Ralph P. Fargnoli, Jr.
President and CEO
Beacon Partners
Bio
Ralph Fargnoli, Jr., possesses over 25 years of practical hands-on technical and hospital administration experience providing him with the foundation to build Beacon Partners from the ground up. Opening the doors with a single service line, Fargnoli recognized early on that in order to be a successful consultancy, Beacon Partners would need to expand its service offerings to include business and clinical operations, information technology implementations, and strategic planning. It is on this premise that Beacon Partners has thrived for almost two decades.
With an extensive background in computer systems conversions and implementations, systems integration, operations management and enterprise-wide systems adoption, Fargnoli fundamentally understands the healthcare management consulting business from the inside out. Prior to founding Beacon Partners Fargnoli served as implementation and systems manager for IDX Systems (GE Healthcare), a leading provider of software, services and technology for healthcare provider organizations.
Fargnoli is a respected leader with regular speaking engagements and consulting projects with leading organizations such as New England Medical Center, Yale School of Medicine, St. Louis University, and Washington University School of Medicine. Fargnoli also stays actively involved within the industry through his affiliation with organizations such as MGMA, HIMSS, CHIME, and sits on the board of trustees for the CHIME Foundation. Additionally, Fargnoli’s writings have been published in such publications as Health Management Technology and Advance for Health Information Professionals.
Fargnoli is a graduate of the University of Rhode Island with a degree in
Business Administration and holds an MBA from Bryant University.
While there is a level of enthusiasm surrounding the ARRA economic stimulus initiative, there is also much confusion and uncertainty. Join Ralph Fargnoli as he speaks with Healthcare Informatics editor-in-chief Anthony Guerra to discuss this very important topic during HIMSS09 in Chicago.
With so many disparate systems in healthcare organizations today, listen to Ralph Fargnoli and Mitch Paine, director of healthcare enterprise technologies at Beacon Partners, discuss the challenges and demands of data integration and interoperability.
Listen to Ralph and special guest Neil McLaughlin, managing editor for Modern Healthcare, discuss what the new Obama administration will mean to the future of healthcare and the healthcare industry.
Massachusetts recently implemented landmark healthcare reforms. What were the changes, what was the impetus, and what has been the impact on Massachusetts’ hospitals? Listen now to find out.
Listen to Ralph and guest Kevin Burchill as they discuss what’s on the minds of every healthcare provider’s C-suite: programs, people, productivity and the creation of new revenue streams.
