Allana Cummings
VP & CMIO
Children’s Hospital and Medical Center

Allana Cummings has served as chief information officer of Children’s Hospital in Omaha since 2005.  In 2006, she was named vice president while also continuing on with her CIO role. During Ms. Cummings’ tenure, Children’s has received national recognition for its efforts in implementing electronic medical records and other technologies to advance the safety of patient care including: InfoWorld 100 award (2007), Eclipsys President’s award (2007), and Most Wired Most Improved (2005 & 2006).  Prior to joining Children’s, Ms. Cummings’ was director of IT operations for Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta.  She has over 19 years of healthcare experience in information systems, project management, and health information management. 

Ms. Cummings holds an executive MBA from the Ken Blanchard College of Business at Grand Canyon University and a bachelor's degree in Organization Leadership from Mercer University.  Ms. Cummings is a certified project management professional and certified professional in healthcare information and management systems.  She is a member of the College of Health Information Management Executives, the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society, the American Health Information Management Association, and the Project Management Institute