In the realm of technology leadership, the journey toward finding a career path that contributes meaningfully to the community often leads to a profound sense of fulfillment. Leaders such as Manuel Pedroza, CIO at Clinica Sierra Vista, exemplify this phenomenon. Pedroza, like many others, discovered his niche in healthcare technology after an extensive career in various sectors, including consulting, managed services, and logistics. The transition into healthcare allowed him to leverage technology to address critical challenges and make a tangible impact on people's lives. This shift not only brought about a sense of professional satisfaction but also highlighted the vast potential of technology to transform healthcare, providing endless opportunities for innovation and improvement. Through their work, leaders in technology who engage with community-centric careers experience exponential growth in their sense of purpose and fulfillment.

Here’s more about Manuel Pedroza

Passionately serving in healthcare to deliver solutions that improve the provider and patient experience.

Demonstrated success in managing network infrastructure, EMR, cloud applications, quality and project management. Results driven with the ability to implement standards, procedures, and processes that improve overall business objectives.

Company description: Clinica Sierra Vista, a non-profit corporation, was created to provide health care to poor, migrant farmworkers who harvest the lush agricultural fields in the southern San Joaquin Valley. Today, Clinica Sierra Vista serves a geographically dispersed, low-moderate-fixed income, ethnically diverse, frontier-rural-urban-migrant-homeless patient population. It has grown to be one of the largest comprehensive migrant/community health center systems in the state.