Aaron Miri, MBA, FCHIME, CHCIO

Aaron Miri joined Baptist Health as the Senior Vice President and Chief Digital and Information Officer in 2021. In this position, he is responsible for developing the strategic technology vision of Baptist Health and leading the team charged with the implementation and effective adoption of technology solutions. The technology department strives to humanize technology, driving integration and optimization that enables patient-focused care delivery.

Miri has more than 20 years of health care and technology experience and serves as a thought leader on digital strategy both internally at Baptist Health and externally with the larger healthcare community. As an active and distinguished member of several health IT organizations, Miri continues to promote initiatives to improve interoperability, efficiency, and IT innovation to support improved care delivery models.

Since joining Baptist, Miri has been responsible for the systemwide EMR conversion to Epic, improving Baptist’s providers’ and clinicians’ ability to provide patient-centered care. Miri is passionate about driving a learning health system and utilizing advanced analytics to improve both future care and population health.

Prior to joining Baptist Health, Miri served as the Chief Information Officer for The University of Texas at Austin, Dell Medical School and UT Health Austin (Texas). His roles prior to UT Austin include Chief Information Officer for Imprivata, a health care IT company based in Boston, Massachusetts; Chief Information Officer for Walnut Hill Medical Center in Dallas, Texas; and Chief Technology Officer for Children’s Health System of Texas in Dallas.

Miri is a nationally recognized 2024 “CIOs to Know” by Becker’s Hospital Review, 2024 Florida CIO ORBIE award winner, 2020 Healthcare Hero’s Awardee from CHIME, and has received numerous other industry awards recognizing him as a leader and changemaker. In January 2022, he joined The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) Board of Trustees.

In June 2023, Governor Ron DeSantis appointed Miri to the Florida Cybersecurity Advisory Council. In 2020, The United States Senate appointed Miri for a second term to the Health and Human Services, federal Health IT Advisory Committee (HITAC) where he serves as co-chairman and has participated in several intiatives including the development of the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA). In 2016, The Obama Administration appointed Miri to serve on the Health IT Policy Committee established under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. He is an advisor to the National Academy of Medicine and serves on many not-for-profit boards.

Miri received his MBA with distinction from the University of Dallas and his Bachelor of Science in Management Information Systems from the University of Texas at Arlington. He is a Certified Healthcare Chief Information Officer (CHCIO) through the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives, a distinguished Fellow with the Health Information Management Systems Society (FHIMSS), a distinguished Fellow with the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (FCHIME), and he is a Project Management Professional (PMP) with the Project Management Institute.

Miri is married to Sasha, a teacher, and is a proud father of two daughters.