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Bill McQuaid, 39
Chief Information Officer
Parkview Adventist Medical Center
Why have IT personnel from hospitals in England, the Bahamas, Australia and elsewhere visited Parkview Adventist Medical Center in Brunswick, checking out the facilityâÂÂs scanning and archiving medical records procedures? The short answer must be Bill McQuaid, ParkviewâÂÂs chief information officer, and a winner of the MaineToday Media Forty Under 40 award.
Tory Ryden, the hospitalâÂÂs marketing director and McQuaidâÂÂs award nominator, notes that âÂÂBill led Parkview in becoming the first hospital in Maine (and one of the first in the nation) to convert medical records from paper to fully electronic. In doing so, Parkview received $1.7 million in 2011 for achieving Stage 1 of Meaningful Use (part of President ObamaâÂÂs American Recovery and Reinvestment Act package).
âÂÂParkview is slated to receive an additional $1.3 million in 2012 for additional achievements in Meaningful Use.âÂÂ
McQuaid, 39, was born in â Parkview, actually. His was a military family, so they lived all over, but he was back in Maine as a high school freshman and graduated from Mount Ararat High, then from Southern Maine Technical College, and then went to the University of Maine, where he earned a degree in electrical engineering. He worked at L.L. Bean as a network specialist for less than two years, and then moved on to Parkview, which at the time was without even e-mail.
At his job interview, McQuaid immediately saw that âÂÂin about a dayâ he could automate the job he was being hired to do â and did so. Since then, to name just two honors, heâÂÂs been a finalist for the Information Security Executive of the Year Award (2007); and in 2010, Computer World magazine named McQuaid one of its Premier 100 IT Leaders in the world.
MeQuaid and his wife, Kerry, (a software engineer for Aetna) and son Brady, 7, live in Brunswick. McQuaidâÂÂs volunteer activities include coaching basketball and soccer.
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