As the CNIO for RWJBarnabas Health, Ms. Martinez oversees key partnerships and essential strategic plans to optimize clinical care. She is tasked with developing and implementing nursing protocols and alert systems, as well as facilitating partnerships to transform clinical practice. By developing structures, tools and processes that give voice to the customer, Ms. Martinez ensures that customers are the driving force behind institutional change throughout the health system. She leads the nursing and allied health collaborative with over 650 clinical operation members and co-chairs the system’s clinical data governance workgroup. In response to national staffing shortages, Ms. Martinez and the nursing executive team updated the nursing care model to leverage the role of the licensed practical nurse and ensure technology support. In the past year, she has facilitated the design of EHR-based alerts and rules to drive adherence to the system clostridiodes difficile protocols, reducing the system infection rates by 49%. She also implemented Epic EHR from Allscripts and Cerner across the organization to optimize evidence-based patient centered care. In addition, she was able to reduce nonactionable clinician alerts within the EHR by 10 in 2024.
