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Article: It's not the goal...it's the journey. (Brigham and Women's Hospital VP of Information Systems John Glaser) (Cover Story)
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- Health Management Technology
- Article date:
- October 1, 1994
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John Glaser was just 21 years old when he set his feet on a road that would eventually bring him to Boston and to a position of leadership in the development of one of the world's most innovative healthcare information systems. For his pioneering work he would earn the 1994 John E. Gall Award for Healthcare CIO of the Year, given by the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society.
Yet as he stood in Fairbanks, Ala., that early August morning in 1976, John Glaser could see none of this. His eye was set on Ecuador, his thumb at the ready. Glaser began an often solitary hitchhiker's odyssey that would crisscross the United States and eventually turn toward ...