Doswell Health Informatics Conference

Murphy is a pioneer and thought leader in national and international health and nursing informatics communities. As Chief Nursing Officer for IBM Global Healthcare and Deputy National Coordinator for Programs and Policy in the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) in the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, Murphy led efforts to assist health care providers in adopting health information technology and to promote consumers’ greater understanding and use of health information technology for their own health.  

Previously, she spent 36 years at Aurora Health Care in Wisconsin, 26 of those years in clinical informatics. As Vice President-Applications, she led the electronic health record program since 1995, when Aurora was an early adopter of health IT.

She has published over 100 articles and book chapters, with countless presentations nationally and internationally to her name. Murphy received an Honorary Doctor of Nursing degree from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in 2022 and served on the AMIA and HIMSS Board of Directors. She is a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing and the American College of Medical Informatics, and a HIMSS Lifetime Fellow.

The AMIA 2020 Virginia K. Saba Informatics Award, the HIMSS 2018 Most Influential Women in Health IT Award, the AMIA 2014 Don Eugene Detmer Award for Health Policy Contributions in Informatics, the HIMSS 2014 Federal Health IT Leadership Award, and the HIMSS 2006 Nursing Informatics Leadership Award are just a few awards that have recognized Murphy.

1. Explore emerging AI innovations in healthcare

   • AI technologies transforming healthcare delivery and outcomes

2. Engage with practical applications of AI in healthcare settings

   • Implementation strategies, challenges and solutions

3. Advance AI education for healthcare stakeholders

   • Strategies to integrate AI concepts into curricula and professional training for healthcare educators, practitioners and students

4. Address ethical and policy implications of AI

   • Ethical considerations, equity challenges and policy frameworks guiding responsible use of AI in healthcare

5. Promote interprofessional collaboration and leadership

   • Partnerships to enhance AI integration across the healthcare continuum