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Sophy Lu

Senior Vice President and CIO

Northwell Health

New Hyde Park, NY

Ms. Lu is responsible for health IT at Northwell, deploying technology and business strategies as well as overseeing technology purchases, establishing IT policies, and ensuring security and privacy of technology systems. Her role impacts more than 1,900 team members and 3,000 solutions. Ms. Lu has spearheaded various application strategies at Northwell, including the rollout of ICD-10, the initiation of the digital transformation of patient engagement and access, digitization of imaging, EHR optimizations, technology solutions for the Covid-19 pandemic response, recovery and vaccine efforts, and the transformation of Northwell’s EHR to Epic. She has been with Northwell Health since 2010 and has been in her current role since April of 2022. Upon assuming the role, Ms. Lu became the nation’s first Asian American and Pacific Islander hospital system CIO.

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