Dick Flanigan, FACHE

As a senior vice president, Dick Flanigan holds general manager responsibilities over several strategic business areas for Cerner. Presently, he co-leads Cerner’s COVID-19 Enterprise Strategy Team. Outside of this team’s commitments, he leads Cerner’s ITWorks business unit, which provides managed services outsourcing for over 30 clients in the United States and United Arab Emirates. He also leads Cerner’s policy and regulatory teams.

Dick joined Cerner in 1994 as vice president of client relationships. Over the past 25 years, Dick has held key executive roles including leading Cerner’s acquisition of Siemens Health Services in 2015. In this role, he oversaw the integration of a workforce of more than 5,000 associates. Dick has led Cerner’s academic and children’s hospital clients as well as Cerner’s Research and Life Sciences business units.

Prior to joining Cerner, Dick spent more than 13 years in client management roles at IBM and was the business unit executive for healthcare in the Mid-Atlantic region.

Dick is a Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives and a Certified Healthcare Executive for the CHIME Foundation.

Dick has a bachelor’s degree in political science and economics from Mount St. Mary’s University. He has a master’s degree in administrative science from Johns Hopkins University.

Passionate about education, Dick serves as board member and immediate past chair of the board of Donnelly College in Kansas City, Kan., board member of University of Missouri—Kansas City, and the Tiger Institute for Health Innovation, a public-private partnership between the University of Missouri Health System and Cerner.