Mr. Chaudhry brings more than 20 years of healthcare technology experience to his role at SSM Health, where he is responsible for the direction and oversight of IT, digital patient engagement, clinical informatics, analytics, facilities, real estate operations and physical security across the health system. A certified healthcare CIO and digital health executive, he has been recognized by Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society as a “Top Future-50 Leader” for his digital transformation work, and currently serves on the boards of the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives and Graphite Health, and as an adjunct faculty member at Georgetown University’s School of Health. Mr. Chaudhry joined SSM Health in 2024 as the organization’s first chief digital officer before stepping into his expanded role, bringing prior leadership experience from Annapolis, Md.-based Luminis Health, Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins Medicine, Pittsburgh-based UPMC, McKesson and international organizations in the United Arab Emirates. A signature initiative under his leadership is “Project One,” a comprehensive effort to modernize SSM Health’s Epic EHR foundations while streamlining and standardizing workflows to reduce care variation, eliminate duplicative documentation, and decrease cognitive and administrative burden on providers and team members. SSM Health has earned CHIME’s “HealthCare’s Most Wired” recognition for 12 consecutive years, a testament to the enduring strength of the technology foundation Mr. Chaudhry continues to build upon.
