Violet L. Shaffer
Research Vice President and Global Industry Services Director
Gartner
Biography
Vi Shaffer is Research Vice President and Industry Services Director – Healthcare for Gartner, the world's leading IT research and advisory firm. A 40-year industry veteran, she advises healthcare executives around the world in the areas of strategic planning, IT governance, change management, and organization structure/roles, healthcare mega-suite vendors and business intelligence/clinical analytics. She is particularly well-known internationally for her long-standing study of CIO-level issues the role of the Chief Medical Informatics Officer role and the CIO-CMIO relationship. Based in Washington, D.C., she actively monitors US federal healthcare reform, Accountable Care and Pay for Performance initiatives. Having played executive, consulting and senior strategist roles in IT and healthcare, she is frequent speaker and author on the fusion of healthcare and technology. She has lectured in executive and academic programs at the Harvard School of Public Health and the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Prior to joining Gartner in 2004, she served as an executive of several healthcare IT-oriented companies, including APACHE Medical Systems, Cerner, Competitive Advantage Services, and MEDSTAT.