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Myra Davis

Executive Vice President and Chief Information and Innovation Officer

Texas Children’s

Houston, TX

Ms. Davis oversees technology, innovation and data for the nation’s largest pediatric hospital system and its approximately 20,000 employees. She leads a team of over 500 across 120 locations, managing more than 77,000 endpoint devices, 30 billion rows of information, and digital platforms that serve over 4 million patient encounters. During her tenure, she has collaborated with clinical and operational executives to create an online scheduling strategy for improved and convenient access to care across all entities and service lines. As a result, Texas Children’s was one of the first pediatric and women’s hospitals to offer fully online scheduling for subspecialty practices. Ms. Davis also spearheaded the launch of intelligent process automation to assist with redundant tasks, leading to the optimization and repurposing of multiple resources across the pediatric and women’s system. Ms. Davis received the 2023 Houston CIO Leadership award and the 2019 Houston CIO of the Year award from ORBIE. Under her leadership, Texas Children’s has received Computerworld Data + Editors’ Choice Awards and Most Wired Innovator Awards from American Hospital Association for six consecutive years. CIO recognized Texas Children’s among its most innovative organizations, naming it a winner of the CIO 100 award in 2024.

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