Veteran tech executive, Grahame Coles, has joined St John of God Health Care as its new group director, digital and technology. Coles replaces Jenny Levy who left the role last August after just over a year at the organisation. Coles has moved across from his role as chief information officer at the Department of Health and Human Services in Tasmania. He worked at the department between May 2017 and December last year. During this time, he provided strategic leadership for planning, developing, implementing and managing all information and communication technologies. Between December 2015 and April 2017, Coles was employed by Oracle as a key account director, public sector, Victoria and Tasmania. He also worked for several years as CIO at the Victoria Department of Health and Human Services, and undertook roles in community services, agriculture, food, manufacturing and retail industries. St John of God runs hospitals, home nursing and social outreach services across Australia and the Asia-Pacific region. It is one of the largest non-governmental hospital operators in the country with 23 facilities, 3,000 beds and more than 13,000 staff. CEO Dr Shane Kelly said in a statement on Monday that Coles’ experience in creating customer-centric models for IT and strong strategy, innovation and governance credentials is important to the organisation going forward. “I am confident Grahame will do a great job in leading our digital and technology team, who deliver and support a wide range of large-scale projects as we increase our investment in information and technology while also continuing to support our existing platforms and systems through a period of considerable change,” Kelly said. Coles said on Monday that it was an exciting time to be working within the healthcare sector. “Technology in healthcare remains a global focus with technology organisations investing large amounts of money in research and new products that will provide benefit for both health providers and consumers,” he said. Follow CIO Australia on Twitter and Like us on Facebookhellip;Twitter: @CIO_Australia,Facebook: CIO Australia, or take part in the CIO conversation onLinkedIn: CIO Australia Follow Byron Connolly on Twitter:@ByronConnolly Related content opinion Website spoofing: risks, threats, and mitigation strategies for CIOs In this article, we take a look at how CIOs can tackle website spoofing attacks and the best ways to prevent them. By Yash Mehta Dec 01, 2023 5 mins CIO Cyberattacks Security brandpost Sponsored by Catchpoint Systems Inc. Gain full visibility across the Internet Stack with IPM (Internet Performance Monitoring) Today’s IT systems have more points of failure than ever before. Internet Performance Monitoring provides visibility over external networks and services to mitigate outages. By Neal Weinberg Dec 01, 2023 3 mins IT Operations brandpost Sponsored by Zscaler How customers can save money during periods of economic uncertainty Now is the time to overcome the challenges of perimeter-based architectures and reduce costs with zero trust. By Zscaler Dec 01, 2023 4 mins Security feature LexisNexis rises to the generative AI challenge With generative AI, the legal information services giant faces its most formidable disruptor yet. That’s why CTO Jeff Reihl is embracing and enhancing the technology swiftly to keep in front of the competition. By Paula Rooney Dec 01, 2023 6 mins Generative AI Digital Transformation Cloud Computing Podcasts Videos Resources Events SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER From our editors straight to your inbox Get started by entering your email address below. Please enter a valid email address Subscribe