Healthcare technology
10 CIOs in Healthcare Technology
These ten executives hold or have held a chief information officer title, including combined and divisional CIO roles, at healthcare technology companies. A reader can learn how technology leaders at these companies run IT, security and infrastructure while supporting healthcare products and data.
Professionals to explore
01—10Adnan Mansour
LinkedInExperience: Chief Information Officer, Payer Market & AI, Optum Insight · Optum
Former Chief Information Officer, Payer Market & AI, Optum Insight at Optum (2024–2025), after SVP & CTO, Administrative Solutions and AI Optum Insight (2023–2024) and SVP, Enterprise Technology Product & AI at Change Healthcare (2020–2022). Adnan has been Chief Digital Officer (CDO) at Alignment Health since January 2026, and the profile headline reads Health Tech, CDO, CIO and AI.
Brian Biunno
LinkedInExperience: Chief Information Officer · Aprexis Inc
Chief Information Officer at Aprexis Inc since June 2026; the profile describes Aprexis Health Solutions as a software company whose MTM pharmacy network provides an integrated MTM software platform and clinical programs. Brian previously held product and technology roles at Optum, including Vice President, Optum Tech (2024–2026), Senior Director of Product (2019–2024) and Director of Product (2016–2019).
Don Stearns, MBA, PMP
LinkedInExperience: Vice President & CIO · athenahealth
Vice President & CIO at athenahealth since August 2024, after Executive Director Product Management, FinTech (2020–2024), Director, Product Management (2019–2020) and Director, Finance (2019) roles at athenahealth. Don's profile headline cites enterprise business application oversight, IT organization development and budget ownership; Don earlier worked as Commercial Finance & Operations Manager at GE HealthCare (2012–2018).
Donavan Durbin
LinkedInExperience: Chief Information Officer · Aesto Health
Chief Information Officer at Aesto Health since 2018; the profile describes Aesto Health as an IT services company providing solutions for legacy healthcare data, including migration, archive and access. Donavan's other roles include CTO at Verse Technology (2011–2018) and IT Director at Santa Ysabel Resort and Casino (2007–2013).
Garo Doudian
LinkedInExperience: Chief Information and Security Officer (CIO & CISO) · NextGen Healthcare
Chief Information and Security Officer (CIO & CISO) at NextGen Healthcare since March 2024, leading the information security and infrastructure teams per the profile; NextGen Healthcare is listed as a software company providing cloud EHR and EMR solutions for specialty practices. Garo was previously SVP, Chief Information Security Officer at Moody's Analytics (2021–2023) and at Green Dot Corporation (2012–2020).
Jahidul Khandaker
LinkedInExperience: Chief Information Officer · GE HealthCare
Chief Information Officer at GE HealthCare since October 2022; the profile describes GE HealthCare as providing digital infrastructure, data analytics and decision support tools for diagnosis, treatment and patient monitoring. Jahidul's profile also lists SVP Chief Information Officer (CIO) at WD (2020–2022) and Vice President, Enterprise Applications at Western Digital Corporation (2015–2020).
Jeff Nadler
LinkedInExperience: Chief Information Officer · Teladoc Health
Chief Information Officer at Teladoc Health from 2017 (the profile headline marks the role as retired), after serving as Chief Technology Officer there (2010–2017). The profile describes Teladoc Health as the global virtual care leader; Jeff was earlier Chief Technology Officer at ActiveHealth (2004–2010) and Senior Vice President at Marsh Risk (2002–2004).
Michael Nigels
LinkedInExperience: Chief Information Officer · Opyn Health
Chief Information Officer at Opyn Health since October 2025; the profile says that following the acquisition of Empara, Michael serves as CIO of the combined Opyn Health organization, leading its technology and data strategy, and the headline describes an AI-first healthcare platform leader. Michael was Chief Technology Officer Co-Founder at Empara (2023–2026) and Chief Technology Officer at Recom (2021–2022).
Robert Spurlock
LinkedInExperience: Chief Information Officer · Avel eCare
Chief Information Officer at Avel eCare since April 2022; the profile describes Avel eCare as one of the first telemedicine care providers to offer provider-to-provider services via telemedicine, delivering virtual care. Robert was earlier CIO, Network Solutions at Zelis (2017–2018) and VP Information Technology at Change Healthcare (2014–2017).
Simon Jones
LinkedInExperience: Chief Information Officer · American Medical Technologies (AMT)
Former Chief Information Officer at American Medical Technologies (AMT) (2018–2021), and Chief Information and Digital Officer at Altais since November 2025. Simon was also Principal Consulting CIO at Ironwood Health (2021–2024), and the profile headline describes a HealthTech executive driving digital transformation across payer, provider and SaaS, with 25+ years of experience.
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Match the person's background to your question: CIOs who came up through security or infrastructure suit questions about compliance and operations, while those with product or data backgrounds suit questions about customer-facing platforms. Check each person's dates to see whether their CIO experience is current.
Questions to take into the conversation
- 01How do you split responsibility between the CIO, CTO and security teams at a healthcare technology company?
- 02What does it take to pass customer security reviews and meet HIPAA requirements while scaling cloud infrastructure?
- 03Which internal systems did you modernize first as the company grew, and why?
About this directory
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