HCA Healthcare reported that Chad Wasserman, a nearly 30-year veteran of the company, has been appointed senior vice president and chief information officer, as of February 1. The company said that Wasserman succeeds P. Martin "Marty" Paslick, who is retiring after 38 years with HCA Healthcare. Wasserman will lead more than 6,700 colleagues in the Information Technology Group (ITG), which provides global IT strategy, solutions and support for HCA Healthcare and its hospitals and sites of care. He will oversee the group's array of solutions including infrastructure, cloud, automation, data engineering, software development, enterprise systems and clinical technology initiatives.

Wasserman has been with HCA Healthcare for 28 years and previously served as senior vice president and chief operating officer for ITG. Throughout his career with the company, he has served in a variety of senior leadership positions including vice president of ITG Service Line and Corporate Solutions, vice president of ITG Digital Patient Experience and vice president of ITG Infrastructure Services and Operations. Prior to 2017, Wasserman was chief information officer of Parallon Business Performance Group.

Paslick is retiring after serving as chief information officer for 11 years. He joined HCA Healthcare's ITG in 1985, going on to become the department's first chief operating officer in 2010. Under Paslick's leadership, HCA Healthcare invested in the mobility of the company's workforce through strategic partnerships to support clinical care and deployed one of the larger iOS platforms in the country, which enabled mobile capability for the company's more than 93,000 nurses.

Paslick also led the development of new IT units and transformed HCA Healthcare's field-based IT operations, including the launch of the company's Clinical Data Warehouse. Paslick also played a key role in transitioning HCA Healthcare to the Cloud, designed to help create a secure and dynamic data analytics platform through a partnership with Google Cloud. He was also instrumental in beginning the planned enterprise-wide transition to Meditech Expanse.