Betsy Thornquist

Chief Information Officer

Betsy Thornquist serves as the chief information officer for the St. Vincent's Health System. In addition to managing St. Vincent's relationship with Ascension Health Information Services, she is responsible for health information management, telecommunications and library services at the Medical Center. 

Ms. Thornquist joined St. Vincent's after serving 10 years with Yale New Haven Health System, where she served as director of health system applications and support. Before joining Yale, she held a position in software development at Shared Medical Services/Siemens, and was previously a manager at IBM Credit Corp. 

Ms. Thornquist has a bachelor of arts degree from Wellesley College and a masters in quantitative systems from Arizona State University. She has participated in multiple statewide committees regarding healthcare issues and is a member of both the Healthcare Information Management Systems Society and eHealth Connecticut.