Gretchen Brown, MSN, RN, is the Chief Nursing Information Officer at Stanford Health Care. Her leadership experience is broad functioning in roles that span opening Clinical Inpatient Access, a throughput hub, interim Director/Associate Chief Nursing Officer roles covering Office of Emergency Medicine, Psychiatry, Emergency Department, and the Inpatient Patient Care Services area. Finally, Gretchen was instrumental in activating Stanford Health Care’s 800,000 square foot new state of the art hospital tower in 2019 as the point clinical representative across Patient Care Services. She was the principal in bringing a new model of care to Stanford Health Care, the Acuity Adaptable Unit that brings flexibility in care to each individual service line and patient.Through her work activating the new Hospital, Gretchen began transitioning her focus on workflows related to clinical technology platforms and Informatics. In her leadership role in Informatics, she has led initiatives and innovation around EHR enhancements and clinical technologies including reimaging a patient hub and video conferencing solution simplifying the patient interface with technology in the patient room of tomorrow.