Ms. Reyes leads informatics strategy at Children’s Hospital Colorado, ensuring clinical information systems support the institution’s mission and strategic priorities while partnering closely with the CMIO, CIO and chief nurse executive to integrate technology solutions into clinical workflows and nursing practice. Ms. Reyes provides direct management over nine nurse informaticists and one pharmacy informaticist, serves as executive sponsor of the clinical informatics practice council and chairs the EHR governance committee. Her current quality improvement focus centers on leveraging EHR-based workload and nurse assignment tools to enhance patient assignments and staffing decisions. Before assuming her current role, Ms. Reyes spent nine years in progressive leadership positions at the hospital, including senior application manager, interim director of clinical applications and application manager. In the senior application manager role, she oversaw EHR clinical modules and more than 100 clinical application analysts, established an EHR optimization strategy in partnership with executive leadership, and mentored clinical application managers, supervisors and analysts. Children’s Hospital Colorado has been recognized as the No. 1 children’s hospital in the Rocky Mountain region by U.S. News & World Report for multiple consecutive years and was the first pediatric health system to achieve 10 gold stars in Epic’s “Gold Stars” program.
