MIKE SMITH

Mike serves as Chief Information Officer for Lee Memorial Health System (LMHS), an integrated healthcare system including 5 acute care hospitals, a Children's Hospital, a Rehab Hospital, nursing home, home health services, outpatient services and multiple multispecialty physician group practices. As Chief Information Officer, Mr. Smith is charged with overall leadership of the System's efforts to utilize information systems, technologies and methods for the achievement of Lee Memorial's mission. He has operational responsibility for Information Systems/Information Technology, Tele-communications, Health Information Management (Medical Records), and Biomedical Engineering.

Mike joined LMHS in 1997, following 10 years in various Information technology leadership capacities at Baylor Healthcare System in Dallas, TX. Prior to that he served as Vice President of Operations for NADACOM, a healthcare information systems company also in Dallas, where he was responsible for software and hardware development and implementation. In total, Mr. Smith has more than 25 years experience in the healthcare information systems business.

Mike is a past Board Member and is a Fellow of the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME), is a HIMSS Fellow, and is also a member of the American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE). He is a faculty member of the CHIME “CIO Bootcamp”.  He also serves on the KLAS Advisory Board. He earned his Bachelors degree in Information Management, and also has a degree in Electronic Engineering.