Ann Boyer, MD is an Associate Partner in Digital & Technology Transformation at Chartis. She brings over 17 years of healthcare experience as a pediatric hospitalist, clinical informaticist, and physician executive. She has expertise in leading organizational change and developing high performing clinical informatics teams. Ann has leveraged clinical informatics to optimize workflows and improve care delivery through EHR optimization in academic children’s hospitals and safety net health systems.
Prior to joining Chartis, Ann served as Chief Medical Information Officer (CMIO) for Denver Health and Hospital Authority, an organization with a diverse portfolio including a level one trauma center, specialty outpatient center, school-based health clinics, and federally qualified health centers serving the Denver’s most at risk populations. As CMIO she was responsible for clinical IT strategy and informatics team development supporting the academic, clinical, and research needs of 1000+ employed providers. She oversaw clinician wellbeing, EHR and workflow optimization, downtime preparedness, and value-based care initiatives over her tenure, leading to Epic Gold Stars 10 recognition and national recognition for health equity initiatives. Prior to Denver Health, Ann was Associate CMIO for Children’s Hospital Colorado where she grew a recognized informatics program, governance processes, and extensive EHR optimization in partnership with Epic. Most notably she led deployment of documentation improvement and patient handoff tools, maximized system efficiency through patient flow initiatives, leveraged technology to drive initiatives for high value care, and led Epic refuel initiatives to achieve HIMSS Stage 6 and 7 Certifications.
In addition, Ann served on the Colorado eHealth Commission, creating the “Colorado Health IT Roadmap” and advising on initiatives to advance health IT and interoperability. Ann has more recently advised on Epic’s committee for Digital Health Policy related to federal rule impacts on providers and healthcare organizations. She has spoken at national and state health IT conferences on a range of topics from IT Governance and Downtime Preparedness to Race, Ethnicity, and Language data accuracy as a foundation to improving Health Equity.
Ann completed her residency in Pediatrics at University of Colorado. She received her medical degree from Tulane University where she concurrently completed her Master of Public Health. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in biology and Spanish from Hope College where she graduated with honors. She is board certified in Pediatrics through the American Board of Pediatrics and in Clinical Informatics through the American Board of Preventive Medicine. Ann also has maintained Epic Clinical Documentation certification since 2007.
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