As senior vice president and CIO of Dallas-based Children's Health System of Texas, Pamela Arora oversees health IT, health information management and biomedical engineering.
Under her leadership, the health system achieved Stage 7 of HIMSS EMR Adoption Model in 2010, the HIMSS Davies Award of Excellence in 2013 for quality and performance improvement and the AHIMA Grace Award for excellence in health information management.
Additionally, Children's was the first pediatric hospital to connect to the North Texas Accountable Healthcare Partnership HIE.
Ms. Arora previously served on the board of the Dallas Children's Advocacy Center for four years, helping the organization restructure its IT infrastructure. She also was CIO of Worcester, Mass.-based UMass Memorial Health Care.
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