Mike Ward

Mike Ward is Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer for Covenant Health. Prior to joining Covenant Health in 2003, he spent 23-years as assistant vice president and director of systems integration working for Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), where he managed software development teams in both Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and McLean, Virginia. Prior, he served a variety of industries/agencies in both the private and public sectors. He was also a systems manager for DeRoyal Industries for two years.

Ward received a bachelor’s degree in computer science from the University of Tennessee.

Ward currently serves as president of the board of the East Tennessee Health Information Network (etHIN), a health information exchange and regional health information organization (HIE/RHIO) which serves a 17-county region of east Tennessee. He is a certified healthcare chief information officer and a member of the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME). Ward currently serves on the board of the Tennessee chapter of Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society. He previously served on the board of the Tennessee chapter of Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS).