Dr. Collins has served as CNIO at UK HealthCare since 2023, acting as the IT advisor to the chief nurse executive while overseeing the clinical informatics and IT education departments. Dr. Collins leads the continued evaluation of existing and emerging technology against proven standards in functionality, design, continuity of care and workflow efficiency, and plans, develops and implements strategies to enhance service delivery while assuring efficiency and safety across nursing practice and operations at UK HealthCare and its affiliates. She brings a distinctive clinical foundation to her informatics leadership. Before becoming CNIO, she spent 12 years as a pediatric critical care nurse in the pediatric ICU, then served as inpatient nursing workflow lead for an Epic implementation and as a nursing informaticist in IT for four years. Her trajectory from bedside to workflow lead to enterprise informatics leadership gave Dr. Collins a firsthand understanding of how technology decisions translate to real-world clinical impact.
