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Meg McCarthy is Senior Vice President for Performance Improvement and Chief Information Officer (CIO). She is responsible for process and performance improvement and all information technology services and operations for Aetna.
Previously Ms. McCarthy was Vice President and Head of Business Solutions Delivery at Aetna which brought together all IT project management development quality engineering and IT-related business-process reengineering functions necessary to create develop and deliver end-to-end business solutions.
Prior to joining Aetna in 2003 Ms. McCarthy was Senior Vice President of Information Technology at CIGNA in Bloomfield Conn. (a Fortune 500 employee benefits company). She has 20 years of information systems and health care operations experience with strengths in hospital insurance and managed care systems. Her operations and consulting experience includes cost management mergers productivity management care management clinical work redesign financial management and information systems design and implementation.
Ms. McCarthy has worked on the provider side of the industry in CIO positions at Catholic Health Initiatives Denver Colo. one of the largest Catholic Systems in the country; and at Franciscan Health System. She was a consulting partner at Ernst & Young in the IT and Performance Improvement practice and also was with Andersen Consulting (Accenture) as a Senior Manager.
Ms. McCarthy has a Master of Public Health (MPH) degree Hospital Administration from Yale University and a B.A. in Philosophy Magna Cum Laude from Providence College. Her professional affiliations include Yale University Hospital Administration Alumni Association and Yale University Delaware and Massachusetts Alumni Associations. Ms. McCarthy's military experience includes U.S. Navy Medical Services Corps; Lieutenant at Bethesda Naval Hospital; and U.S. Navy Reserves Lieutenant Commander. | 