Full Name
Brian Patty MD, CHCIO Eligible
Job Title
VP and CMIO
Company
Rush University Medical Center
Speaker Bio
Brian D. Patty, MD, CHCIO:
With over 20 years’ experience in healthcare informatics, Dr. Patty is currently Vice President Clinical Information Systems and Chief Medical Informatics Officer (CMIO) at Rush University Medical Center where he oversees the optimization of Epic and related clinical applications. Dr. Patty’s most recent accomplishments at Rush:
• Successfully led a suite of improvement projects in partnership with key provider stakeholders, resulting in streamlined workflows, improved documentation, and simplified ordering tools – leading to improved clinician efficiency resulting in the top EHR satisfaction scores for an AMC in the KLAS Arch Collaborative and Reduction in physician turnover from 12% in 2018 to 9% in 2019 and to 6% in the first six months of FY’ 20
• Optimized efficiency and shortened time spent in EMR through new tools, including natural language processing (NLP) that enabled improved document quality and long-term CMI improvements.
• Launched a new, highly innovative patient engagement strategy resulting in the broad deployment of virtual care tools across the continuum of care.
• Boosted physician engagement by founding a Certified Epic Physician Builder Program, which brought in 8 new Associate CMIO physicians within six months resulting in Rush landing in the 90th percentile for physician trust in IT in the KLAS Arch Collaborative
He was named as one of 30 leading CMIO Experts by Health Data Management Magazine in 2016 and again in 2017 and one of 50 Hospital and Health System CMIOs to Know by Becker’s Hospital Review in 2017.
Prior to coming to Rush in March of 2015, he served for ten years as VP and CMIO at the HealthEast Care System in St. Paul MN. As the CMIO at HealthEast, he was responsible for championing clinical applications and the use of technology to serve patients and improve the quality of care, leading computerized provider order entry (CPOE) and electronic health record (EHR) implementations system wide. His final project at HealthEast was as the executive lead for the “Big Bang” implementation of Epic’s entire suite of clinical and revenue cycle applications across the four hospitals and 31 clinics of the HealthEast Care System.
Dr. Patty’s long-standing quest to promote quality improvement through evidence-based medicine led to an AMDIS Award in 2005 for his success in a CPOE implementation at a community hospital and ultimately to his role as the CMIO for HealthEast. In 2011 Dr. Patty received another AMDIS award for his championing the EHR’s role in the quality improvement efforts at HealthEast. He was also named to Modern Healthcare’s Top 25 Clinical Informaticists in that same year and was the winner of the 2012 Healthcare Informatics/AMDIS IT Innovation Advocate Award.
With over 20 years’ experience in healthcare informatics, Dr. Patty is currently Vice President Clinical Information Systems and Chief Medical Informatics Officer (CMIO) at Rush University Medical Center where he oversees the optimization of Epic and related clinical applications. Dr. Patty’s most recent accomplishments at Rush:
• Successfully led a suite of improvement projects in partnership with key provider stakeholders, resulting in streamlined workflows, improved documentation, and simplified ordering tools – leading to improved clinician efficiency resulting in the top EHR satisfaction scores for an AMC in the KLAS Arch Collaborative and Reduction in physician turnover from 12% in 2018 to 9% in 2019 and to 6% in the first six months of FY’ 20
• Optimized efficiency and shortened time spent in EMR through new tools, including natural language processing (NLP) that enabled improved document quality and long-term CMI improvements.
• Launched a new, highly innovative patient engagement strategy resulting in the broad deployment of virtual care tools across the continuum of care.
• Boosted physician engagement by founding a Certified Epic Physician Builder Program, which brought in 8 new Associate CMIO physicians within six months resulting in Rush landing in the 90th percentile for physician trust in IT in the KLAS Arch Collaborative
He was named as one of 30 leading CMIO Experts by Health Data Management Magazine in 2016 and again in 2017 and one of 50 Hospital and Health System CMIOs to Know by Becker’s Hospital Review in 2017.
Prior to coming to Rush in March of 2015, he served for ten years as VP and CMIO at the HealthEast Care System in St. Paul MN. As the CMIO at HealthEast, he was responsible for championing clinical applications and the use of technology to serve patients and improve the quality of care, leading computerized provider order entry (CPOE) and electronic health record (EHR) implementations system wide. His final project at HealthEast was as the executive lead for the “Big Bang” implementation of Epic’s entire suite of clinical and revenue cycle applications across the four hospitals and 31 clinics of the HealthEast Care System.
Dr. Patty’s long-standing quest to promote quality improvement through evidence-based medicine led to an AMDIS Award in 2005 for his success in a CPOE implementation at a community hospital and ultimately to his role as the CMIO for HealthEast. In 2011 Dr. Patty received another AMDIS award for his championing the EHR’s role in the quality improvement efforts at HealthEast. He was also named to Modern Healthcare’s Top 25 Clinical Informaticists in that same year and was the winner of the 2012 Healthcare Informatics/AMDIS IT Innovation Advocate Award.
