Hasan Ahmad, DO

Physician Executive · Clinical Informatics · Clinical AI

Hasan Ahmad DO MBA MSc CPDHTS AIGP CDH-E CHISL FACP

VP and Associate Chief Medical Information Officer at Parkview Health, leading Epic optimization, clinical decision support, and responsible clinical AI across a 16-hospital health system, while still practicing as a hospitalist.

Speaking & talks Publications
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Selected outcomes

All measured results
  • 25%fewer interruptive alerts, 100K fewer firings a month
  • 50%shorter CDI query turnaround with rule-based and AI CDI nudges
  • 60%ambulatory encounter-level ambient AI utilization

Enterprise scope

  • Role

    Vice President and Parkview Health’s sole Associate Chief Medical Information Officer.

  • 16 hospitals

    An integrated health system serving Indiana and Ohio, with approximately 1,800 providers.

  • Physician oversight

    Physician leadership and oversight for the Epic EHR, clinical decision support, documentation tools, and clinical AI strategy.

  • Governance

    Founded and chairs the Epic Inpatient Provider Council and the Enterprise CDS Committee; chairs the Results Routing Committee and the Secure Chat workgroup. Also serves on AI Steering and 20+ additional enterprise committees.

  • Enterprise programs

    Ambient AI documentation, CDS governance and alert reduction, and clinical validation and implementation of Epic’s AI tool suite.

  • Frontline practice

    Practicing hospitalist at Parkview, keeping enterprise Epic, CDS, and AI decisions grounded in frontline workflow.

About

Hasan Ahmad, DO, MBA, MSc, FACP, is Vice President and Associate Chief Medical Information Officer at Parkview Health, a 16-hospital integrated health system serving Indiana and Ohio with approximately 1,800 providers. He provides physician leadership and oversight for Parkview’s Epic electronic health record, clinical decision support, documentation tools, and clinical AI strategy, and he continues to practice hospital medicine. Dr. Ahmad founded and chairs the Epic Inpatient Provider Council, the system’s first physician-led inpatient informatics council, and its Enterprise CDS Committee, where physician-led governance has reduced interruptive alerts by 25%, or 100,000 fewer firings each month. He has led enterprise adoption of ambient AI documentation and Epic’s AI tools, as well as implementation of the Epic Sepsis V2 model. Board certified in clinical informatics and internal medicine, he completed an ACGME clinical informatics fellowship and an MS at the University of Washington and a Physician Executive MBA at the University of Tennessee. He speaks nationally on clinical AI and decision support, and his research has appeared in JAMIA.

Areas of focus

  • Clinical decision support governance
  • Epic optimization & EHR usability
  • Ambient documentation & clinical AI
  • AI governance & strategy
  • Physician engagement & change management
  • Quality & patient safety

Recognition during his tenure at Parkview Health

  • KLAS Pinnacle Award for Physician EHR Experience 2026
  • KLAS Pinnacle Award for Physician EHR Experience 2025
  • CHIME/KLAS Synergy Award 2025
  • CHIME Most Wired, Level 10 2025

Institutional awards to Parkview Health.

Hasan Ahmad smiling in front of a KLAS Research backdrop, holding a glass KLAS award trophy in one hand and a “Trust me, I’m a doctor” speech-bubble sign in the other.
Accepting the 2026 KLAS Pinnacle Award for physician EHR experience on behalf of Parkview Health.

How I lead

  1. Govern before go-live

    Every AI and CDS tool gets clinical validation, a named owner, and a clear rule for when to stop it.

  2. Retire as deliberately as you launch

    Turning things off is stewardship. That approach is how 100,000 alert firings a month were removed.

  3. Measure what clinicians feel, then what finance needs

    Clinical value and financial value aren’t separate stories, so measure both: how clinicians feel in the first weeks, then documentation accuracy, revenue integrity, and financial outcomes over the first year.

  4. One roadmap, one table

    Clinical, IT, data, and operations leaders make the calls together instead of running disconnected pilots.

Experience

VP, Associate Chief Medical Information Officer

Parkview Health · Fort Wayne, IN

2024 – Present

Physician executive providing leadership and oversight for Epic optimization, clinical decision support, documentation tools, and clinical AI strategy, in partnership with digital/IT and clinical leadership.

Clinical informatics & Epic

Led the modular note template rollout and standardized note attestations across the system. Removed a single hard stop after process review, returning 300+ provider hours a year.

Physician-led governance

Founded and chairs the Epic Inpatient Provider Council, Parkview’s first physician-led inpatient informatics council. Founded the Results Routing Workgroup, and chairs the Results Routing Committee and the Secure Chat workgroup.

CDS governance

Founded and chairs the Enterprise CDS Committee and redesigned CDS intake and review using Clickbusters principles, cutting interruptive alerts by 25%, a sustained 100,000-per-month decrease.

Responsible AI

Authored a proposal for the enterprise AI strategy, and elements were adopted into the system approach. Led clinical validation and implementation of Epic’s AI tool suite, reaching top usage among Epic clients for AI message-prompt configuration, and an AI clinical opportunity assessment across multiple domains.

Ambient AI documentation

Led the enterprise inpatient rollout of Microsoft DAX Copilot ambient documentation, driving clinician communication, education, and adoption through specialty coaching and peer governance rather than tip-sheet-only rollouts. Speaks nationally on ambient AI adoption, resistance, and ROI.

Quality, safety & standardization

Led implementation of the Epic Sepsis V2 model, optimized the system-wide sepsis order set, and leads EHR-based standardization that supports evidence-based care and patient safety.

Measured results

  • 25%fewer interruptive alerts after redesigning CDS intake and review with Clickbusters principlesParkview Health
  • 100Kfewer interruptive alert firings per month, a sustained decreaseParkview Health
  • 60%ambulatory encounter-level utilization of ambient AI documentationParkview Health
  • 300+provider hours returned each year by removing a single hard stop after process reviewParkview Health
  • 48% → 57%CDI nudge agreement after tuning Epic’s rule-based and AI CDI nudgesParkview Health · Epic UGM 2026
  • 50%shorter CDI query turnaround time (cut in half) with Epic’s rule-based and AI CDI nudgesParkview Health · Epic UGM 2026
  • 30% → 90%carbohydrate-controlled diet ordering for diabetic inpatients, using non-interruptive CDS at the point of orderUW Medicine
  • 14%reduction in unnecessary telemetry use in 8 months through EHR-embedded order changes and workflow redesignSentara Healthcare · MBA capstone
  • 17%reduction in unnecessary daily lab ordering in 9 months through EHR-embedded order changes and workflow redesignSentara Healthcare · MBA capstone

Change management & adoption

  • Peer-led adoption, not tip sheets

    Drove ambient AI adoption through specialty coaching and peer governance instead of handout-only rollouts, reaching 60% ambulatory encounter-level utilization.

  • Physician-led governance

    Founded and chairs the Epic Inpatient Provider Council, Parkview’s first physician-led inpatient informatics council, and the Enterprise CDS Committee, and chairs the Results Routing Committee and Secure Chat workgroup, so clinicians help decide what gets built and what gets turned off.

  • Resistance as feedback

    Serves as a visible physician advocate for clinicians in technology initiatives, treating pushback as usability data to act on rather than a training gap.

  • Feedback built into the workflow

    Designed REDCap feedback links inside inpatient, outpatient, and ED order sets, averaging about 1 minute 19 seconds per submission. The method was later replicated at Parkview and presented at Epic XGM.

  • Go-live readiness

    Led physician change management and go-live readiness for Epic’s rule-based and AI CDI nudges, tuning them until agreement rose from 48% to 57%.

  • Earning physician time

    Projects must give clinicians time back, like the 300+ provider hours returned each year by removing a single hard stop.

  1. 2025 – Present

    Hospitalist

    Parkview Health · Fort Wayne, IN

    Active hospital medicine practice that keeps enterprise Epic, CDS, and AI decisions grounded in frontline workflow.

  2. 2022 – 2024

    Clinical Informatics Fellow

    UW Medicine · Seattle, WA

    ACGME-accredited fellowship across UW Medicine and Seattle Children’s, spanning inpatient, ambulatory, priority projects, and enterprise data and analytics, while also working on the hospital medicine service at Harborview Medical Center. Worked directly with the CMIO, ACMIOs, CMOs, and Chief Data Officer on clinical informatics, digital tools, and analytics priorities. Raised carbohydrate-controlled diet ordering for diabetic inpatients from 30% to 90% with non-interruptive CDS, built order-set feedback links later replicated at Parkview, and contributed to ambient AI vendor evaluation and the generative AI workgroup.

  3. 2023 – 2024

    Executive Board, Chair of Education & Virtual Case Conference

    AMIA Clinical Informatics Fellows (ACIF)

    Elected national role. Led 9 virtual case conferences featuring 18 fellow presenters from 13 organizations.

  4. 2023

    Visiting Clinical Informatics Fellow

    Vanderbilt University Medical Center · Nashville, TN

    CDS optimization, alert-fatigue analysis, and value-set quality research, contributing to a JAMIA publication on using LLMs to optimize CDS.

  5. 2019 – 2022

    Hospitalist

    Sentara Healthcare · Charlottesville, VA and Harrisonburg, VA

    Reduced unnecessary telemetry use by 14% and unnecessary daily labs by 17% through EHR-embedded order changes and workflow redesign.

  6. 2017 – 2019

    Hospitalist

    Ballad Health · Kingsport, TN and Bristol, TN

  7. 2014 – 2017

    Internal Medicine Resident; Chief Resident (2016–2017)

    East Tennessee State University, Quillen College of Medicine · Johnson City, TN

  8. 2012 – 2014

    Director (2013–2014); Associate Director (2012–2013)

    Medical Society of Virginia Board of Directors · Richmond, VA

Education

  • Chief Data and AI Officer Executive Program, Carnegie Mellon University (in progress)
  • Clinical Informatics Fellowship (ACGME), University of Washington School of Medicine
  • MS, Clinical Informatics and Patient-Centered Technologies, University of WashingtonCapstone: Feedback Categorization of Epic MyChart Patient Portal User Experience Survey Data Using a Topic Classification Natural Language Processing Model
  • Physician Executive MBA, Haslam College of Business, University of TennesseeCapstone: Reducing Hospitalist Unnecessary Telemetry and Daily Lab Utilization
  • Internal Medicine Residency, East Tennessee State University, Quillen College of Medicine
  • DO, Edward Via College of Osteopathic Medicine
  • BS, Biology and Psychology, University of Virginia

Board certifications & credentials

  • Clinical Informatics, American Board of Preventive MedicineAmerican Board of Preventive Medicine (ABPM) seal
  • Internal Medicine, American Board of Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) Board Certified badge
  • Obesity Medicine, American Board of Obesity MedicineAmerican Board of Obesity Medicine (ABOM) seal
  • Fellow, American College of Physicians (FACP)American College of Physicians Fellow (FACP) badge
  • Artificial Intelligence Governance Professional (AIGP), IAPPIAPP Certified AI Governance Professional (AIGP) badge
  • Certified Professional in Digital Health Transformation Strategy (CPDHTS), HIMSSHIMSS Certified Professional in Digital Health Transformation Strategy (CPDHTS) badge
  • Certified Healthcare Information Security Leader (CHISL), CHIMECHIME Certified Healthcare Information Security Leader (CHISL) badge
  • Certified Digital Health – Executive (CDH-E), CHIMECHIME Certified Digital Health – Executive (CDH-E) badge
  • Artificial Intelligence Advanced Certification, American Board of Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
  • Epic certifications, including Physician Builder, Cogito, Clarity, Caboodle, and Cosmos Administration

Speaking

Talks on clinical AI, ambient documentation, alert fatigue, and physician-led EHR governance at Epic UGM and XGM, Becker’s Healthcare, and KLAS Research events.

Speaking topics

  • Scaling AI across the care team

    Moving from disconnected pilots to enterprise scale, drawing on the ambient AI rollout, Epic’s AI tool suite, and AI CDI nudges; upcoming at Becker’s CEO + CFO Roundtable, Nov 2026.

  • Agentic AI governance

    What health systems should put in writing before an AI agent acts, and how to prepare for next-generation models.

  • Validating clinical AI before go-live

    Lessons from clinically validating and implementing Epic’s AI tool suite and assessing AI opportunities across multiple domains.

  • The AI kill switch as a design requirement

    A named owner and a clear rule for when to stop every AI and CDS tool before go-live.

  • Ambient AI: adoption, resistance, and ROI

    Peer-led adoption, resistance as usability feedback, and measuring value from the first weeks to the first year.

  • AI-assisted clinical documentation integrity

    Rule-based and AI CDI nudges that cut query turnaround time by 50% and raised agreement from 48% to 57%, presented at Epic UGM 2026.

  • CDS governance and alert reduction

    Clickbusters-style review that cut interruptive alerts by 25%, about 100,000 fewer firings a month.

  • The physician EHR experience

    Physician-led councils, order-set feedback, and usability fixes that give clinicians time back.

Event organizers: for speaking and panel invitations, connect with Hasan on LinkedIn.

Hasan Ahmad speaking at a podium on stage beneath a large screen reading “Parkview Health & Epic: Implementing Epic’s Rule-Based and AI CDI Nudges with Lessons Learned as an Early Adopter,” with a “Meet Me at the Midway” Epic banner, as the audience watches from tiered seats.
Epic UGM, Aug 2026: Implementing Epic’s Rule-Based and AI CDI Nudges with Lessons Learned as an Early Adopter
Hasan Ahmad in a dark suit jacket speaking at an ornately carved marble podium, with a blurred presentation screen behind him.
At the podium
Six panelists standing together beside a screen showing the session “The Unprecedented Rise of Mythos and Other Next-Gen AI Models: What Health Systems Can Do To Prepare,” dated Monday, September 14, 2026, at Becker’s 11th Annual IT + Revenue Cycle Conference.
Next-gen AI models panel, Becker’s IT + Revenue Cycle Conference, Sep 14, 2026
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AI in Patient Care panel, Becker’s Healthcare, Sep 2026
Hasan Ahmad wearing a KLAS Provider lanyard, standing beside a KLAS Research banner with a “Stein Eriksen Ballrooms” sign behind him.
At a KLAS Research event
Hasan Ahmad and a host seated at a Philips-branded table with microphones and “Recording in Progress” podcast signs at a conference.
Podcast recording at the Philips booth

Upcoming

Promo card reading “I’m Speaking at Becker’s 14th Annual CEO + CFO Roundtable, November 2 - 5, 2026 // The Hyatt Regency Chicago” with the session title “Scaling AI Across the Care Team: Lessons From Health System Leaders,” Hasan Ahmad’s name and title, and his headshot.

Scaling AI Across the Care Team: Lessons From Health System Leaders

Becker’s 14th Annual CEO + CFO Roundtable

· The Hyatt Regency Chicago

2026

  • AI in Patient Care: Real-World Impacts at the BedsideBecker’s HIT + Digital Health + RCM ConferenceSep 2026
  • The Unprecedented Rise of Mythos and Other Next-Gen AI Models: What Health Systems Can Do To PrepareBecker’s HIT + Digital Health + RCM ConferenceSep 2026
  • The Epic Decision: Navigating Tradeoffs Between Epic and Third PartiesKLAS Research and Bain & CompanyAug 2026
  • Implementing Epic’s Rule-Based and AI CDI Nudges with Lessons Learned as an Early AdopterEpic UGMAug 2026
  • AI for Physician ExecutivesPhysician Executive MBA Program, Haslam College of Business, University of TennesseeAug 2026

    “What an outstanding session! … we need a longer session next time!”

    Kate Atchley, Haslam College of Business
  • OPA Data-Driven Overhaul to Reduce Alert FatigueEpic XGMApr 2026
  • Ambient AI Real Talk: Adoption, Resistance, and ROIBecker’s Annual MeetingApr 2026

2025

  • The Future of Ambient AI: Key Challenges and OpportunitiesBecker’s HIT + Digital Health + RCM ConferenceOct 2025
  • Establishing a Physician-Led Inpatient Informatics Council to Improve EHR UsabilityEpic UGMAug 2025
  • Optimizing Ambient Documentation While Keeping Your Coders HappyEpic XGMApr 2025
  • Introduction to Clinical Informatics: Leveraging Technology to Improve HealthcareParkview Internal Medicine Residency Academic DidacticsJan 2025
  • Parkview OurPractice Advisories Review Process, Streamlining Admission OrdersParkview Connect Winter ForumJan 2025
  • Clinical Informatics Program Directors Career Panel for Clinical Informatics FellowsParkview HealthJan 2025

2023 – 2024

  • TWO THUMBS UP: Streamlining User Feedback for Order Sets and SmartSetsEpic XGMMay 2024
  • AI and Generative AI: Improving Healthcare WorkflowsExecutive Discussion with HIMSS Washington, AWS, and Deloitte: Impacts of New Technology in HealthcareJan 2024
  • Beyond the Buttons: Measuring the Safety Impact of BPAsEpic UGMAug 2023
  • Using Feedback Links to Assess User Sentiment on Order Sets and SmartSetsAMIA Clinical Informatics Fellows (ACIF) Virtual Case ConferenceAug 2023

Writing & Publications

In the media

Cartoons

Visual takes on clinical informatics, AI governance, and health system strategy, originally shared on LinkedIn.

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Contact

For speaking invitations, panels, podcasts, media, and research collaboration, connect with Dr. Ahmad on LinkedIn.

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