Mount Sinai Health System this week announced that it has named Lisa S. Stump to be its new chief digital information officer, as well as the dean for information technology at Mount Sinai's Icahn School of Medicine.

WHY IT MATTERS
Stump will "serve as a key bridge between the clinical, educational, and research missions" of the New York City-based health system and academic medical center, leaders there said, and will be tasked with bolstering digital strategy.

Her first task will be the planning and development of a "comprehensive enterprise digital ecosystem," according to Mount Sinai, with the goals of improving collaboration between providers and researchers and working to integrate new technologies to enable value creation and drive growth.

She will be in charge of IT, cybersecurity and privacy, technology governance, application portfolio management, data democratization, digital experience, analytics, and artificial intelligence, health system officials say.

She'll also help chart a five-year strategic plan for Mount Sinai, and be in charge of executing on the technology components of that vision.

Stump has a long resume of IT and clinical informatics experience. Most recently, she served as chief information and digital transformation officer at Yale New Haven Health and Yale Medicine.

She had worked at Yale since 1996, where her many roles included director of pharmacy, administrative director in clinical informatics and vice president of the Epic Project, where she led the consolidation of multiple electronic health record and revenue cycle systems onto a single platform.

Stump also has deep experience integrating disparate platforms in enterprise-resource planning, bed management, radiology information, infection control, laboratory information and blood bank. She also helped launch the InSight Tele-ICU platform at Yale.

She graduated from the University of Connecticut School of Pharmacy and the Ohio State University College of Pharmacy with a master's degree in pharmacy administration.

THE LARGER TREND
Mount Sinai has always been a leader in health IT and informatics, and in recent months it has been pursuing some ambitious plans. 

Earlier this year, Healthcare IT News spoke with Dr. Bruce Darrow, the health system's chief medical information officer – he had also been serving as interim CDIO – for a two-part series about its AI and machine learning initiatives.

In the first, he described how AI-powered apps are transforming detection and treatment. In the second, he discussed near-term plans for automation, with the goal of having all Mount Sinai IT systems containing some AI within the next five years.

We also showed recently how Mount Sinai was able to reduce its 10-year IT capital costs by migrating to the cloud and consolidating data centers and servers.

ON THE RECORD
"I am thrilled to join the Mount Sinai Health System as the Chief Digital Information Officer and Dean for Information Technology," said Stump in a statement. "Together with the talented team at Mount Sinai, renowned for its commitment to patient care and clinical excellence, I look forward to harnessing cutting-edge technology and innovative strategies to shape the future of healthcare and make a meaningful impact on the lives and communities we serve."

"Lisa's deep expertise in informatics in the clinical and academic environments, in partnership with our amazing clinical, research and education leaders, will propel Mount Sinai to the cutting edge in digital innovation," added Mount Sinai Health System CEO Dr. Brendan Carr.

Mike Miliard is executive editor of Healthcare IT News
Email the writer: mike.miliard@himssmedia.com
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