Mount Sinai Health System announced this week that Lisa S. Stump has been named the new chief digital information officer and dean of information technology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.
WHY IT IS IMPORTANT
Stump will serve as “an important bridge between the clinical, educational and research missions” of the New York City-based health system and the academic medical center, leaders there said, and will also be tasked with bolstering its digital strategy.
Her first task will be to plan and develop a “comprehensive digital ecosystem for enterprises,” Mount Sinai said. The goal is to enhance collaboration between providers and researchers and work to integrate new technologies to enable value creation and drive growth.
She will be responsible for IT, cybersecurity and privacy, technology management, application portfolio management, data democratization, digital experience, analytics and artificial intelligence, health system officials said.
She will also help develop a five-year strategic plan for Mount Sinai and be responsible for executing the technology components of that vision.
Stump has a long resume of IT and clinical informatics experience. Most recently, she was Chief Information and Digital Transformation Officer at Yale New Haven Health and Yale Medicine.
Since 1996, she has worked at Yale, where her positions include director of pharmacy, administrative director of the clinical informatics department, and vice chair of the Epic Project, where she led the consolidation of multiple electronic health records and revenue cycle systems onto a single platform.
Stump also has extensive experience integrating various platforms in enterprise resource planning, bed management, radiology intelligence, infection control, laboratory intelligence, and blood banking. She also helped launch the InSight Tele-ICU platform at Yale.
She graduated from the University of Connecticut School of Pharmacy and the Ohio State University College of Pharmacy with a master’s degree in pharmaceutical management.
THE BIGGER TREND
Mount Sinai has been a leader in healthcare IT and informatics for many years, and in recent months the company has pursued a number of ambitious plans.
Earlier this year, Healthcare IT News spoke with Dr. Bruce Darrow, the health system’s Chief Medical Information Officer—who also served as interim CDIO—for a two-part series on the system’s AI and machine learning initiatives.
In the first part, he described how AI-powered apps are transforming detection and treatment. In the second part, he discussed plans for near-term automation, with the goal of having all of Mount Sinai’s IT systems incorporate some AI within the next five years.
We also recently showed how Mount Sinai reduced IT capital costs for the next 10 years by migrating to the cloud and consolidating data centers and servers.
ON THE RECORD
“I am excited to join Mount Sinai Health System as Chief Digital Information Officer and Dean for Information Technology,” Stump said in a statement. “Together with the talented team at Mount Sinai, known for its dedication to patient care and clinical excellence, I look forward to leveraging advanced technology and innovative strategies to shape the future of health care and make a meaningful impact on the lives and communities we serve.”
“Lisa’s deep expertise in informatics in the clinical and academic settings, in collaboration with our tremendous clinical, research and education leaders, will position Mount Sinai at the forefront of digital innovation,” said Dr. Brendan Carr, CEO of Mount Sinai Health System.
Mike Miliard is Editor-in-Chief of Healthcare IT News
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