'I am honored to move into this role and look forward to working with Mount Sinai leadership to enable digital transformation and innovation to support our mission,' said Myers in a statement. On June 4, Intermountain Healthcare announced that Ryan Smith will take over as vice president and chief information officer following the retirement of Intermountain's longtime CIO, Marc Probst. Myers is the second high-profile CIO hire at a major U.S. The health system also launched a new Institute for Digital Health in 2019. She is also a fellow at HIMSS (the parent company of Healthcare IT News).Īmong Mount Sinai's recent technology innovations, it has been using Google Nest to monitor inpatients, streaming live footage from nursing stations to reduce in-person contact and the risk of COVID-19. She holds an executive master of public health degree from Columbia University and an executive chief information security officer certification from Carnegie Mellon. Mount Sinai officials note that on her watch the health system was awarded a HIMSS Enterprise Davies Award of Excellence, and that two of its hospitals have achieved Stage 7 on the HIMSS EMR Adoption Model.īefore her time at Mount Sinai, Myers held positions at CapGemini and Ernst and Young, and worked for Cerner in Australia. Over the past 16 years, she has helped lead a major Epic implementation, the transition to ICD-10 and the launch of an IT program management office. She began at Mount Sinai as a director of IT in 2004. Myers most recently served as senior vice president for technology. In that role, Myers will be tasked with technology transformation efforts across the health system – working toward better strategic alignment and more agility to support clinical care, research and education, according to Mount Sinai. Myers most recently served as SVP for technology. Mount Sinai Health System has promoted Kristin Myers, a longtime IT leader at the health system, to executive vice president, chief information officer and dean for information technology.

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