Ms. Ortmann-Vincenzo joined Banner in 2024, bringing over 30 years of healthcare and privacy experience, including the last decade providing legal and compliance support to privacy, cybersecurity and data use. At Banner, she is creating a best-in-class privacy program with a multi-year roadmap to substantially expand the program beyond the core HIPAA mandate with an overall risk-based approach, including expanding privacy work to include AI, consumer privacy, tracking technology and third-party oversight. She is working to increase privacy’s reach through enhanced auditing, monitoring and communication. She has also redesigned and launched a privacy risk assessment process and implemented compliance with the HIPAA reproductive rule. Ms. Ortmann-Vincenzo supports and enables Banner Health’s digital transformation in social media and patient communications using a privacy-by-design approach, has introduced collecting and tracking privacy metrics and effectiveness, began third-party oversight by privacy, and is a founding member of Banner’s AI executive steering committee. She chaired the Missouri Bar health and hospital committee, taught privacy and information security law at Missouri University of Science and Technology, and remains active in the privacy community through speaking, education and mentoring. Ms. Ortmann-Vincenzo was also recently appointed to vice chair of the American Health Law Association’s health information technology practice group.
