William A. Spooner

William Spooner, Chief Information Officer

Bill Spooner has been chief information officer for the past 13 of his more than 25 years at Sharp HealthCare. Spooner has led an aggressive IT effort that has placed Sharp on the Hospitals and Health Networks 100 Most Wired list for all nine years since the list was established. In 2010, Spooner was named the CIO of the Year by the College of Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society for his lifetime achievements in the health care IT industry.

Until its 2006 decision to consolidate hospital clinical systems with Cerner, Sharp had adopted common applications across all facilities, utilizing in a best-of-breed strategy toward its electronic medical record including a number of well-known applications on a common clinical desktop. Spooner has also led the rollout of the Allscripts Touchworks EHR in the Sharp medical groups. Sharp has received several awards for its leading-edge consumer Web site. As a highly penetrated managed care environment, Sharp was an early leader in its EDI development among its payers and providers. 

Spooner is a member of the Healthcare Information Systems Executive Association (HISEA), the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) and a Fellow in the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME), for which he served as the 2006 chair. He is on the Editorial Board of Healthcare IT News. He recently joined the California Hospital Association Health Informatics and Technology Committee. He was previously active with Cal-RHIO, where he co-chaired the Technology Working Group in 2005. 


Last Updated: January 26, 2010