Alumna CIO Discusses Innovation in the Time of COVID

In a recent interview with HealthLeaders, Karen Murphy, Ph.D., RN '91 discussed how Geisinger and the Steele Institute pivoted to respond to COVID-19. 
Karen Murphy, Ph.D. '91
Karen Murphy, Ph.D. '91

Karen Murphy, Ph.D., RN '91 is executive vice president and chief innovation officer at Geisinger and founding director of the Steele Institute for Healthcare Innovation.

In a recent interview with HealthLeaders, she discussed how Geisinger and the Institute pivoted to respond to COVID-19, from using bots to screen employees to launching efforts to do contact tracing. 

Murphy was named a 2020 “Woman to Watch” in health information technology by Becker’s Hospital Review in January 2020.

Read the Q&A with her here.

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