Genevieve Morris joins leadership team at ONC and other news makers

Genevieve​ Morris​ has​ been​ named​ principal​ deputy​ national​ coordinator​ for​ health​ IT​ at​ the​ Office​ of​ the​ National​ Coordinator​ for​ Health​ Information​ Technology.​ She​ replaces​ Dr.​ Vindell​ Washington.​

Morris comes to the ONC from health IT company Audacious Inquiry, where she was senior director of health IT policy.

Morris has worked with ONC before, writing and editing pieces of the Shared Nationwide Interoperability Roadmap, creating test procedures for the meaningful-use program, and developing the health IT framework for alternative payment models.

Charlene Falgout​ has been named chief nursing officer of LifePoint Health's St. Francis Hospital in Columbus, Ga.

Falgout was most recently CNO for St. Joseph's Medical Center in Houston, part of Iasis Healthcare. She also was CNO at several other hospitals. Falgout previously served as a nurse manager and clinical educator at Brookwood Medical Center in Lake Charles, La.

Staci Dickerson was promoted to senior VP and CFO of San Diego-based Sharp HealthCare. She succeeds Ann Pumpian, who is retiring after 32 years with Sharp.

Dickerson has been with Sharp since 2003 as director of managed-care finance and VP of finance. Previously, Dickerson was a healthcare specialist at an accounting and consulting firm.

Terri Meldrum has been promoted to senior VP and general counsel of OhioHealth, based in Columbus. She replaces Earl Barnes, who took a similar position at Advocate Health Care, based in Downers Grove, Ill.

Meldrum most recently was VP and deputy general counsel at OhioHealth. She joined the system in 2002 as assistant general counsel. Previously, Meldrum worked for the law firm Taft Stettinius & Hollister in Columbus and also served in the office of the Ohio attorney general.

Matthew Modica has been named the first chief information security officer at St. Louis-based BJC HealthCare.

Modica will oversee BJC's information security management program and will be responsible for the strategic direction, planning and implementation of defenses against data security breaches.

He was previously VP of global client security at Equifax, a consumer credit reporting company. Previously he held leadership roles at Express Scripts and Edward Jones Investments.