Dr. Hatfield is the associate CMIO at UCI Health and a board-certified, fellowship-trained maternal-fetal medicine physician who partners with physician, nursing and operational leaders across inpatient service lines to translate frontline needs into safer, more efficient workflows. She was at the forefront of a new EHR implementation across six hospitals, leading a full-scale, EHR-centric unified communications transformation that streamlined provider and nursing communication through secure messaging, EHR-integrated phone calling, code and critical result notifications and nurse call system integration. Dr. Hatfield implemented an electronic surgical consent platform that achieved more than 90% adoption and championed end-to-end integration of an inpatient telehealth module enabling cross-site subspecialty consultation. She is also an associate professor in the division of maternal-fetal medicine and the department of obstetrics and gynecology at the UC Irvine School of Medicine. UCI Health earned the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives level 7 “Most Wired” recognition in 2023, a Leapfrog hospital safety grade of “A” in spring 2024, and was recognized on multiple Newsweek and U.S. News & World Report rankings.
