Ms. Brutschea brings more than 36 years of progressive leadership experience in healthcare information systems to St. Luke’s University Health Network, overseeing a broad application portfolio and multimillion-dollar budgets across both for-profit and nonprofit environments. Ms. Brutschea led the health system’s successful transition of hospital and ambulatory sites to a new EHR system and subsequently pioneered one of the first cloud migrations for EHR, which now supports more than 80 cloud-based applications. She also spearheaded the deployment of Teams telephony with a bring-your-own-device strategy, and launched a digital front door that centralizes patient access for scheduling, medical triage and medication refills. St. Luke’s was recognized in 2025 by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services as one of the nation’s three highest-performing health systems for quality, safety and patient experience, and is the only Lehigh Valley, Pa.-based system to earn Medicare’s 5-star ratings for quality, efficiency and patient satisfaction. The network has earned straight A’s from Leapfrog across all of its acute care hospitals and has received “100 Top Hospital” designations from Premier for 11 consecutive years. Beyond the health system, Ms. Brutschea has served as president of the Delaware Valley Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society chapter and co-chaired a “Girls in STEM” program connecting local high school students to careers in healthcare IT.
