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  Dr. Detlev H. (Herb) SmaltzDr. Detlev H. (Herb) Smaltz is the CEO of Health Care Data Works, LLC, an Ohio State University Technology Commercialization Company.  As CEO of HCD, he works with healthcare provider organizations to more strategically leverage data analytics and business intelligence to improve their organizational performance. Health Care DataWorks is a provider of enterprise data warehouse and business intelligence tools and strategic enterprise BI consulting services.

Prior to founding Health Care DataWorks, he served as the CIO of the Ohio State University Medical Center, a $1.7B, 6 hospital academic medical center comprising more than 1100 beds and over 13,000 FTEs.  In his role as CIO of OSUMC, he led an IT organization of 255 individuals with an annual operating budget of $42M.  In addition, he served as an Associate Vice-President for Health Sciences leading collaborative initiatives between the three mission areas of the medical center:  research, academics and patient care.

Dr. Smaltz has over 20 years experience in healthcare management with all but three of those years as CIO/CKO at various sized organizations including a 20-bed community hospital, a 300-bed tertiary referral medical center, an 1100-bed tertiary referral medical center, a 5-state region, a 7-country international region and at the corporate headquarters of a $6.2B globally distributed integrated delivery system.  He is a Fellow of the Healthcare Information & Management Systems Society (FHIMSS) and recently completed a three-year term on the HIMSS Board of Directors (BOD) and as the HIMSS 2004-2005 BOD Vice Chair.  In addition he is a Fellow in the American College of Healthcare Executives (FACHE).

Dr. Smaltz also holds certifications in Knowledge Management from the Knowledge Management Certification Board (KMCB).   In addition he has served as an adjunct professor at Capital College, Laurel, MD, an associate professor at UAB, Birmingham, AL, and as a professor at OSU, Columbus, OH.  Dr. Smaltz earned a BS in Management Information Systems from the University of Tampa, FL in 1985, an MBA from Ohio State University in 1992 and a Ph.D. in Information & Management Science from Florida State University in 1999.

Recent Publications Include:
  • Austin & Boxerman’s Information Systems for Healthcare Management, 7th Edition
    with Gerald Glandon & Donna Slovensky, Health Administration Press, Chicago, IL, 2008

  • The Healthcare Information Technology Planning Fieldbook
    with George “Buddy” Hickman, HIMSS Publications, Chicago, IL, 2008

  • The Executive’s Guide to Electronic Health Records
    with E. Berner, Health Administration Press, Chicago, IL, 2007

  • The CEO-CIO Partnership:  Harnessing the Value of Information Technology in Healthcare
    eds. Smaltz, D., Glaser, J., Skinner, R. & Cunningham III, T, HIMSS Publications, Chicago, IL, 2005
 
 
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