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91 CIO / HEALTH IT Prat Vemana, chief digital officer of Kaiser Permanente, is using digital innovation to 'spearhead' patient care By Naomi Diaz P rat Vemana, chief digital officer of Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente, said digital adoption was accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic, giving the health system an advantage to use its innovation to serve patients beyond their greatest times of need, VentureBeat reported Aug. 1. ree ways Kaiser Permanente is using digital innovation to improve patient care: Eighty-four percent of Kaiser Permanente members are registered with its digital app, and 94 percent have logged in at least once in 2021, allowing the health system to collect valuable patient data to improve care. Kaiser Permanente has also moved to the cloud, created a data lake and modernized its AI infrastructure to deploy it more quickly and efficiently. Kaiser Permanente built teams that connect developers with physicians and technology tools, so that they can collaborate on end goals. n Dr. Maulik Purohit appointed chief health information officer of Lehigh Valley Health Network By Giles Bruce M aulik Purohit, MD, has been named chief health in- formation officer of Allentown, Pa.-based Lehigh Valley Health Network, Becker's learned Aug. 3. Dr. Purohit previously served as clinical innovation lead for transformation and chief medical information officer of University Hospitals in Cleveland, where he oversaw the implementation of an Epic EHR and a tech-based system to pinpoint COVID-19 hot spots. He told Becker's his new role will "leverage technolog- ical solutions combined with operational processes to improve patient care" He said he will focus on quality and safety, patient en- gagement, data analytics and artificial intelligence, population health, precision medicine, automation and device integration and remote patient monitoring. Dr. Purohit started his position June 27. n What Epic pays its top IT professionals By Naomi Diaz E pic pays software developers $77,000 to $140,000 per year based on experience and other factors, ac- cording to Payscale.com. Here are the mean average salaries Epic pays for eight IT positions: 1. Software engineer: $95,772 2. Integration engineer: $72,600 3. Technical support engineer: $71,968 4. Technical services representative: $70,318 5. Technical consultant: $67,456 6. Project manager, IT: $66,007 7. Project manager: $64,776 8. Quality assurance engineer: $51,415 n