Ms. Malinowski is a registered nurse with more than 14 years of bedside experience and more than 15 years in IT, bringing a dual clinical-technical perspective to her leadership of IT and clinical engineering across acute care hospitals, ambulatory sites and physician offices at Orlando Health. Ms. Malinowski led efforts to reduce burdensome nursing documentation across the system, achieving an 18% reduction in sections, a 39% reduction in questions and a 31% reduction in clicks, thus saving nurses an average of 15 minutes and 30 seconds per admission. In 2024, she assumed the role of regional IT leader for Orlando Health’s integration of newly acquired hospitals on Florida’s Space Coast, overseeing the implementation of Epic and more than 70 third-party systems across two hospitals, outpatient ambulatory locations and physician practices. Her team completed the physician office Epic go-live in six months and the hospital implementations in nine months. She also founded Orlando Health’s nursing informatics program in 2019 and has served as the IT clinical lead for virtual nursing, virtual sitting, documentation reduction and IV pump integration across 10 hospitals, freestanding emergency departments and infusion centers. Orlando Health has earned the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives “Most Wired” level 10 recognition in both acute and ambulatory categories, Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society “Stage 7” designation and Epic “Gold Stars” level 10.
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Becker's Recognition
Kim Malinowskihas been named a Becker's honoree on the lists below.
2026 Winner

