Becker's Hospital Review reported the following health IT executive moves affecting hospitals, companies and federal agencies so far this year.
- Cleveland Clinic appointed Lara Jehi, MD, as its first chief research information officer.
- Atlanta-based Piedmont Healthcare selected Lacy Knight, MD, to serve as chief health information officer.
- Cedar, a patient payment and engagement platform, named Hassan Sultan as its chief technology officer.
- Indianapolis-based Indiana University Health appointed Tim Tarnowski as senior vice president and CIO.
- Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City tapped Atefeh "Atti" Riazi as its CIO.
- Minneapolis-based Children's Minnesota named Dave Lundal CIO and vice president of IT services.
- Johnson City, Tenn.-based Ballad Health tapped Pam Austin as senior vice president and CIO.
- Charleston-based Medical University of South Carolina appointed Mark McMath as enterprise CIO of information solutions.
- Orlando (Fla.) Health named Marshall Denkinger, MD, its new chief medical information and IT/clinical engineering innovation officer.
- Cleveland Clinic tapped Matthew Kull to serve as CIO.
- Thomas Gregorio became the chief innovation and technology officer for University Hospital in Newark, N.J.
- Livonia, Mich.-based Trinity Health named Eileen Matzek regional CIO for Loyola Medicine, a three-hospital system based in Maywood, Ill.
- Sanjeev Aggarwal, MD, was tapped to serve as Southfield, Mich.-based Beaumont Health's first clinical innovation officer.
- West Orange, N.J.-based RWJBarnabas Health named Paul Alexander, MD, senior vice president and chief transformation officer.
- Sarah Rush, MD, chief medical information officer of Akron Children's, was named the Ohio hospital's first endowed chair in telehealth thanks to a recent $1 million donation.
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