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45

AMDIS Roundtable: Next Gen Data Governance

Data Governance and Patient Safety in the AI Era brings together three nationally recognized informatics leaders to explore why data governance has become foundational to safe, effective healthcare. Featuring Dr. John Lee, President of HIT Advisors and former CMO at Allegheny Health, Dr. Howard Landa, CMIO at Adventist Health, and Dr. Mark Pierce, former CMIO at Parkview Health System, this discussion looks at how unclear data definitions, siloed metrics, and poorly governed information directly affect clinical decisions, trust in AI tools, and patient outcomes. If you want a clear, practical view of how data design influences real care delivery, this episode delivers it.

EPISODE GUESTS

Howard Landa

Adventist Health

Chief Medical Informatics Officer

Dr. Howard Landa is a seasoned executive and leader in the field of medical informatics, currently serving as the Chief Medical Informatics Officer (CMIO) at Adventist Health. He began his medical career in 1990 as a pediatric urologist at Loma Linda University before transitioning to healthcare information technology in 1996, driven by a philosophy that technology should be leveraged to enhance patient care, operational efficiency, and clinician satisfaction. Over his distinguished career, Dr. Landa has held several high-level administrative roles, including Vice President of Clinical Informatics and EHR at Sutter Health, CMIO at Alameda Health System, and CMIO for Kaiser Permanente’s Hawaii Region. An active figure in the broader health IT community, he has spent over two years as the Chairman of the Association of Medical Directors of Information Systems (AMDIS), has been heavily involved with HIMSS, and earned his Doctor of Medicine from Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School followed by training at the Baylor College of Medicine.

John Lee

HIT Peak Advisors

The Epic Whisperer

Dr. John Lee is a practicing emergency medicine physician, health IT executive, and specialized consultant known as the "Epic Whisperer," who bridges the gap between high-level clinical strategy and hands-on technical execution within Epic EHR ecosystems. As the Founder of HIT Peak Advisors, he leverages his unique dual background as a frontline clinician and an Epic architect to help health tech startups navigate complex integrations and assist healthcare organizations with workflow and analytics optimization. Dr. Lee's distinguished career includes nearly three decades of clinical practice at Edward Hospital, alongside extensive administrative leadership roles as the Chief Medical Information Officer (CMIO) for Edward-Elmhurst Health and Senior Vice President and CMIO for the Allegheny Health Network. Currently balancing his clinical duties at Edward-Elmhurst with a role as a Clinical Informatics Specialist for The MetroHealth System, he specializes in translating complex data structures like SmartData and SQL into practical, high-yield solutions that align with actual clinical realities.

Mark Pierce

Artisight

Chief Medical Officer

Dr. Mark Pierce, MD, FAAP, is a veteran physician executive and triple-board-certified clinical informaticist with over 25 years of leadership at the intersection of medicine and advanced technology. He currently serves as the Chief Medical Officer at **Artisight**, where he directs the clinical strategy for an AI and computer vision platform designed to optimize OR coordination, virtual nursing, and bed capacity intelligence across health systems. Prior to his executive role in clinical AI, Dr. Pierce spent over 23 years at **Parkview Health** in Indiana, where he served concurrently as an Internal Medicine-Pediatrics physician and a pioneering technology leader. As Parkview’s Physician Chief Information Officer and long-standing Chief Medical Information Officer (CMIO), he spearheaded the enterprise-wide Epic EHR implementation, built advanced business intelligence and predictive modeling teams, and established the health system's first formal AI governance program. Dr. Pierce's diverse background also includes early-career pharmaceutical discovery as an Associate Research Scientist at Eli Lilly and founding Interventional Informatics LLC, a specialized clinical health IT consulting practice.
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