Technology and Digital Leadership

With our personalized approach to recruitment and extensive network of candidates, we are uniquely positioned to match organizations with leaders best suited to their needs. We identify exceptional leaders across a variety of roles, including: 

• Chief Data Officer 
• Chief Digital Officer 
• Chief Medical Information Officer (CMIO)
• Chief Health Informatics Officer (CHIO) 
• Chief Information Officer (CIO) 
• Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) 
• Chief Nursing Informatics Officer (CNIO) 
• Chief Quality Officer (CQO) 
• Chief Research Informatics Officer (CRIO) 
• Chief Technology Officer (CTO) 
• Biomedical Informatics and Bioinformatics Leaders 

The focused Information Technology executive search team at WittKieffer has recruited CIOs and related IT positions, such as CTOs for decades and understands the breadth of challenges top IT leaders face – from supporting the ongoing pursuit of population health management initiatives and improving the patient experience in healthcare, to enabling the growth of research and increasing student success in colleges and universities. Innovation in the form of AI and RPA provide advancements that positively impact healthcare and higher education. The CIO and their senior leaders have evolved over time and become increasing important to enable the strategic goals of the organizations they serve. All of today’s trends require facilitating technologies and information systems, and exceptional leadership to guide them. 

Medical and nursing informatics leaders are driving efficiencies in hospitals and health systems, optimizing information systems and moving the healthcare industry forward in ways they hadn’t in the past. The mission and goal is the actual integration of meaningful data into the practice of medicine. This accomplishment is significant to elevating patient quality care. The field of biomedical informatics allows healthcare organizations to greatly enhance clinical care through more extensive and integrated health record databases, research centers leveraging bioinformatics, and translational research which combines clinical and biological data. Given the availability of significant data, there is huge demand for strong informatics leaders today.

WittKieffer brings decades of healthcare experience to bear on this exciting leadership challenge. Having seen how other paradigm shifts have transformed the world of healthcare, our trusted advisors help digital healthcare organizations develop a leadership team with the necessary skills to respond to volatile markets, shape effective teams, and position them to lead in this burgeoning field. 

With the explosive demand for cybersecurity, the recruitment of chief information security officers (CISOs) continues to rise, especially in vulnerable and data-rich industries like healthcare and academic medicine. According to experts, healthcare experiences more data breaches and cybersecurity incidents than any other industry. As organizations transform and migrate to digital platforms and sophisticated cyberattacks increase, an evolving threat landscape exists. Executive-level CISOs with deep information security expertise and business risk acumen are imperative.

Chief data and analytics officers are providing organizations with metrics, insight and predictive capabilities never before possible. In healthcare, the primary focus of analytics is to enhance and improve patient quality care. Organizations view data as a strategic asset and critical necessity for making data-driven health decisions. In addition, data analytics provides actionable information for benchmarking strategic priorities and informed decision-making in higher education. 

Many healthcare organizations and academic medical centers are creating robust integrated analytics functions that can provide a single source of truth to senior leaders. These functions can span a variety of domains including clinical, financial and business operations data with the goal of providing prescriptive and predictive analytics. These roles frequently include oversight of the technology platforms responsible for providing advanced capabilities. Health systems are still trying to determine the best strategy and governance structure for analytics – the key is to hire experienced and collaborative leaders with strong analytics and data backgrounds.