

Colarusso spent 17 years on the EMR vendor side implementing, developing and updating hospital software. He has been a leading executive in the acquisitions and on boarding of new hospitals to the Steward system.

He has led Steward’s initiative to standardize the EMR platform, successfully transitioning all Steward’s acute care facilities to one platform in 2020. Colarusso joined Steward in 2012 and has held numerous leadership roles, most recently serving as Steward’s Deputy Chief Information Officer. de la Torre graduated from Duke University in 1988 (B.S.E.), where he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Tau Beta Pi, and from a joint program between Harvard Medical School (M.D.) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.S.) in 1992.ĭavid Colarusso has over 25 years of Healthcare Information Technology (HIT) experience, holding leadership roles for both the HIT vendor industry and large integrated healthcare provider organizations. He was recently voted one of the 25 most powerful physician executives in the United States by Modern Healthcare magazine. de la Torre has bylined and/or been featured in Businessweek, Fortune, CNBC, The Wall Street Journal, and Fox Business, among other outlets. A frequent commentator on national health care policy issues, Dr. He has founded several health care-related businesses and has numerous issued or pending patents.

de la Torre was Chief of Cardiac Surgery at BIDMC and a Harvard Medical Faculty Physician at BIDMC ‒ he was widely recognized as one of the top cardiac surgeons in the nation. de la Torre was founder and CEO of the Cardiovascular Institute at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) and of Cardiovascular Management Associates, one of the nation's first totally integrated systems for treating cardiac patients. de la Torre was CEO of Caritas Christi Health Care, where he led the transformation of a six-hospital system and developed the business model for Steward, which was subsequently invested in by Cerberus Capital Management. Ralph de la Torre is the Chairman and CEO of Steward Health Care Systems LLC.
