Diane B. Comer, 2012 Honoree
- Title
- Senior vice president and health plan business information officer
- Employer
- Kaiser Permanente
- Location
- Oakland, Calif.
- What characteristic is most important to you in an IT hire?
- Drive, coupled with an ability to fit in the Kaiser Permanente culture. Candidates need to have the required background, skills and experience as well.
- Career highlight:
- I started as a ballet dancer and ended up in IT. There are interesting parallels between the two. As a core member of a ballet company, you are completely aligned with a team -- you know your role and you succeed by watching one another and supporting one another.
- Quick ROI project:
- Our document management strategy is providing 70% ROI by enabling online document fulfillment. Many proprietary point solutions are also being retired in favor of a standards-based, extensible and highly scalable document management system.