Rick Allen is the Assistant Vice President/ CTO at Navicent Health. He is a Healthcare IT Professional with a background in infrastructure and technology. He is also a Business Director who specializes in driving excellence through continuous process improvement within IT organizations, capitalizing on his proven skills in IT strategy, infrastructure management, project management, and health information security. He has over twenty years experience in fast-paced, entrepreneurial and intellectually stimulating environments and is an effective leader relentlessly driving towards optimizing efficiency and maximizing effectiveness.