Dr. Miller is the senior clinical leader for BJC Health, an integrated academic health system operating across the St. Louis/southern Illinois area and the Kansas City/eastern Kansas area. Working with clinical specialty leaders and academic partners Washington University School of Medicine and the University of Missouri–Kansas City, he leads the system’s care delivery model to deliver value and ensure equitable, efficient access to comprehensive services. He has continuously led the advancement of quality, patient safety, high reliability, care delivery and systemwide clinical standards, resulting in a strong year of clinical performance, operational efficiency, timely patient transfers and system growth. He helped create “Project BEST,” a 16-week cohort-based program that combines education, practical application, leadership training and teamwork to empower unit-level performance improvement and accountability across clinical operations, operational efficiency, the EHR and nurse-physician partnerships. He has also been involved with the Center for Health AI, a joint effort with WashU Medicine, also based in St. Louis, piloting tools such as AI-assisted clinical note creation, AI-assisted draft responses and voice recognition dictation to reduce charting time. He serves on the BJC Health board of directors as co-chair of the patient care committee.
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