

Sue Schade
Vice President and Chief Information Officer
Brigham and Women's Hospital

Sue Schade serves as the Vice President and Chief Information Officer for Brigham and Women's/Faulkner Hospitals in Boston, Massachusetts, a position she assumed in January of 2000. Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) is a 777-bed nonprofit teaching affiliate of Harvard Medical School and a founding member of Partners HealthCare System, an integrated health care delivery network. BWH is committed to excellence in patient care with expertise in virtually every specialty of medicine and surgery. In her role, she provides direction and oversight to information technology initiatives at the Brigham and Women's and Faulkner Hospitals and the Brigham and Women’s Physician Organization as well as Biomedical Engineering. Schade directly manages the Partners Information Systems staff based at BWH.

Schade has 25 years experience in health care information technology management. Her experience includes12 years in positions of increasing management responsibility at a large integrated delivery system in the Chicago area. Following that, she led the software division for a start-up healthcare software and outsourcing services vendor. Prior to coming to the Boston area, Schade worked as a senior manager in the health care information technology practice at Ernst and Young.

An active member of both HIMSS and CHIME, Schade served on the CHIME Board from 2004 to 2006. She was responsible for their Advocacy initiatives focusing on the national healthcare information technology agenda and fostering CHIME’s partnerships with other national organizations. She chaired the CHIME Education Foundation Board from 2006 to 2009. She is presently serving on the HIMSS Advocacy and Public Policy Steering Committee. In addition to her work at BW/F, Schade is a regular speaker and writer highlighting the significant IT accomplishments at BWH.

Under her leadership, BWH has been presented with various prestigious recognitions including, but not limited to, the HIMSS Analytics Stage 6 honor for its EMR Adoption Model and the CIO 100 Award for implementing the Balanced Scorecard to improve hospital performance. Schade was recognized with the ComputerWorld Premier 100 IT Leaders award which honors individuals who have had a positive impact on their organization through technology.

Schade holds an MBA degree from Illinois Benedictine College in Lisle, Illinois. She has achieved fellow status with both HIMSS and CHIME.