Diego Ize Ludlow
About Diego Ize Ludlow
Diego Ize Ludlow serves as the Vice President and Chief Health Informatics Officer at Intermountain Healthcare, where he has been instrumental in advancing health informatics and interoperability efforts. He has an extensive background in pediatric endocrinology and has held various academic and leadership positions throughout his career.
Current Role at Intermountain Healthcare
Diego Ize Ludlow serves as the Vice President and Chief Health Informatics Officer at Intermountain Healthcare. He has held this position since 2022, contributing to the organization in a hybrid work environment in the United States. In this role, he focuses on advancing health informatics strategies to enhance clinical delivery and improve patient outcomes.
Previous Experience at Intermountain Healthcare
Prior to his current role, Diego Ize Ludlow worked at Intermountain Healthcare in various capacities. He served as the Associate Chief Health Information Officer from 2016 to 2019 and as the Chief Health Information Officer from 2019 to 2022. During his tenure, he led efforts in electronic health record (EHR) interoperability and established a value-based care informatics function.
Education and Training
Diego Ize Ludlow completed his Doctor of Medicine (M.D.) at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México from 1992 to 2000. He furthered his training in pediatrics at Miami Children's Hospital, where he completed his residency from 2000 to 2003. He then pursued a Fellowship in Pediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine from 2003 to 2006.
Academic Positions
Diego Ize Ludlow has held several academic positions, primarily at the University of Illinois system. He served as an Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics from 2007 to 2016. Additionally, he was the Chief of the Section of Pediatric Endocrinology from 2015 to 2016 and the Associate Medical Director at the Children and Adolescent Center for a year in 2010.
Certifications and Achievements
Diego Ize Ludlow played a significant role in positioning Intermountain Healthcare as the first healthcare organization globally to achieve certification on the EMRAM 2002 HIMSS aspiration model standards. This included meeting all three HIMSS Stage 7 Maturity Models, which are recognized benchmarks for health information management.