Biography - Daniel Garrett

Daniel Garrett
Vice President and Managing Partner, Global Health Solutions
Computer Sciences Corporation

Daniel Garrett is vice president and managing partner of CSC's Global Health Solutions (GHS) practice, a division within the company's U.S. Consulting Group. He is responsible for leading all healthcare activities across CSC.

GHS provides consulting and information technology (IT) services to a variety of life sciences, pharmaceutical, health provider and health plan organizations nationwide. The GHS group works with CSCs Federal Sector business unit to support similar efforts on behalf of the companys civil and Department of Defense clients. GHS also collaborates with CSCs Technology Management Group and local operations in Asia, Europe and Australia to support national and global outsourcing and systems integration engagements with healthcare organizations.

Garrett has more than 26 years of experience in consulting and IT services. He joined CSC in 1995 as director of the Consumer and Industrial Products practice and grew the organization to one of the largest U.S. practices in the company. Prior to his current position, he served as vice president, Healthcare Solutions, for Consulting Group. Previous management responsibilities include directing national professional services and systems integration organizations; managing large applications development groups; program and project management of multi-million dollar global initiatives; and leading corporate marketing organizations.

Garrett holds a bachelors degree in computer and information science from Temple University. He is a founding member of the Interoperability Consortium, an alliance between Accenture, Cisco, CSC, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Intel, Microsoft and Oracle. He is currently serving as executive vice chair of the Markle Foundation/Robert Wood Johnson Foundations Connecting for Health initiative. He is a member of the eHealth Initiative Leadership Council, the eHealth Initiative Board of Directors, the Northern Technology Council, the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society, the Council for Logistics Management, the Board of Trustees of the Malcolm Baldridge Foundation, and a founding board member of the National Alliance for Healthcare IT.