Vice President & Chief Information Officer

Mr. Hutsell’s professional healthcare and technology career began 30 years ago with the Consulting Division of Arthur Andersen (now Accenture). He was part of the development team of an early budgeting and decision support system, had extensive experience with first generation clinical systems and moving hospitals from shared to in-house technologies. Mr. Hutsell was called on numerous times to review clinical system designs and project approaches. In addition to healthcare, he gained experience in process manufacturing, education, local and state government, and transportation/logistics.

From 1986 to 1995, Mr. Hutsell was with the Daughters of Charity National Health System - West as VP of Information Systems, during the formation of that health system, and its subsequent merge into Catholic Healthcare West (CHW). With CHW, he was a corporate Vice President, acting at times as a Regional CIO, Technology Director for System-wide Reengineering, and managing the multi-million dollar Y2K project covering all technologies within CHW.

Prior to joining the team that developed the Daughters of Charity Health System, Mr. Hutsell was Director of Information Technology Application Services for Blue Shield of California. At Blue Shield, he had responsibility for developing a program management organization and methodology, establishing a web development QA team, and re-establishing an effective IT delivery strategy to individual business units.

During the development of DCHS, Mr. Hutsell established the initial strategy for Quality Improvement and developed work groups for marketing, nursing, supply chain management, imaging and other ancillary support areas. Currently, he has responsibility for Supply Chain Management in addition to traditional CIO duties.

Hr. Hutsell graduated from the University of Washington where his graduate school emphasis was accounting.