Brian Patty MD, CHCIO

Dr. Patty is VP and CMIO at Rush University Medical Center where he oversees the optimization of Epic and related clinical applications and is charged with setting the strategic vision for clinical care and population heath from an IT perspective. Prior to coming to Rush in March of 2015 he served for 10 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, leading computerized provider order entry (CPOE) and electronic health record (EHR) implementations system wide. His long-standing quest to promote 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. 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 4 hospitals and 31 clinics of the HealthEast Care System.