The MUSE organization is supported and managed by a dedicated group of volunteers. And this is your opportunity to elect the next  Director-at-Large to the MUSE Board of Directors. The Director is responsible for the effective management of the organization, including financial and program strategies and policies.

Voting Closes Wednesday March 20 5:00 pm Pacific.

Note that only one vote per Facility member is permitted.

Please ensure that your vote properly represents the consensus of your facility.

Benjamin Cox

Benjamin Cox, MBA is the Chief Information Officer at Calvert Health Medical Center in Prince Frederick, Maryland. Benjamin has been working at Calvert health for four years and has been in the CIO role for a year and a half. Benjamin was the Director of Information Services for Calvert Health overseeing all technical support groups, system administration teams, and the EHR applications teams. Under Benjamin’s leadership, Calvert Health moved their ambulatory services from NextGen to MEDITECH ambulatory. Benjamin worked at Vivint Smart Home before coming to Calvert Health. While at Vivint Smart Home, Benjamin built and managed several IT support and system administration teams that supported 14,000 employees and over 1,900,000 customers. At Vivint, he also had a lot of experience supporting and planning large scale events.

Benjamin is interested in being a member of the MUSE Board. He intends to do what he can to help serve and improve the MUSE experience in any way that he can. Benjamin believes that his experience outside of healthcare allows him to think outside of the box and to come at problems from different angles. Change and continual improvement are important motivators to Benjamin. One of Benjamin’s goals as a leader is to help develop others. Benjamin is working hard to keep his team and others at Calvert Health involved with MUSE to help them improve their knowledge and abilities.

Benjamin has achieved a Bachelors of Science in Economics from Brigham Young University and a Masters of Business Administration in International Business from the Thunderbird School of Global Management.

Jackie Rice

Jackie Rice is interested in serving as a director at large with the MUSE board. Currently Jackie serves as the Vice President for Information Technology and Chief Information Officer at Frederick Health. She has been with Frederick Health for 24 years. Frederick Health is the only hospital in Frederick County, Maryland. It has 269 licensed beds, employs a staff of nearly 3,300, and offers services in 26 locations through a network of primary care and specialty providers. Jackie’s team provides support for and delivery of IT infrastructure and services, information security systems, administrative systems, digital innovation, population health initiatives, and client support services.

Frederick Health has a long history of collaborating with other MEDITECH sites by providing support and information about MEDITECH initiatives, as well as learning from other sites. We are better together as a community. Jackie has long been a member of MUSE, attending many MUSE activities, doing presentations, and serving on panels. MUSE has served the MEDITECH users’ community by providing educational and networking events and opportunities both in person and virtually. MUSE also provides a voice for our organizations with our third-party vendors as well as MEDITECH.

Our technology and systems will only become more complicated and challenging with the coming few years regarding increasing cybersecurity risks, technical infrastructure complexity, personalized precision medicine, and new innovations coming with AI. We need to provide a great customer experience to both our end users and our patients. I believe MUSE will be a leader in providing pathways to accomplish positive outcomes with the coming challenges and I would look forward to serving.

Jackie has served on the Maryland HIMSS Chapter Board of Directors for many years in several capacities including President in 2023. Prior to joining Frederick Health, Jackie served in multiple healthcare roles, starting with a nursing background of 20 years which led her to a career path in Information Services. She follows the mission of Frederick Health to positively impact the well-being of every individual in our community.

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