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Marx's primary responsibilities include assessing current and future technology needs in support of developing and implementing a strategy and roadmap for a rational approach to information technology that aligns Texas Health systems, projects and technology support with clinical and business needs.

Marx started his career at Poudre Valley Hospital in Fort Collins, Colo., as a physician services coordinator, which leveraged his training as a medic in the Army Reserve.  He was then recruited to Parkview Health System in Pueblo, Colo., where he was CIO for the system's Management Services Organization and director of the system's Physicians Information Systems.

From there, Marx joined HCA in Nashville, Tenn., in 1997, to lead a major push into physician information systems and managed care. He was chief technologist for Columbia Physician Services, a $2 billion division serving more than 2,200 physicians and more than 900 practices across the country. Marx was recruited to University Hospitals (UH) of Cleveland in 1999. In 2002, he earned the title of deputy CIO, responsible for managing outsourced IT functions. He then was promoted to CIO in July of 2003.

ComputerWorld magazine named Marx to it's list of Premier 100 IT Leaders for 2010.

Marx is a member of several notable professional organizations, including the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME), the National Alliance for Health Information Technology (NAHIT), the Society of Information Management (SIM), and he is a fellow of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS). He has served as the president of the Ohio and Tennessee Chapters of HIMSS and as the HIMSS board-appointed chair of the Membership Services Committee. Marx serves as an advisor to both Southern Methodist University and Texas Christian University.

Marx earned his B.S. in psychology and an M.S. in business from Colorado State University. As a student, he managed the university's forecasting computer lab.

As chief information officer at the University of California Irvine, Health Affairs, and associate dean of IT and informatics for UC Irvine's School of Medicine, Jim Murry is responsible for taking the electronic medical record system, begun in 1984, into the 21st century. He develops the strategy and brings together the resources that will ensure EMR success at a medical center ranked among the top 50 in the nation. The high-priority, complex implementation includes a new hospital facility and 60 specialized ambulatory clinics.

Murry's information services strategy is breaking new ground in EMR mobility. He has worked closely with the EMR system provider, Allscripts, to develop a platform using iPhones and iPads. In addition, UC Irvine's School of Medicine was the first in the nation to provide tablet computers as an innovative way to present the challenging curriculum. First-year medical students are presented an iPad loaded with all of their books, notes, presentations, and videos.

A graduate of UC Irvine, Murry has been in the information technology field since 1974 and in healthcare since 1984. At Kaiser Permanente, he served as the enterprise architect and vice president of IT national operations.

As CIO at City of Hope National Cancer Center and Beckman Research Institute, he was charged with selecting and implementing the EMR system.

Murry serves on the board of directors for the Orange County Partnership Regional Health Information Organization, a collaboration of healthcare providers whose mission is to facilitate health information exchange.