Judy Murphy RN, FACMI, LFHIMSS, FAAN

Judy Murphy is Chief Nursing Officer (CNO) at IBM Global Healthcare, where she is responsible for building relationships and expanding business across the healthcare industry. She is a strategic advisor to clients and puts together health IT solutions in order to improve health and healthcare, lower costs, and ease the clinical workload. She is a member of the IBM Industry Academy and is a much sought after consultant and speaker on the digital transformation of healthcare. Her expertise lies in advancing tools for consumer engagement, provider enablement and analytics for population health, cognitive computing to support a learning health system, and promoting the use of mobile to streamline workflow. 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 transformation enabled by technology.

Prior to working at IBM, Ms Murphy was CNO and Deputy National Coordinator for Programs and Policy at the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) in Washington D.C. In these roles, she led federal efforts to assist health care providers in adopting health information technology to improve care and to promote consumers’ greater understanding and use of health information technology for their own health.

Ms Murphy came to ONC with more than 25 years of health informatics experience at Aurora Health Care in Wisconsin, an integrated delivery network with 15 hospitals, 120 ambulatory centres, and over 30,000 employees. As Vice President-EHR Applications, she led their EHR program since 1995, when Aurora was one of the early adopters of health IT. She has experience with the implementation of both Epic and Cerner in the acute and ambulatory care settings.