Nick Patel

Dr. Patel served as the inaugural Chief Digital Officer (CDO) at Prisma Health for three years and continues to serve as the Vice Chair of Primary Care in the Department of Medicine in South Carolina. He practiced as an internal medicine physician for the past eighteen years. As the CDO, he formulated a strong vision and strategy for the modernization of healthcare delivery. He managed the digital health team to implement chatbots, enhanced video visits, remote patient monitoring, automated campaigns, expanded bedside diabetic retinopathy screening and gave insight into Prisma’s CRM deployment. While at Prisma, he also led projects to bring virtual reality, and 3D printing utilization in care delivery. Dr. Patel has given multiple presentations around the country ranging in topics from digital transformation, governance, workflow enhancements, health equity, telehealth, AI, CRM and population health. He is well recognized as a thought leader in defining and articulating a unique vision on the utilization and development of technology in healthcare to remove barriers to care.

Because of his industry contributions, he currently serves on multiple healthcare advisory boards including HP Inc., University of South Carolina College of Engineering and Computer Science, Kyruus, Conversa, Perfect Serve, Enlyt Health, GAVS technology, Upfront, CloudmedX and Tytocare. He currently holds a clinical faculty position at the USC School of Medicine department of internal medicine as Vice Chair and USC School of Engineering and Computing. As Vice Chair of primary care, he grew the division threefold, enhanced provider contracts, gave insight into practice redesign, and sustained a net positive operating margin.

He is one of two physicians in the world who have been awarded Microsoft’s Most Valuable Professional Award. Dr. Patel is a frequent contributor to Becker’s Hospital Review; they named him Top 20 Chief Digital Officers to know in 2020 and Top 35 in 2022 in addition to their Top 50 Digital Innovators in 2022. Fierce Healthcare also recognized him as one of their 2021 Most Influential Minority Executives in Healthcare.