Los Angeles-based Cedars-Sinai has made key leadership appointments to its clinical informatics team.
The system promoted Shaun Miller, MD, chief medical informatics officer, into the newly created role of chief health informatics officer. He will be responsible for all clinical informatics and enterprise information services training, according to the health system. He maintains his position overseeing clinical informatics fellowship training and will work with the broader senior leadership team to expand digital technology systemwide.
Dr. Miller was instrumental in the health system's initiatives to grow virtual care during the COVID-19 pandemic and implement telehealth solutions. He has also expanded artificial intelligence in the clinical setting and introduced AI scribes.
Cedars-Sinai also announced Lisa Stephenson, MSN, RN, as its new chief nursing informatics officer, responsible for clinical operations optimization liaison teams and enterprise information systems training. She has more than 20 years of nursing experience and worked with nursing informatics leaders at Mayo Clinic and Houston Methodist.
Ms. Stephenson will play a critical role in driving informatics for both the inpatient and outpatient settings, and support innovation projects.
Cedars-Sinai also named a new chief medical informatics officer to helm the physician informatics team: Yaron Elad, MD, the system's current clinical chief of the department of cardiology in the Smidt Heart Institute. He has also served as associate CMIO since 2022 and is an Epic-certified physician builder.
Dr. Elad has more recently focused his informatics work on artificial intelligence, including ambient scribes.