Hospital procurement isn't broken. The vendors are.
Dr. Aisha Patel · 8 min
About Dr.
Dr. Aisha Patel is Chief Information Officer at Bayview Health System and the author of The Operator, Rounds' weekly column on hospital IT, vendor management, and the friction of moving software through a 17-hospital system.
Before Bayview Health System she led digital transformation at Pinehaven Health and ran the EHR program at Cedarbridge Health. She is a board-certified internist and practiced hospital medicine for nine years.
Aisha sits on the a fictional health IT association Policy Steering Committee and advises the a health IT advisory group on interoperability rule-making.
Highlights
- CIO of the Year, a fictional health IT association (2023).
- Led $180M Careweave consolidation across 17 Bayview Health System hospitals.
- Advisor, a health IT advisory group Health IT Advisory Committee.
- Board-certified internist (a fictional medical certification board).
Experience
- 2021 — PresentChief Information OfficerBayview Health System
Owns IT strategy across 17 hospitals and 270+ care sites.
- 2017 — 2021VP, Digital TransformationPinehaven Health
- 2013 — 2017Director, EHR ProgramCedarbridge Health
- 2004 — 2013HospitalistWesthaven Hospital
