Ms. Hansen, a board-certified bedside nurse for nearly a decade who successfully transitioned to hospital-based IT, oversees development, implementation and optimization of Baptist Health’s application landscape as an integral member of the IT leadership team. Earlier this year, Ms. Hansen was instrumental in helping Baptist Health achieve “summa cum laude” status in Epic’s “Version 9 Honor Roll Grant Program” across nine key areas, including provider and nurse usability, financial operations and population health. She also played a key role in Baptist Health’s enterprise upgrade and gradual nationwide rollout of MyChart Central, a feature allowing patients to access all MyChart accounts from different healthcare providers using one set of credentials. Baptist Health has earned the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives Digital Health “Most Wired” level 10 designation in 2024 and 2025, Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society “Community Care Outcomes Maturity Model” stage 7 validation in 2024 and recognition as a “Best Places to Work in IT” organization by Foundry’s Computerworld.
