John Houston
Progressive executive leader with over 30 years of cyber experience in a large and dynamic healthcare environment.
- Role
- Vice President, Information Security and Privacy Associate Counsel at UPMC
- Location
- Pittsburgh, PA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About John Houston
I am a progressive executive leader with over 30 years of experience in a large and dynamic healthcare environment. In my role, I lead a team of over 150 professionals and manages a combined operating and capital budget of close to $45MM. I am bad at listing things like accomplishments, skills or experience, as I typically don\'t spend much time thinking about what I have already accomplished, only what I want to accomplish next. What I do is lead a highly effective integrated cyber security, privacy, data governance and risk team at UPMC. I have strong legal and negotiating skills and have negotiated many major information technology deals for UPMC. I have been on the forefront of UPMC\'s secure and ethical use Artificial Intelligence. I have also been involved in a variety of startups, including both a regional health information exchange and cloud-based identity management company.
Experience
Vice President, Information Security and Privacy Associate Counsel
Jan 1997 — Present · Pittsburgh, PA, US
John Houston is a progressive executive leader with over 30 years of experience in a large and dynamic healthcare environment. In his role, he leads a team of over 150 professionals and manages a combined operating and capital budget of close to $45MM. Mr. Houston\'s accomplishments are many, including leading a highly effective integrated cyber security, privacy, data governance and risk program at UPMC. He has strong legal and negotiating skills and has negotiated many major information technology deals for UPMC. Mr. Houston has been involved in a variety of startups, including both a regional health information exchange and cloud-based identity management company. He has strong legal and negotiating skills and has negotiated many major information technology deals for UPMC. Key accomplishments:• Established an information-centric cyber security program that integrates cyber security, privacy, data governance and risk management functions to minimize cyber-risk, while ensuring that the business is not handcuffed due to an overly proscriptive cyber security program.• Established a highly performing cyber security team with low turn-over.• Navigated the organization through the process to be HITRUST r2 Certified.• Established a comprehensive third-party risk management program.• Established a data governance function that is designed to ensure that UPMC can manage information in transit and wherever it resides.• Negotiated a major EHR agreements worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
Education
Thomas R. Kline School of Law of Duquesne University
JD, Law
1990 — 1994
University of Pittsburgh
BS, Computer Science, History
1982 — 1986
Skills
- Ehr
- Hospitals
- Information Technology
- Business Process Improvement
- Policy
- Health Information Exchange
- Informatics
- Privacy Law
- Healthcare Information Technology
- Electronic Medical Record (Emr)
- Emr
- Security
- Healthcare Information Technology (Hit)
- Healthcare
- Hipaa
- Information Security
- Healthcare Management
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