Brian Herrick

Chief Information Officer at Cambridge Health Alliance

Brian Herrick, MD, was named CHA’s Chief Information Officer in 2019. Dr. Herrick first joined CHA in 2010 as the Senior Director of Clinical Informatics and became Chief Medical Information Officer in 2012. As the senior physician responsible for overseeing the IT department's collaboration with patients, clinicians, operations, quality, compliance and researchers, he has played an essential part in improving patient quality and provider satisfaction with the clinical tools they depend on.

His accomplishments including launching a number of new features in CHA's MyChart patient portal, which gives patients active in the system better control to manage their health, and guiding CHA through the many stages of Meaningful Use, ensuring that the organization has achieved the highest level of payments from this incentive program. He has also worked with regional healthcare leaders to create a standard in the Epic function Care Everywhere to promote inter-organizational information exchange to benefit patient care.

Dr. Herrick completed his medical degree at Dartmouth Medical School, family medicine residency at the University of Rochester, a fellowship in faculty development at the University of California at San Francisco and a certificate in biomedical informatics from Oregon Health and Science University. He completed his board certification in clinical informatics in 2017.

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  • Chief Information Officer

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