Emory Healthcare has named Nitu Kashyap, MD, FAMIA, a distinguished leader with expertise in health care informatics and technology, as chief health informatics officer (CHIO). Kashyap will begin her role at Emory on Feb. 5, 2024.
Health care informatics can be defined as a combination of health care and data analytics. In this position, Kashyap will provide leadership and direction for informatics initiatives across the health care system. She will oversee technology projects within and across all clinical disciplines to ensure projects remain aligned with the institution’s strategic goals in patient experience and care, teaching and research. She will also work closely with Emory University information technology clinical and administrative leaders to effectively create positive change in systems, workflow and culture.
“Dr. Kashyap is a respected clinician with a deep aptitude for the application of technology into clinical and administrative workflows,” says Alistair Erskine, MD, chief information and digital officer for Emory Healthcare. “In the CHIO role, she will also serve as a technical solutions architect and a clinical subject matter expert. We are thrilled to welcome her to Emory.”
Kashyap comes to Emory Healthcare from Yale New Haven Health System in New Haven, Connecticut, where she serves as chief medical information officer. In this position, she plays a pivotal role in advancing population health informatics and clinical decision support. She is also an assistant clinical professor in internal medicine and biostatistics (health informatics) at Yale School of Medicine. Kashyap has served in a number of leadership positions since joining Yale New Haven Health System in 2011. Prior to that, she held the position of assistant medical director of informatics at the Fallon Clinic at Worchester, Massachusetts, and as a physician champion for the electronic health record (EHR) at Kaiser Permanente in Gaithersburg, Maryland.
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