I lead the management and oversight of technology across UC Davis Health System. I am involved with creating technology strategy, selecting technology and products for acquisition, managing the deployment of technology, and ongoing support to faculty and staff that use and depend on these technologies. UC Davis Health System is unique in how we integrate care, research and education, and we are highly focused on integrating technologies across these missions within the health system. I also work to ensure we link technologies and partner with all elements of the Davis campus and other University of California campuses and laboratories as needed.

What do you enjoy about your work?

I am very interested in informatics and technology used in clinical care, research and education, so I am lucky to get to work on these issues every day. My passion is to advance the field of biomedical informatics and help clinicians and organizations take advantage of sophisticated information systems. Biomedical informatics and technologies can help improve the quality of clinical care, create new treatments, and improve access to care for all people. At UC Davis we have a wonderful history of community engagement and innovation; so what we do with informatics and technology impacts our community every day.

Michael Minear is a national leader in health-care information technology. He has an extensive record of leading transformations of large, complex organizations in the use of modern information technology.

Minear has worked in the health-care industry for over 29 years. He has a unique background in health-care information technology management, having held senior management roles at a software vendor, a large, multi-specialty group practice, community hospitals, and three academic medical centers.

As a member of the executive leadership team of UC Davis Health System, Minear directs about 500 staff employees and oversees an overall annual operating budget of $50 million, plus a yearly capital budget exceeding $10 million. He is responsible for developing and executing a technology strategy that supports the health system's four missions of clinical care, research, education, and community engagement.

Minear has previously held the positions of senior vice president and CIO at the University of Maryland Medical System; vice president and CIO at Park Nicollet Health Services in Minneapolis; CIO of the University of Minnesota Hospital and Clinic; and vice president at Medicus Systems. While at Medicus, he co-designed and managed the development of the first commercial executive information system for health-care-providing organizations (DISCOVERY EIS).

Minear has been a part-time associate faculty member at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health since 2001, where he has taught the graduate class entitled "Health Management Information Systems." He has also served on the faculty of the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives organization (CHIME), where he taught seven Information Management Executive classes.

He is a Certified Professional in Healthcare Information and Management Systems (CPHIMS), sponsored by the Healthcare Information & Management Systems Society (HIMSS). He was mentor and host to CIO interns from the Virginia Commonwealth University during the summers of 2003 and 2004, and was a member of the HIMSS national task force supporting the National Healthcare Information Network (NHIN).

He is currently a senior member of the Healthcare Information & Management Systems Society (HIMSS), member of the American College of Healthcare Information Administrators (CHIME), and a member of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA).

Minear has a BBA from the University of Iowa with a double major in finance and financial economics, and a graduate certificate in biomedical informatics from Oregon Health & Science University's School of Medicine.