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70 CIO / HEALTH IT Meet the CIOs of US News' top 10 hospitals By Naomi Diaz T he role of CIO became vital during the pandemic as hospital officials looked to them to provide their prowess of data knowledge to treat an influx of patients. Below are brief biogra- phies of the CIOs at the hospitals that took the top 10 spots in U.S. News & World Re- port's 2021-22 best hospital rankings. 1. Cris Ross, Mayo Clinic (Rochester, Minn.). Mr. Ross has been with Mayo Clin- ic since 2012. He also serves as director of HIMSS, a nonprofit organization that works to improve health equity. At Mayo Clinic, Mr. Ross helped reimagine IT strategy, lead an enterprise-wide EHR convergence program, developed partnerships and initiated major innovation programs in data, analytics and machine learning. 2. Matthew Kull, Cleveland Clinic. Mr. Kull was appointed CIO of Cleveland Clinic in 2020. He oversees the clinic's information technology strategy, clinical partners and caregivers. Before he served as CIO, Mr. Kull was associate CIO of the information tech- nology division of Cleveland Clinic. 3. Ellen Pollack, UCLA Hospital System (Los Angeles). Ms. Pollack is the interim CIO of UCLA Hospital System. She also serves as the chief nursing informatics officer. She has been with UCLA Hospital System since 1993. 4. Dean Zarriello, Johns Hopkins Hos- pital (Baltimore). Mr. Zarriello has been with John Hopkins since 1997. He is in charge of data centers, networking, tele- communications, cloud computing, client technology services, servers, storage, col- laboration, messaging and directory ser- vices, help desk operations and the infra- structure project management office. He was involved in all six Epic integration projects for John Hopkins. 5. Chris Coburn, Massachusetts General Brigham (Boston). Mr. Coburn is in charge of a 125-person team that commercializes the capabilities and discoveries of Massachu- setts General Brigham. Under his leadership, commercial revenue exceeds $130 million annually. Mr. Coburn and his team are also responsible for managing a $200 million venture fund. 6. Daniel Barchi, NewYork-Presbyteri- an (New York City). Mr. Barchi, who is also the health system's group senior vice president, oversees strategic vision and management of information technolo- gy, innovation, analytics, artificial intel- ligence, telemedicine and pharmacy for NewYork-Presbyterian. Before arriving at NewYork-Presbyterian, he served as senior vice president and CIO of Yale New Haven (Conn.) Health System and Yale School of Medicine in New Haven. 7. Craig Kwiakowski, PharmD, Cedars- Sinai (Los Angeles). Dr. Kwiakowski is also the health system's interim senior vice president of enterprise information services. He is in charge of clinical technol- ogy and information technology strategy. He is a past recipient of the Cedars-Sinai President's Award. 8. Nader Mherabi, NYU Langone (New York City). Mr. Mherabi is also the exec- utive vice president and vice dean of the health system. He is in charge of all infor- mation technology for NYU Langone. He previously served as vice president for IT product solutions and chief technology officer for NYU Langone. 9. Joe Bengfort, UCSF Health Medical Cen- ter (San Francisco). Mr. Bengfort is also the senior vice president of information technol- ogy and associate vice chancellor at UCSF. He is in charge of UCSF Health, research, education, administration and strategic information technology initiatives at the University of California health system. He joined UCSF in 2011. 10. Doug King, Northwestern Medicine (Chicago). Mr. King is also senior vice president of information services North- western Medicine and Northwestern Uni- versity's Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago. He is in charge of providing strate- gic leadership for technology initiatives. He also helps lead the Northwestern Medicine Innovation Center. n Cedars-Sinai, NYU and other systems piloting Epic EHR tools By Katie Adams H ere are nine hospitals and health systems that piloted Epic EHR tools to improve cancer care, identify human trafficking victims and more between Jan. 12 and Feb. 12. Six health systems began using an electronic symptom management tool they designed in Epic to report cancer treatment and postoperative symp- toms on more than 5,600 patients. The following health systems made up the team that created the tool: Memphis, Tenn.-based Baptist Memorial Hospi- tal; Boston-based Dana-Farber Cancer Institute; Lebanon, N.H.-based Dart- mouth-Hitchcock Medical Center; Providence, R.I.-based Lifespan Cancer In- stitute; Portland-based Maine Medical Center; and Morgantown-based West Virginia University Cancer Center. The neonatal intensive care unit at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Ange- les began using an algorithm in its Epic EHR to calculate a score that displays infants' weight change from birth in a time series visualization. The hospital said the tool's implementation has improved premature infants' growth, and the automated score has saved nurses time. Detroit-based Henry Ford Health System began using a tool in its Epic EHR to help staff identify victims of human trafficking. In its first two years implement- ing the program, the system identified 39 victims. Robbinsdale, Minn.-based North Memorial Hospital began using a tool in its Epic EHR to predict, identify and guide postpartum hemorrhages, resulting in a 40 percent reduction. The hospital also used its Epic EHR to create a quantita- tive blood loss calculator to improve response time for hemorrhages. n