Janet King
Technical Project Manager, Regional Initiatives
phone: 615.343.7387
janet.king@vanderbilt.edu

Janet King joined the Vanderbilt eHealth Initiative in December, 2004 as the Technical Project Manager. Prior to coming to Vanderbilt, she was employed by First Consulting Group. Her most recent assignment with First had been Testing Manager for a large scale Epic implementation which included ambulatory and inpatient physician order entry and clinical documentation.

Janet’s entire professional life has been in health care. She began her health care career as a Registered Radiographer in 1977. She holds a Bachelor of Health Science (BHS) from the University of Kentucky (1989). She leveraged her operations experience and BHS to enter the dynamic world of information technology project management. In herfirst IT position she was fortunate to land a position as a Hospital Project Director working under the direction of a more experienced Corporate Project Director on a system-wide hospital information system (HIS) implementation. After several years in IS management she joined First Consulting Group (FCG) in 1998 where she spent six years working on a variety of projects from Epic to IDX to Lawson. She received certification in the Epic System Orders and Radiology systems. On her final assignment for First she served as Testing Manager for a large scale Epic implementation which included ambulatory and inpatient physician order entry and clinical documentation.