Voice technologies and ambient intelligence hold promise for improvements and efficiencies in clinical workflow. During the past few years vendors and services have emerged from both within and outside healthcare. The Scottsdale Institute convened 24 chief medical informatics officers (CMIOs) for a virtual roundtable on August 20, 2020, to discuss the current technologies and use cases of voice and speech technologies and their ability to help merge the historically siloed verticals of documentation, clinical documentation improvement (CDI), utilization management, case management, and billing coding, and enable these combined functions to be more clinically driven. The CMIO Roundtable Report captures that discussion.
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SI 2020 CMIO Virtual Roundtable
August 20, 2020

PARTICIPANTS
Alan Weiss, MD
CMIO, BayCare Health System
Dr. Alan M. Weiss joined the BayCare Health System as their CMIO in August, 2018. He primary responsibilities over all clinical systems, their associated governance as well as over providing executive leadership over data and analytics. Prior to BayCare, Dr....
Ash Goel, MD, MS, MBA
SVP/CIO, Bronson Healthcare
Ash Goel, MD, MS, MBA, serves as the Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer (CIO) for Bronson Healthcare. His primary responsibilities encompass overseeing the organization’s enterprise technology portfolio and leading the digital and innovation strategy. He is an industry...
Goel
Bonny Chen, MD, MBA, FACEP, CPHIMS
Chief Health Informatics Officer, Hospital Sisters Health System
Dr. Bonny Chen recently joined Hospital Sisters Health System (HSHS) as its new chief health informatics officer. Prior, Chen most recently served as Ascension’s vice president and chief medical IS officer and also held leadership roles at AdventHealth and AMITA...
Brian Young, MD, MBA, MSPA
System Physician Informaticist, CommonSpirit Health
Brian Young, MD is a physician informaticist on the CommonSpirit Health Clinical Data Science team. As product owner Dr. Young is responsible for data discovery, advanced analytics, and insights for enterprise-level projects. These projects span clinical service line institutes and...
Christopher Sharp, MD
Clinical Professor of Medicine, Stanford School of Medicine; CMIO, Stanford Health Care
Dr. Sharp serves as the Chief Medical Information Officer at Stanford Health Care, where he is a physician leader in the application of innovative clinical technologies for the delivery of care. Dr. Sharp is accountable for integrating and transforming health...
Craig Norquist, MD
Fellowship Director, Chief Medical Information Officer, HonorHealth
Dr Norquist serves as the CMIO for HonorHealth as well as the Clinical Informatics Fellowship Director. He is board certified in Emergency Medicine as well as Clinical Informatics and is an EPIC physician builder. Prior to becoming CMIO, he was...
David Wetherhold, MD
CMIO, Ambulatory Systems, Scripps Health
Dr. David Wetherhold, MD is Senior Consultant in Internal Medicine at Scripps Clinic where he has served his patients with distinction since 1991. A proud alumnus of the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Dr. Wetherhold is not only a...
Diego Ize-Ludlow, MD
CHIO, Intermountain Healthcare
As Chief Health Information Officer for Intermountain, Dr. Ize-Ludlow provides leadership and strategic vision for effective cross-professional teams that focus on how health information technology can help people live the healthiest lives possible. Prior to joining Intermountain, Dr. Ize-Ludlow served...
Francis Chan, MD
Interim CMIO, Loma Linda University Health
Dr. Francis Chan is currently serving as the interim Chief Medical Information Officer at Loma Linda University Health. Dr. Chan received his Doctor of Medicine from the Loma Linda University School of Medicine. After completing his combined Internal Medicine and...
Jeffrey Sunshine, MD, PhD
VP & CMIO, University Hospitals
As a leading voice in the CMIO community, Dr. Sunshine is recognized for his efforts to promote and advance the use of technology to improve patient outcomes. In Cleveland, he is the primary liaison between University Hospitals (UH) clinical and...
Jim Schweigert, MD, FACEP
CMIO, Corewell Health
Jim Schweigert is Vice President, CMIO, of Corewell Health. In his role, Jim has strategic and operational responsibility for Informatics and Epic Education. Jim’s focus is on ensuring Corewell Health is leading the nation in its use of technology by...
Matt Sullivan, MD
Associate CMIO, Atrium Health
Dr. Matt Sullivan, the Associate CMIO for Atrium Health, has a long history of commitment to improving patient outcomes and provider satisfaction through effective utilization of Healthcare Information Technology. Matt has been an emergency physician for over 20 years and...
Michael Ross, MD, FAAP, FACMI
Chief Medical Information Officer, Optum Insight
Michael Ross, MD, FAAP, FACMI, is a Chief Medical Information Officer at Optum Insight, supporting Eastern Maine Medical Center – Northern Light Health. Dr. Ross splits his time between Medical Informatics and General Pediatrics. When not shepherding bits and bytes of...
Qammer A. Bokhari, MD, MBA, MHSA, CPHIT
CMIO, AdventHealth
A general and trauma surgeon by training, Dr. Bokhari is a seasoned physician executive with 29 years’ experience in a unique blend of clinical medicine, clinical and business administration, healthcare informatics and technology. In his current role as the Chief...
S. Nicholas Desai, DPM, MBA, FACFAS
COO, Chief Medical and Quality Officer, Houston Methodist Cypress Hospital
S. Nicholas Desai, DPM, MBA, FACFAS is the Chief Operating Officer, Chief Medical Officer and Chief Quality Officer at Houston Methodist Cypress Hospital. He is also a practicing physician in the Houston Methodist Specialty Physician Group in Houston, Texas. Dr....
Desai
[Not pictured: Harry Schned, MD, Enterprise Physician Informaticist, CommonSpirit Health]
Moderators
Alan Weiss Ash Goel Bonny Chen Brian Young Christopher “Topher” Sharp Christopher Sharp Topher Sharp Craig Norquist Crystal Mosca David Wetherhold Diego Ize-Ludlow Francis Chan Howard Goldberg James Douglas Jeffrey Sunshine Jeffrey Terrell Jim Schweigert Joe Boyce Matt Sullivan Matthew Eisenberg Michael Ross S. Nicholas Desai Nicholas Desai Nick Desai Vic Becker Harry Schned Jeffrey Rose Qammer A. Bokhari Qammer Bokhari
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