CARDINAL CONSULTING - Key Persons

Alton Brantley

Job Titles:
  • Principal in the CCG Group
Dr. Brantley is a Principal in The CCG Group. (CCG). Prior to joining CCG he was Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer of MedStar Health, formed out of the merger of Helix Health of Baltimore, MD and Medlantic Healthcare Group in Washington, DC, and more recently with Georgetown University. Prior to Medstar he was with the Pennsylvania State University Milton S. Hershey Medical Center as Chief Information Officer for the 500 bed academic medical center and the College of Medicine. Prior to Hershey, he was with Duke University as the Director of Academic Computing. Dr. Brantley performed his internship, residency oncology fellowship at Duke University Medical Center. Dr. Brantley has served as a consultant to multinational pharmaceutical companies, technology companies, information technology services companies, national not-for-profit healthcare related organizations, and academic and community hospital facilities. Dr. Brantley's expertise is in the areas of Information Technology organization structure, clinical informatics, information technology capabilities and applications, complex project structuring and management, IT aspects of mergers and acquisitions, and operations improvement through application of information technology.

Frank Cavanaugh

Job Titles:
  • Principal
  • Reviewer for HFMA Journal
Frank Cavanaugh formed and is a Principal in The CCG Group and was the Principal-in-Charge of the Strategic Information Technology Planning Division of PricewaterhouseCoopers' Health Care Consulting Services Practice prior to his retirement in August of 2000. Based in Chicago, he has over 35 years experience in the information technology field, including over 30 years in health care information systems. He has extensive experience in the use of automation in health care, having worked as a manager of information systems for a hospital group and with three HIS vendors prior to his 21 years with PricewaterhouseCoopers. He offers clients a broad industry perspective on the health care information technology market and the needs of health care users. · Mr. Cavanaugh has served as a manuscript reviewer for HFMA Journal, Healthcare Financial Management, and provided input to the Health Care Advisory Board for the publication, Superlative Clinical Quality.