Atefeh “Atti” Riazi will leave her position as chief information officer at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in Manhattan, after being hired by Hearst for the same role.
WHY IT IMPORTANT
Riazi joined MSK in February 2020, with a mission to develop a strategic, enterprise-wide IT plan and integrate digital resources across the organization.
Over the past three years, she has led the business reorganization and new IT implementation across the healthcare system, managing network infrastructure, applications, systems security, integration and analytics to help improve the research team, clinical and administrative of the cancer center.
Prior to joining MSK, Riazi documented three decades of expertise dealing with other digital transformation jobs at organizations including the United Nations, where she served as IT director and assistant secretary general. since 2013.
Prior to that, she served as CIO at the New York City Housing Authority, Ogilvy & Mather, New York City Transit, and others.
At Hearst, Riazi will begin November 1 and report to Chief Technology Officer Mahendra Durai, senior vice president and chief technology officer.
He said in a statement: “Atti’s leadership, experience and success across a wide range of industries, both in the private and public sectors, will be a great addition to his organisation. we.
TREND TO BIGGER WOMAN
Just last week, IT news about healthcare reported how Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center is working with UPMC’s Realyze Intelligence division to mine real-world patient data in its electronic health records.
MSK Innovation Hub will work with Realyze to apply natural language understanding to gain insights from unstructured text notes in EHRs faster and more efficiently – enabling useful information to help oncologists and other clinicians make more informed and timely treatment decisions.
ON PROFILE
“I am inspired by Hearst’s stirring mission and will do all I can to leverage technology for transformative results on behalf of the group, its customers and consumers,” said Riazi. company”. “After meeting some new colleagues, I knew right away that I was going to be part of something special – an organization with a deep culture built on customer satisfaction, innovation and employee core values.”
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