David Strong has been named president and CEO at Orlando (Fla.) Health, and other news makers

David Strong has been named president and CEO at Orlando (Fla.) Health, effective in April.

Since 2004, Strong, 50, has served as president of Rex Healthcare, Raleigh, N.C., a hospital system affiliated with UNC Health Care.

Orlando Health closed its fiscal 2014 on Sept. 30 with a $127.3 million operating surplus on more than $2.1 billion in revenue. That was a far cry from fiscal 2013, when it lost $9.5 million on operations and posted revenue of $1.9 billion. The turnaround was partially the result of Orlando Health's physician investment strategy. Its clinical partnership with University of Florida Health, for example, boosted oncology and neurosurgery volumes.

Strong will take over for Dr. Jamal Hakim, a practicing anesthesiologist who has served as Orlando Health's CEO since September 2013. Hakim stepped in after the board fired Sherrie Sitarik.

Sue Schade, CIO at the University of Michigan Health System in Ann Arbor, has been named CIO of the Year by two major industry groups.

The John E. Gall Jr. CIO of the Year Award, sponsored by the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society and the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives, recognizes health IT executives who lead innovation in their organization through effective technology use.

Schade joined UMHS in 2012 to oversee its electronic health record system implementation. Under Schade, the system attained Stage 6 in 2014 on the HIMSS Analytics Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model, which helps systems benchmark their EHR implementation against other organizations.

Lorrie Liang has been named COO at Sarasota (Fla.) Memorial Health Care System, effective Feb. 16.

Liang, 52, is currently VP at LifeBridge Health System/Sinai Hospital of Baltimore, a position she has held since 1997. She is responsible for the health system's neuroscience, orthopedic, cardiovascular and ophthalmology service lines and the LifeBridge Health Research Institute, as well as strategy, operations and quality outcomes for medicine, surgery and anesthesia.

Steve Carter been named CIO and senior VP of information technology at health system Cambridge (Mass.) Health Alliance. He has more than 30 years of leadership experience.

Carter, 60, has been with the alliance since 2002, most recently serving as senior director of data and development and chief information security officer. He will replace CIO Judy Klickstein, who is leaving the system after 12 years.

Before coming to the alliance, Carter was director of operations improvement for Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates, a not-for-profit multispecialty practice in eastern Massachusetts.

Kurt Janavitz has been named CEO of Integrated Health Network of Wisconsin, a clinically integrated network of independent healthcare systems, hospitals and physicians headquartered in Milwaukee. He succeeds Peter Pruessing, who served as IHN's CEO since its inception in 2005 and will continue in a transitional role until his retirement this year.

Most recently, Janavitz, 47, served four years as senior VP of payer contracting and relations for Florida-based 21st Century Oncology. Previously, he served in Wisconsin as VP of provider management at Assurant Health and as VP of network management for UnitedHealth Group.