Award Category - Senior Executive: All my qualifications for “changemaker” are possible because some people believed in me before I believed in me. I’m fortunate to have served in forward-looking organizations that magnified my impact. I helped lead Cleveland Clinic, NYC H&H, THR and UH through transformation. I authored multiple bestselling books, created hundreds of podcasts, blogs and webinars on leadership and diversity. My biggest influences are 18 CIO’s today who once reported to me. They are the real changemakers.

Award Category - Senior Executive: Dr. Kathleen McGrow leverages her expertise at the intersection of clinical knowledge and information technology to drive digital transformation imperatives such as workforce engagement, provider enablement, patient engagement, and operational efficiencies. Her expertise in data, analytics and artificial intelligence is used to identify areas for organizational improvements. Dr. McGrow’s current focus is on Workforce Crisis initiatives including the discovery of solutions that identify employees at risk for moral distress and promote and address employee wellbeing.

Award Category - Senior Executive: Brett is the first-ever CMIO at Parkland Health and helped steward the paper-based hospital to a fully electronic institution within 3 years and ultimately being one of few safety net organizations to win two HIMSS Davies Awards. His current interests include predictive analytics, addressing physician burnout, using clinical informatics to address health equity, and developing innovative solutions/safety net methodology for capturing potential patient care omissions. He is pioneering strategies to better empower underserved patient in their wellness journey through a digital health strategy.

Award Category - Senior Executive: Joe Longo serves as SVP/CIO for Parkland Health, a large public health system in Dallas, Texas. He prides himself in the service of public health, applying advanced healthcare IT capabilities to environments typically under-represented in the high-tech community. Joe holds designations of CHCIO and CDH-E from CHIME. He propelled Parkland to achieve 7 Most-Wired awards, HITRUST certification, Stage-7 HIMSS Analytics Maturity Model, the prestigious Davies Awards (2017 & 2022), and is a proud recipient of the Dallas CIO Orbie Award -2022 CIO of the Year for his IT leadership in public health and pursuit of health equity.

Award Category - Senior Executive: As Chief Clinical Information Officer at Ohio State's medical center and professor of Family Medicine, Biomedical Informatics, Nursing and Public Health, Dr Rizer has led EMR installation and co-founded the clinical informatics fellowship. Since then, she has participated in HIMSS EMRAM stage 7 visits globally. Dr Rizer achieved HIMSS Fellow, CPHIMS certification, and was first woman to be Epic's Physician of the Year, as well as service on KLAS, HIMSS and Epic's advisory boards.

Award Category - Senior Executive: “Extraordinary patient experience” - Yanwar enthusiastically believed this could be achievable since he joined Pondok Indah Hospital Group. He believes digital transformation is one of the ways to achieve that. In 2008, Yanwar began his first attempt of digitizing patient data into an EMR, not a common practice at that time. Eventually, under Yanwar’s encouragement and leadership, all three hospitals within the hospital group became entirely connected in real-time. In April 2022, the three hospitals were first in Indonesia to achieved Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model (EMRAM) Stage 6.

Award Category - Senior Executive: Srinivasan Suresh is a board-certified informatician, Professor of Pediatrics, Vice-President, CIO & CMIO of a leading children’s hospital, and a practicing pediatric emergency physician. He was instrumental in his organization winning the Davies award, and maintaining HIMSS Stage 7 recognition (EMRAM, O-EMRAM). An informatics researcher, he leads multi-disciplinary teams in applying business intelligence (measurably enhance healthcare for children), and in implementing robust clinical decision support tools (improve quality outcomes and control costs).

Award Category - Senior Executive: With over 25 years of healthcare experience, Ray is a strong advocate of health equity and culturally competent care, Ray delivers quality-based care and health equity initiatives for socially challenged economic areas to more than 400,000 people. He has an instrumental role in transforming and providing healthcare to the S. Cal Medicaid patient population, particularly for low-income, Latino, multi-ethnic and underserved communities. As an innovator, he adopted a mobile-first strategy and led a holistic digital framework transformation which included remote patient monitoring and care transitions focused on value-based care outcome.