Charles H. Bell, D.O., B.S. Pharm

Dr. Bell is a graduate of Rider University, BA Biology, Temple University School of Pharmacy, BS Pharm, and Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine. He completed a residency in general internal medicine at Phoenix General Hospital, Phoenix, Arizona. His 40 plus years of experience includes working in multiple roles as a pharmacist, ambulatory medicine, emergency medicine, acute care and critical care medicine, and medical informatics. Dr. Bell completed the AMIA 10 x 10 course in 2010. He has been involved in medical informatics since 1996. He spent ten plus years in private practice before transitioning to a full time hospitalist where he practiced an additional ten years. He has served as the CMIO, Director of the Hospitalist program, and Director of Pharmacy and Therapeutics for Northern Arizona Healthcare.He was a physician informaticist for Catholic Healthcare West, now Dignity Health Care. He served as one of the lead physicians in the transformation of that organization to the unified use of an EMR. He joined HCA in March of 2010 as one of the four physicians to lead the transformation of over 150 hospitals to a unified Meditech environment. His focus was on governance structure and physician documentation. Other important aspects of Dr. Bell’s duties included management of issues pertaining to physician workflows, process improvement, and adoption of the EMR. He also was the national physician champion for HCA’s conversion to Meditech’s 6.0 platform. Additional duties included the oversight of several other national projects and working with the corporate pharmacy team during the company’s conversion to the EMR. He currently is the Chief Medical Officer at CereCore which is the subsidiary of HCA that supports internal as well as commercial Meditech projects. His role with CereCore includes leadership of a team that maintains a current Meditech Expanse environment. Dr. Bell has served as a member of the board of directors of several local non-profit organizations in Nashville. His hobbies include music and photography.