Leadership Team

Aspen’s leadership team is highly skilled and dedicated to getting you and your organization to the best outcome…

Daniel S. HermanDaniel S. Herman, FHIMSS
Managing Principal

Daniel S. Herman has over 25 years experience in healthcare information technology strategic planning, design and implementation; clinical systems planning and patient safety improvement; and business process redesign.  His clients have included academic medical centers, multi facility/multi regional Integrated Delivery Networks, large physician group practices, provider-sponsored managed care organizations and start-up technology companies. Mr. Herman has authored numerous articles and given presentations on various aspects of healthcare information technology management and how to obtain value from those investments.

Prior to founding Aspen Advisors, Mr. Herman co-founded a boutique healthcare consulting firm specializing in physician adoption of advanced clinical systems (Dearborn Advisors) and served as a Senior Vice President.  He also served as a Regional Vice President in a publicly traded healthcare information technology professional services firm (First Consulting Group), a manager in the healthcare consulting division of a national CPA firm (KPMG/Bearing Point), an implementation manager for a healthcare software vendor (McKesson) and a management engineer in an academic medical center (Loyola University Medical Center, Chicago).

Mr. Herman earned an M.B.A. specializing in Information Systems from the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University and a B.S. in Industrial and Operations Engineering from the University of Michigan.  He is a Fellow of the Healthcare Information Management & Systems Society (HIMSS) and has served on the Board and as a past president of the Colorado, Greater Chicago and Western Pennsylvania HIMSS Chapters.