Donette Herring

Donette Herring
Chief Information Officer, Vidant Health
Representative of Critical Access Hospitals

Donette Herring is chief information officer at Vidant Health. In this role, she is responsible for strategic information and technology planning and the selection and implementation of information systems to meet the business needs of Vidant Health. Herring was appointed to this position in October 2013.

Before coming to Vidant Health, she served at Catholic Health East in Pennsylvania as chief information officer from 2006 to 2013 and vice president of information technology shared services from 2004 to 2006. Previously, Herring worked at Catholic Health Services of Long Island, Catholic Health Initiatives, KPMG Peat Marwick and Siemens Corporation (formerly SMS Corporation).

She is a member of the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives, Healthcare Information Management Systems Society, Society of Information Management Professionals and Zynx Health Strategic Advisory Council. Herring holds a bachelor of science in nursing and a master of business administration from Villanova University in Pennsylvania. She also has a Six Sigma green belt certificate from Villanova.