Ed Ricks is a managing director with Baker Tilly’s digital solutions practice. He has more than 20 years of executive level experience as a CIO and COO in health systems. He also has five years of experience leading advanced patient care solution strategies for a large healthcare IT integrator. Ed's primary focus is on operational excellence creating efficiencies to reduce expense, improve outcomes and improve clinician and patient experience through strategic utilization of IT systems.
- Workflow automation using artificial intelligence systems to improve the clinical care delivery process, reducing expense and improving experience
- Data center optimization strategies, reducing the complexity of IT environments with proven cloud strategies keeping a focus on clinical care continuity
- Healthcare IT strategic planning
- Healthcare IT leadership mentoring
- Certified Healthcare CIO (CHCIO) through College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME)
- National speaker at CHIME, HIMSS and other U.S. and international healthcare IT events
- Selected as “100 Hospital and Health System CIOs to Know” by Becker’s Hospital Review in multiple years and named a finalist for “CIO of the Year”
- Led Health Systems to achieve a “Most Wired Hospital” status as designated by CHIME 12 times
