Toni Laracuente Joins HIMSS as Senior Vice President, Head of Analytics

HIMSS is proud to announce that Toni Laracuente, RN, BSN, CPHIMS, has joined the organization as Senior Vice President, Head of Analytics.

In her role, Laracuente is responsible for industry alignment, product strategy and go-to-market for all HIMSS maturity models, the enterprise’s Digital Health Indicator (DHI) and services portfolios. These tools serve as the platforms for guiding digital health transformation with an evidence-based, data-driven methodology.

Laracuente has a nursing background in critical care, emergency department, quality improvement and informatics and has served in executive leadership, clinical, business development, strategic planning and consulting roles for several global health IT organizations throughout the United States, Australia/Asia-Pacific region and the United Kingdom. She is a registered nurse with a Bachelor of Science in Nursing, master’s degrees in health management and health informatics and CPHIMS certification.

With more than 30 years of experience in healthcare, Laracuente is passionate about the use of innovative technology to facilitate the delivery of safe, quality data-informed clinical and operational decision making, to improve healthcare equity for underserved populations and to relieve the clinical workforce EHR burden.

“I’ve worked in healthcare for many years, and I’ve seen how the work we do affects the patients at the center of everything,” Laracuente said. “I bring a data perspective, informed by nursing informatics and clinical experience, to the issues of equitable and efficient patient care and the question of how we can improve health outcomes at both the population level and the individual level.”

Before joining HIMSS, Laracuente was the Chief Nursing Officer and Chief Nursing Information Officer with Medicomp Systems, leading product strategy, design and implementation methodology for nursing and multidisciplinary solutions throughout North America and internationally.