Press release provided by Kim McLaughlin to Patch. 

Virtua President & Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Richard P. Miller was recently honored as a recipient of the 2012 CEO Information Technology (IT) Achievement Award. This award is co-sponsored by Modern Healthcare and the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS).

The award recognizes healthcare CEOs who demonstrate leadership and a commitment to using information technology to advance their organizations goals. A panel of five judges chose this year’s three recipients who also included Steven M. Altschuler, President & CEO of The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), and Lynn Britton, President & CEO of Mercy in Chesterfield, Missouri.

These 2012 award recipients were chosen from a group of sixty-three nominees.