Forbes named two health system executives to its sixth annual CIO Next List for 2025.
To find worthy candidates, the publication accepted nominations and conferred with experts and trade organizations. Forbes narrowed down the hundreds of contenders to 50 who “exemplify excellence” in a C-level technology role across sectors.
The two from health systems are, according to the Nov. 18 story:
— Edwina Bhaskaran, MSN, RN. Chief Clinical Systems and Informatics Officer of Mayo Clinic (Rochester, Minn.): Ms. Bhaskaran helms a team of more than 1,000 individuals across departments including operations and information management. Under her direction, IT teams executed 92% of 24,000 system change requests within 90 days, a health system record. She has also led Mayo’s deployment of generative AI that helps make faster decisions for over 3 million patients and overhauled clinical systems to process billions of data points a day.
— Rishi Tripathi. Senior Vice President and Chief Technology and Information Security Officer of Mount Sinai Health System (New York City): Mr. Tripathi has overseen a $140 million modernization initiative across the $11 billion health system in the last two years, cutting Mount Sinai’s security vulnerabilities by 60% and incident response times by 45%. He also helped drive $4 million in annual savings by launching AI-automated workflows, consolidating half the organization’s data centers and sunsetting more than 200 legacy systems.
