30 Healthcare IT Influencers to Follow in 2025 - healthcare it influencers
30 Healthcare IT Influencers to Follow in 2025

Healthcare IT leaders and researchers are increasingly influential as organizations adopt artificial intelligence to manage risk and improve resilience. A new list from HealthTech highlights 30 professionals driving innovation, equity, and change in the healthcare space, focusing on AI, data, digital health, and security. Aashima Gupta serves as the global director of healthcare solutions for Google Cloud, leveraging cloud and AI solutions to accelerate digital transformation. Gupta is also a member of the HIMSS board of advisers and posts updates on how AI can improve healthcare delivery. [1] John Brownstein, who holds titles including chief innovation officer at Boston Children’s Hospital and professor at Harvard Medical School, explores digital health and infectious disease news. His work looks at how AI can improve care delivery and disease management.

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Nigam Shah, the chief data scientist at Stanford Health Care and associate dean at Stanford Medicine, focuses on improving care using existing health data from sources such as EHRs and wearables. At Stanford Health Care, he uses AI and data science to advance disease insights and improve patient outcomes. Dr. Rebecca Mishuris, the chief medical information officer at Mass General Brigham, conducts research on the integration of health IT in care delivery. Her social media posts often focus on how AI is used in healthcare. At UCSF Health, Dr. Sara Murray serves as the organization’s chief health AI officer, vice president and associate chief medical information officer for inpatient care. She is also an associate professor of clinical medicine for the University of California, San Francisco. In addition to ensuring the deployment of impactful and ethical AI and the development of machine learning models, she leads strategy for informatics, digital health and data science at the organization. Tom Andriola is the vice chancellor for information, technology and data as well as the chief digital officer at the University of California, Irvine. He leads the strategic use of data and technology for UC Irvine in its role as a research university and healthcare provider. Andriola hosts the Digital Squared podcast, which explores how healthcare is evolving in an increasingly digital world. Dr. Yasir Tarabichi is a clinical informatics leader with many roles across di

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