Mr. Szczuka serves as the first chief digital officer in Bon Secours Mercy Health’s history. Concurrently, he serves as president of its digital investing arm, Accrete Health Partners, making him responsible for both defining the ministry’s digital transformation agenda and building the venture infrastructure to sustain it. He is distinguished by his emphasis on execution, governance and accountability, establishing clear structures that connect executive sponsorship, operational ownership and defined success measures that enable the organization to move beyond pilot-driven innovation toward durable, scalable digital capabilities. Drawing on his background as co-founder of Brighter, a digital health platform later acquired by Cigna, and his tenure as chief digital officer at Cigna, Mr. Szczuka brings an experimentation-driven startup perspective that accelerates how Bon Secours Mercy Health evaluates and adopts new technologies. Under his leadership of Accrete Health Partners, the portfolio has grown to 10 digital health companies that now touch every operating team across the health system, with multiple new investments, a successful exit and six new digital projects launched within the past year alone. His approach consistently aligns digital initiatives with clearly identified clinical and operational needs rather than pursuing standalone technology deployments, supporting the expansion of virtual care, digital patient access, and data-driven decision-making across diverse markets and care settings. With his help, Bon Secours Mercy Health earned College of Healthcare Information Management Executives’s “Digital Health Most Wired Level 10” designation in 2025, the highest recognition available.
