The Millennium Alliance is proud to announce that Babatope Fatuyi, CMIO at UTHealth, received the Clinical Innovation Leadership Award at our Healthcare Technology & AI Transformation Assembly, held August 4–5 at The Ritz-Carlton in New Orleans.
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About Dr Babatope Fatuyi
Babatope Fatuyi serves as Chief Medical Information Officer for UTHealth Houston and is a part-time faculty member at The McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics (SBMI), UTHealth Houston. He has an extensive operational and IT leadership history at all levels of Clinical Informatics Initiative with Proven outcomes. At UTHealth Houston, Dr Fatuyi Chairs the EHR Governance Taskforce which is responsible for the approval, direction setting and prioritization of EHR designs and content decisions to ensure that the best possible patient care is achieved using the EHR as an effective tool by way of the subcommittees/councils. He is also the Steering Committee Chair of the Center for Digital Healthcare Innovation (CDHI) at UTHealth Houston. CDHI at UTHealth Houston is set with a purpose to attain the sustenance of an end-to-end integrated, patient-centric EHR for the support of care-delivery, education and research. The Center focuses on the utilization of informatics and digital trends to drive maximal ROI on institutional investments in particular operational infrastructure and clinical technology.
Dr. Fatuyi co-led and published the peer-reviewed validation of an AI-powered, real-time clinical translation tool serving patients with limited English proficiency. He chairs the EHR Governance Taskforce and leads the Center for Digital Healthcare Innovation Steering Committee. He was named to Becker’s Healthcare’s national “CMIOs to Know” list in both 2023 and 2024 — the only Houston physician recognized either year.
