Carole Cotter, MBA
Senior Vice President & Chief Information Officer
Lifespan
Biography
Carole M. Cotter is Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer of Lifespan, a four hospital health system in Rhode Island affiliated with the Warren Albert School of Medicine at Brown University.
Since 1996, Cotter has led the implementation of information technology at Lifespan’s four hospitals: Rhode Island Hospital, The Miriam Hospital, Bradley Hospital and Newport Hospital. Under her leadership, Lifespan has been recognized nationally for its use of technology in health care. Cotter and her team have won the CIO 100 Award, 100 Most Wired Award, 25 Most Wireless Award, VHA Northeast Leadership Innovation Award, CHIME Innovator of the Year Award, and Healthcare Information Technology Innovators Award. Lifespan also has been named to the InformationWeek 500 list, and was named as a finalist for the 21st Century Achievement Award from the 2005 Computerworld Honors Program.
Cotter is co-chair of the Rhode Island Department of Health’s Health Information Exchange; a member of the Dean's Advisory Board, School of Nursing, University of Rhode Island; past chair of the Voluntary Hospital Association (VHA), Information Executive Council; a founding member of the New England Healthcare EDI Network (NEHEN).
Cotter holds a master’s degree in business administration from the University of Rhode Island and graduated cum laude with an undergraduate degree in mathematics from Trinity College in Washington, D.C.