Baptist Memorial Health Care appoints first CMIO

John Brown, MD, recently was named CMIO for Baptist Memorial Health Care, a newly created position. He will be responsible for overseeing physician input and participation in the hospital’s implementation of the EMR.

Before coming to Baptist, Brown served as director of clinical content development and director of clinical informatics at T-System, a company that specializes in emergency medicine electronic documentation. He served as the first elected chairman of the Section of Computers of the American College of Emergency Physicians. Brown also served on the Emergency Care Special Interest Group for HL7, which standardizes interoperability of health IT.


 

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