Public Biography
Judy Murphy is a pioneer and thought leader in the national and international health and nursing informatics communities. She served as Chief Nursing Officer for IBM Global Healthcare and as Deputy National Coordinator for Programs and Policy in the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) in the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services. In these roles, she led efforts to assist health care providers in adopting health information technology and to promote consumers’ greater understanding and use of health information technology for their own health. Previously, she spent 36 years at Aurora Health Care in Wisconsin, 26 of those years in clinical informatics. As Vice President-Applications, she led their electronic health record program since 1995, when Aurora was an early adopter of health IT.
She has published over 100 articles and book chapters, and has done hundreds of presentations nationally and internationally. She received an Honorary Doctor of Nursing degree from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in 2022. Judy served on the AMIA and HIMSS Board of Directors, is a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing and the American College of Medical Informatics, and is a HIMSS Lifetime Fellow. She has received numerous awards, including the AMIA 2020 Virginia K. Saba Informatics Award, the HIMSS 2018 Most Influential Women in Health IT Award, the AMIA 2014 Don Eugene Detmer Award for Health Policy Contributions in Informatics, the HIMSS 2014 Federal Health IT Leadership Award, and the HIMSS 2006 Nursing Informatics Leadership Award.
She has published over 100 articles and book chapters, and has done hundreds of presentations nationally and internationally. She received an Honorary Doctor of Nursing degree from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in 2022. Judy served on the AMIA and HIMSS Board of Directors, is a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing and the American College of Medical Informatics, and is a HIMSS Lifetime Fellow. She has received numerous awards, including the AMIA 2020 Virginia K. Saba Informatics Award, the HIMSS 2018 Most Influential Women in Health IT Award, the AMIA 2014 Don Eugene Detmer Award for Health Policy Contributions in Informatics, the HIMSS 2014 Federal Health IT Leadership Award, and the HIMSS 2006 Nursing Informatics Leadership Award.
Historic ACMI Biography
Judy Murphy is currently Vice President for Information Services at Aurora Health Care in Milwaukee, an integrated delivery network with 14 hospitals, 100 ambulatory centers and clinics, three home health agencies, and over 25,000 employees. Judy is a registered nurse by clinical training, and she created the now commonplace concept of charting by exception, which paved the way for efficient electronic record keeping by nurses. She consistently focuses on the perspective of the practicing nurse in the ëëappliedíí nursing informatics arena and possesses significant self-taught, real-life experience that enables her to consistently bridge the academic/practice gap. She effectively brings forth the voice of nursing into the operations of clinical information systems design and deployment. In her current role as Vice President, Information Services for a large integrated delivery network, Ms. Murphy leads a workforce of more than 125 in translating new informatics ideas into practical information systems. Additionally, for over ten years, Ms. Murphy has been teaching clinicians in project management through workshops at AMIA, Medinfo, Healthcare Information Management Systems Society, the International Nursing Informatics Congress, and other health information technology conferences. Her election to the College recognizes her contributions to organizational and technology management in health care settings.
Affiliations
The American College of Medical Informatics
ACMI is a college of elected Fellows from the U.S. and abroad who have made significant and sustained contributions to the field of medical informatics. It is the central body for a community of scholars and practitioners who are committed to advancing the informatics field.
Year Elected
2005
Governance Committee
Member
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