As the chief strategy officer, Joanne Burns advances Cerner's strategic initiatives and direction by ensuring that execution across all of Cerner’s business units aligns to its vision through a clearly articulated strategy. Additionally, she works with executive leadership at large, national health care organizations guiding alignment of information technology initiatives to strategic goals and objectives established by board of director priorities. Joanne led the Tiger Institute, a unique public/private partnership between Cerner and the University of Missouri, serving as chief information officer of MU Health Care and executive director of the Tiger Institute. Under her leadership, MU Health Care received the Missouri Quality Award, and was recognized as a U.S. News & World Report “Most Connected” hospital. Previously, Joanne worked at Stanford University Medical Center in Stanford, California, and had responsibility for pioneering new models of health care delivery with heavy reliance on innovation and technology to drive down costs. Joanne received her Bachelor of Science in Nursing from the University of New York at Plattsburgh and her Master of Public Administration in Hospital Administration from the University of San Francisco. Joanne received program certification in “Women on Boards” from the Harvard T.H Chan School of Public Health. She is also an American College of Healthcare Executives Fellow designate.

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Researchers should cite this work as follows:

• Joanne Burns (2020), "Healthcare Reimagined," https://nanohub.org/resources/33151.

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