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Toronto, ON-based SickKids has Appointed Sarah Muttitt as Chief Information Officer
About the Company
The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) is recognized as one of the world’s foremost paediatric health-care institutions and is Canada’s leading centre dedicated to advancing children’s health through the integration of patient care, research and education. Founded in 1875 and affiliated with the University of Toronto, SickKids is one of Canada’s most research-intensive hospitals and has generated discoveries that have helped children globally. Our mission is to provide the best in complex and specialized family-centred care; pioneer scientific and clinical advancements; share expertise; foster an academic environment that nurtures health-care professionals; and champion an accessible, comprehensive and sustainable child health system. SickKids is proud of its vision of Healthier Children. A Better World.
About the Person
Having trained at SickKids and served as a Senior Fellow in Neonatology in the late 1980s, Sarah Muttitt possesses more than 25 years of experience in the health-care industry with a clinical background in paediatrics and neonatology.. She went on to become a Staff Neonatologist and Assistant Professor in the Department of Paediatrics at the University of Alberta from 1989 – 1993. She has successfully led large-scale health-care transformation and information technology initiatives both in Canada and in the Asia region. Muttitt has provided leadership for telehealth initiatives across Canada and served as Vice President, Innovation and Adoption at Canada Health Infoway. From 2007 – 2012, she was the Chief Information Officer of the Ministry of Health (MOH) in Singapore, responsible for the development and delivery of a national health-care IT strategy in support of the MOH key priorities. This included the implementation of Singapore’s National Electronic Health Record and supporting services such as Enterprise Architecture, Standards, Identity and Security, and Clinical Informatics. Her work expanded to include Community Hospital and GP EMR implementation and Consumer Health for telehealth, personal health management and national call centre services. Muttitt returned to Canada in 2013 to join Alberta Health Services and lead the Provincial Clinical Information System program, which is currently underway. She was appointed Chief Medical Information Officer in October 2013, also assuming responsibility for Health Information Management and Clinical Informatics. She currently serves as an “Innovator in Residence” at the Ivey International Centre for Health Innovation. Muttitt graduated with a degree in Medicine at the University of Alberta and completed a Masters of Business Administration from the Ivey Business School at the University of Western Ontario.
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