NYC Health + Hospitals’ Chief Data Officer Divya Pathak Receives “AI Innovator Award” at MachineCon 2024

NYC Health + Hospitals' Chief Data Officer Divya Pathak Receives "AI Innovator Award" at MachineCon 2024

The prestigious award recognizes the best minds in the artificial intelligence and data science industry who have successfully transformed data into competitive advantage

Aug 02, 2024

Divya Pathak, NYC Health + Hospitals' Chief Data Officer, has been named as a recipient of the "AI Innovator Award" at MachineCon 2024, an annual gathering of Chief Analytics and Artificial Intelligence (AI) leaders across all industries in the United States. The award recognizes leaders who have successfully transformed data into meaningful insights to support the growth of their organizations. Pathak was honored for her exceptional innovation in the development and deployment of AI technologies in health care. She has been a leader within NYC Health + Hospitals for strategic AI investments, developed best practices and implementation frameworks for AI solutions, and established guidelines for safe and responsible AI use in clinical care. The annual gathering is organized by AIM Research, a global analyst firm specializing in artificial intelligence.

Divya Pathak serves as the Chief Data Officer for NYC Health + Hospitals, the largest municipal health care delivery system in the United States. In this role, she provides executive leadership and strategic direction to the Data & Analytics organization to support NYC Health + Hospitals and its partners with data and digital tools, AI capabilities and insights to drive quality and performance improvements, support enterprise operations, and enhance patient outcomes. She is a thought leader and serves as a subject matter expert on leveraging AI and analytics to solve business, clinical, and operational problems in health care and collaborates with industry and academia in bringing emerging technologies to accelerate AI transformation at scale. She also actively engages in public speaking at industry and academic events on the use of AI in healthcare and clinical medicine.

With nearly 18 years of expertise in AI, software engineering, and talent development, Pathak excels in delivering impactful solutions for diverse stakeholders, including health systems, academic medical centers, payors, digital health, and pharmaceutical companies. Before joining NYC Health + Hospitals, she served as the Vice Chair for Artificial Intelligence & Analytics in the Center for Digital Health at Mayo Clinic. In this role, she led the Enterprise AI & Analytics organization, successfully delivering multiple AI-based solutions for clinical practice and enterprise operations. Pathak has also held key technical and managerial positions at IBM Research, where she spearheaded the delivery of pioneering AI innovations tailored for the health care provider and payer markets.

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NYC Health + Hospitals is the largest municipal health care system in the nation serving more than a million New Yorkers annually in more than 70 patient care locations across the city's five boroughs. A robust network of outpatient, neighborhood-based primary and specialty care centers anchors care coordination with the system's trauma centers, nursing homes, post-acute care centers, home care agency, and MetroPlus health plan-all supported by 11 essential hospitals. Its diverse workforce of more than 43,000 employees is uniquely focused on empowering New Yorkers, without exception, to live the healthiest life possible. For more information, visit www.nychealthandhospitals.org and stay connected on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn.