John Stigaard, MBA

John Stigaard, MBA, is a vice president at Coker. He has over 30 years of experience using information technology to improve healthcare operations. His work includes planning and managing systems implementations and analytics programs for healthcare organizations. His work history encompasses academic organizations, not-for-profit healthcare delivery systems, community providers, large physician practices, and government organizations. John has considerable expertise in translating rganizational strategy into information solutions for management decision-making. He has led analytics projects at over 50 organizations ranging from a 50-bed oganization to a 200+ hospital health system. He also has experience with system selection, application rationalization and implementations, strategic planning, and facilitating the information technology component of health system mergers, including pre-merger evaluations and planning and implementing system consolidations. Additionally, John is a frequent speaker on using data and analytics to achieve organizational goals. Prior work experience includes eight years of executive-level work at a healthcare information technology vendor and eight years of experience as a management engineer and department director at a health system.