Liberty Pacific Medical Imaging names new CIO

Liberty Pacific Medical Imaging (LPMI), a developer, owner and operator of diagnostic imaging centers, announced the appointment of Anthony Draye to the newly created post of chief information officer (CIO).
   
Draye is responsible for overseeing the company’s IT infrastructure, including management of the company’s RIS and PACS at its three centers as well as continually investigating new technologies to enhance LPMI’s multi-location network operations.
   
Before joining LPMI, Draye served as software engineer in research and development for The Boeing Company in Seattle. Prior, he was a software engineer at Helicon Networks Inc., where he developed a suite of operations support system (OSS) applications based on a distributed computing platform. Previously, Draye was a network specialist for the University of Washington Medical Centers Information Systems.

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