Ms. Martinez oversees key partnerships and strategic plans to optimize clinical care across the largest health care system in New Jersey, leading the Nursing and Allied Health Collaborative of more than 650 clinical operation members responsible for assessing and prioritizing all clinically related changes across the system. Over the past year, Ms. Martinez helped spearhead integration of Epic’s AI cognitive computing early warning system for patient deterioration across the system, contributing to an estimated 500 lives saved since April 2023. She also addressed a systemwide IV fluid shortage crisis, establishing data-driven procedures that produced a sustained 40% reduction in overall product usage, with non-trauma facilities reporting closer to a 70% reduction, and enabled the system to postpone less than 1% of all procedures. Her work with the Nursing and Allied Health Collaborative in partnership with the clinical analyst team has resulted in more than 1,500 evidence-based clinical optimizations to the EHR in the past year alone. RWJBarnabas Health achieved Epic “Gold Stars” recognition faster than any other customer in Epic’s 43-year history.
