Pamela Arora, CIO of Dallas-based Children's Health, is the 2016 John E. Gall, Jr. CIO of the Year. The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives and Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society sponsor the award.
The award honors healthcare IT executives "who have made significant contributions to their organization and demonstrated innovative leadership through effective use of technology."
Ms. Arora has played an instrumental part in furthering Children's Health's information sharing. Children's Health has entered into partnerships with regional health information exchange programs and it became one of the first health systems in the nation to give parents unrestricted access to their children's health information.
Ms. Arora has been a HIMSS member for 13 years, and she has served on both the CHIME and the Health Information Trust Alliance board of trustees.