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 organizational strategy into information solutions

for management decision-making. He has led analytics projects at over 50

organizations ranging from a 50-bed organization 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.