SOUTH BEND – Steve Huffman has been named chief information officer for the Newly Affiliated Organization that combines Elkhart General Hospital and Memorial Health System of South Bend.

Huffman has been vice president and chief information officer at Memorial Hospital since 2008. He joined Memorial in 1997 as manager of the data center and has served as director of information technology.

Currently, he serves on the board of the Indiana Healthcare Information Management Systems Society, board of manager for Michiana Health Information Network and the Data Management Council for the Indiana Hospital Association.

Huffman is a graduate of Wesleyan University and received his MBA from the University of Notre Dame.