Dana Osei

About

I was CIO at Grady Health System for seven years, managing a $120M IT budget and 280 IT staff through a full EHR migration. Before healthcare, I led enterprise IT at two Fortune 500 manufacturing companies. My fractional CIO practice focuses on organisations that have significant IT complexity but don't need (or can't afford) a full-time CIO: regional health systems, mid-market manufacturers, and professional services firms modernising 15-year-old infrastructure.

Experience highlights

The Grady Health System EHR migration was one of the largest Epic implementations in the southeastern United States at the time — $42M project, 6,200 staff trained, 18-month timeline, completed on time and within 4% of budget. The implementation required managing nine system integrators simultaneously and maintaining clinical operations at a Level 1 trauma centre throughout.

Before healthcare, I was VP IT at NCR Corporation, where I led the global IT infrastructure consolidation from 47 data centres to 6 regional hubs over three years. The project generated $180M in run-rate savings and became a case study in the IBM Global Services portfolio.

My fractional CIO practice focuses on organisations where the IT function has grown organically without strategic direction — typically mid-market companies with $50M–$500M revenue that have 15–20 years of accumulated technical debt, no coherent vendor strategy, and a security posture that keeps the board awake. I also advise boards directly on technology risk and cybersecurity governance — an increasingly common request since the SEC's cybersecurity disclosure rules went into effect.

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