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Laura Wilt

Executive Vice President and Chief Digital Officer

Sutter Health

Sacramento, CA

Ms. Wilt leads Sutter Health’s enterprise digital strategy across technology, innovation, digital patient experience, and data and analytics. Under her leadership, the system is advancing a systemwide focus on making work easier for clinicians and staff while expanding digital access and engagement for patients. In 2025, her teams saved more than 1.6 million hours through automation, AI and workflow simplification, including ambient clinical documentation, automated registration and administrative optimization. Since launch, system clinicians have used ambient documentation to generate more than 2 million notes, reducing the time providers spend on documentation by 27%. Ms. Wilt also oversees digital care delivery initiatives that extend care beyond traditional settings, including “Sutter Sync,” a digital care model that has enrolled more than 5,100 patients and is expanding to support additional chronic conditions. She leads efforts to standardize and integrate digital capabilities through Sutter’s “ONE Platform,” while accelerating adoption of applied AI tools such as “SutterIQ,” which is now used by more than 21,000 employees. Her work supports Sutter’s strategy to improve access, clinician experience and operational efficiency at scale.

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