Vice President and Chief Information Officer

Deanna Hanisch is the chief information officer (CIO) for the Johns Hopkins Health System. She directs the organization’s information-technology vision and digital-health strategy, spanning data and analytics platforms, clinical and revenue-cycle applications, virtual-care tools and the health system’s expanding portfolio of artificial-intelligence solutions.

Before her appointment as CIO, Hanisch served as vice president for health information technology at Johns Hopkins Medicine. She led the migration of core clinical systems to a modern cloud environment, launched the Johns Hopkins Medicine Software Intake Process to streamline technology adoption, and guided the enterprise to HIMSS Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model Stage 7 and CHIME “Most Wired” Level 9 designations.

Hanisch joined Johns Hopkins in 2016 after eight years with Epic Systems Corporation, where she directed large-scale electronic health-record implementations for academic medical centers, including the multiyear Johns Hopkins. Earlier in her career, she conducted neurobiology research at Northwestern University in collaboration with industry partners, contributing to peer-reviewed publications.

Hanisch holds a Master of Science degree in neurobiology and physiology and a Bachelor of Arts degree in biology from Northwestern University. She is an active member of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) and the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME).