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New CIOs at Carestream Health, Alere Medical and more

Movers and Shakers
By Meridith Levinson, CIO

Harvard Business School (HBS) CIO Stephen Laster joined Intelliworks‘ advisory board. Laster just recently finished rolling out Intelliworks’ CRM software for HBS’s executive education program. Laster leads a team of 110 IT professionals at HBS who oversee the school’s academic and administrative computing environment. Prior to his current role, he was the director of the Curriculum Innovation and Technology Group at Babson College, where he focused on e-learning and collaborative technologies.

Carestream Health, the company formed through Onex Corp.’s acquisition of Eastman Kodak’s Health Group (which took place last week), announced its senior leadership team.

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Eileen Wirley
Eileen Wirley
serves as CIO of the $2.5 billion digital imaging, film and healthcare IT company. She most recently served as CIO of Kodak’s Health Group.

Holly Hilberg
Holly Hilberg steps into the CTO role at Carestream. Hilberg also previously worked for Eastman Kodak, most recently as its director of corporate engineering and vice president of research and development.

Douglas Albro begins a new job as EVP and CIO of Alere Medical on May 14. He comes to the Reno, Nev.-based healthcare provider from Excellus BlueCross BlueShield where he was vice president of information management. Prior to Excellus BlueCross BlueShield, Albro was director of information technology for Humana. At Alere Medical, he  will be responsible for continuing the evolution of Alere’s Allegro information system, a patient-centric monitoring system that is designed to provide access to multiple streams of data to enhance patient management and care. The system integrates all disease states and co-morbidities in one centralized environment, providing nurses with a complete view of each patient’s health information.

Luis Romero joined Peach Holdings (Peachtree) on April 11, 2007 as its new CIO. He joined the Boynton

Beach, Fla.-based the specialty financial services  company from Binary Technologies for which he was the president. He previously served as CIO of Relationserve and at Debt Management Associates. He also previously consulted for Peachtree.