Barry Runyon is a healthcare provider analyst and researcher. His research agenda includes interoperability, health information exchange, clinical communication and collaboration, patient throughput and capacity management, nurse call, interactive patient care, enterprise imaging, and the real-time health system (RTHS).
Mr. Runyon has held lead architect and technical management positions with both consulting and vendor organizations and has been in the IT field since 1978, both inside and outside of healthcare. He was involved very early in the development of the HL7 standard. Prior to joining Gartner, he served as the Chief Technology Officer at the University Medical Center in Tucson, Arizona.
Sunquest Information Systems, Director of Third-Party Integration, 5 years
United Parcel Service, Scottsdale, Arizona, Chief Architect - Logistics and B2B Technologies, 4 years
University Medical Center, Tucson, Arizona, Chief Technology Officer, 2 years
Healthcare Provider, Payer and Life Science Industries Ecosystem
Healthcare Provider Technology Insights
M.A., University of Kentucky
B.S., Murray State University
To identify the appropriate IT and vendor solutions to optimize healthcare provider operations.
To identify the appropriate IT to meaningfully engage the patient and caregiver.
To identify technologies and vendor solutions that make healthcare affordable.
To promote adoption of the real-time health system technologies.
To assist healthcare provider and vendor leadership with their IT and product planning.