Dan Drawbaugh
CIO
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
Dan Drawbaugh has provided over 25 years of strategic leadership in the areas of Information and Biomedical Technologies that has positioned the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) as a world-class IT organization on par with leading technical organizations across all industries.
Mr. Drawbaugh currently serves as the Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer. UPMC is the largest integrated health care delivery system in Pennsylvania and one of the leading nonprofit medical centers in the country. UPMC is a $7.4 billion, 50,000-employee organization.
Under Mr. Drawbaugh’s leadership, UPMC has pursued an information technology strategy — featuring trail-blazing information technology initiatives — that seek to maximize patient safety and the provision of quality health care. In 2006, InformationWeek magazine selected Mr. Drawbaugh as the “Chief of the Year”. InformationWeek, which considers CIO’s from all industries, selected Mr. Drawbaugh because of his aggressive development and unparalleled use of innovative technology to transform health care.
Mr. Drawbaugh has consistently exhibited extraordinary business technology vision and has shown significant return on investment. Mr. Drawbaugh is considered a thought leader among his industry peers, and manages by example and not just word. To create one of the largest models of true interoperability in health care, Mr. Drawbaugh spearheaded an $84 million technology/healthcare partnership with dbMotion. This partnership provides a flexible platform for UPMC’s clinicians to securely access integrated patient information across its 20 hospitals and 400 outpatient sites and doctors’ offices, without replacing existing systems. The result will be a model of interoperability for the regional and national health information networks that are being promoted by the federal government to improve safety and reduce costs.
Mr. Drawbaugh was instrumental in the development of the first-of-its-kind UPMC/IBM eight-year, $402 million partnership, which is considered by technology and financial industry analysts to be one of the more innovative strategic partnerships. The components of the relationship include a technology transformation initiative that creates an agile and robust technology architecture capable of dynamically allocating resources to address fluctuating demand based upon timely critical business needs, unforeseen competitive or business continuity challenges.
Mr. Drawbaugh lead a $380 million multi-year agreement, with Alcatel-Lucent to upgrade UPMC’s wired and wireless data infrastructure, enterprise telephony system, and contact center platforms and applications to a new converged internet protocol infrastructure.
Over the past several years, Mr. Drawbaugh was instrumental in securing congressional appropriations in excess of $60 million with the U.S. Departments of Defense, Labor, and Health and Human Services. These partnerships include telemedicine initiatives, diabetes research and prevention, and medical simulation technologies.
Mr. Drawbaugh has accountability for:
- an annual IT budget of approximately $250 million
- 35,000 Computing Devices
- 2,200 Software Applications
- 550 Terabytes of Data
- 1,400 IT Professionals
Other information technology honors to his credit include:
- Hospitals & Health Networks - UPMC is one of only six organizations nationwide to make the list for the ten years the award has recognized "technically savvy" hospitals. (2008)
- Computerworld Honors Program® - UPMC was honored as a "Laureate”, which recognizes companies and organizations from around the world whose use of information technology has been especially noteworthy for the originality of its conception, the breadth of its vision and the significance of its benefit to society. (2006 and 2008)
- InformationWeek 500 - For eight years, UPMC has consistently ranked within the top 100 overall and top eight within the Health Care and Medical Category. (2008)
- CIO Magazine – Mr. Drawbaugh was named one of 100 CIOs to achieve excellence. (2008)
- Best Practices in Imaging & IT – UPMC was declared one of the “Top 25 Connected Healthcare Facilities” by Health Imaging & IT magazine. (2008)
A graduate of Temple University with a bachelor's degree in Biomedical and Electrical Engineering Technology, Mr. Drawbaugh was recruited as Director of Biomedical Engineering in 1983. He became Chief Information Officer in 1990. He also holds a master's degree in business administration from Duquesne University, Pittsburgh.