Speaker for the Scottsdale Institute
Tess Settergren
Tess (Theresa) Settergren, MHA, MA, RN-BC is Director, Nursing
Informatics, in the Enterprise Information Services department at
Cedars-Sinai Health System in Los Angeles, CA. Tess directed
several ambulatory electronic medical record implementations for
Cedars-Sinai, and helped to enable integrated enterprise workflows
for computerized physician order management at Cedars-Sinai
Medical Center. Tess has over eighteen years of experience
implementing and optimizing clinical systems and technologies.
She was director for over two hundred clinical applications,
including the enterprise electronic health record, in her position
previous to joining Cedars-Sinai. Tess has been Board Certified in
Nursing Informatics since 1997.
Tess earned her MHA from University of Minnesota Carlson School of Business, and her
MA in Nursing (CNS) from the College of St. Scholastica. She was co-founder and
President of the MInnesota Nursing INformatics Group (MINING) from 2000 to 2007, where
Tess established an annual nursing informatics conference program featuring
internationally recognized informaticists, and collaborated to launch the first and second
Minnesota T.I.G.E.R. conferences. She has served on boards of directors for the Alliance
for Nursing Informatics, Center for Healthcare Innovation, Minnesota Epic User Group,
Community Health Information Collaborative (MN), and on the management committee for
the Minnesota Center for Health Electronic Commerce.