Judy Murphy RN, FACMI, FHIMSS, FAAN

Dr. Judy Murphy is Chief Nursing Officer (CNO) and Director-Global Business Services at IBM Healthcare. Prior to this she was CNO/Director-Office of Clinical Quality & Safety, and Deputy National Coordinator for Programs and Policy at the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC), Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) in Washington D.C. In both roles she served to advance the vision of using health IT to improve health care, lower costs, and promote consumers’ use of health IT for their own health. She came to ONC in Dec 2011 with more than 25 years of health informatics experience at Aurora Health Care in Wisconsin. As VP-EHR Applications, she led their EHR program since 1995 and managed the organization’s achievement of EHR Meaningful Use.

Her informatics interests lie in system implementation, project management, patient engagement, and use of technology to support evidence-based practice; she has published and lectured nationally and internationally on these topics. She has a long-standing reputation of patient advocacy and maintaining a patient-centric point of view, and approaches her work with unyielding energy as well as passion and commitment to the healthcare transformation enabled by technology.

Judy was on the Health IT Standards Committee for 3 years, where she co-chaired their Implementation Workgroup, and was a member of the Meaningful Use Workgroup. She served on the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Board of Directors and the Health Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Board of Directors. She is a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing, the American College of Medical Informatics and HIMSS. She received the 2006 HIMSS Nursing Informatics Leadership Award, was named one of the “20 People Who Make Healthcare Better” in 2007 by HealthLeaders magazine, and was selected as one of 33 Nursing Informatics’ Pioneers to participate in the Nursing Informatics History Project sponsored by AMIA, NLM, AAN, & RWJF.

Specialties:Project Management, System Lifecycle, IT Governance, Nursing Informatics, Use of computers in healthcare, Automated clinical documentation, Use of technology to support evidence-based practice, Use of technology to promote patient engagement