Jim Jirjis

Jim Jirjis, MD, MBA, FACP is Division Director of Data Policy and Standards within the Office of Public Health Data, Surveillance, and Technology at CDC. He is responsible for leading CDC’s interoperability and data policy and standards to ensure data transmitted across the public health ecosystem is robust, interoperable, and conforms to open data policies.

Prior to joining CDC, Jim was the chief health information officer for the Hospital Corporation of America (HCA) Healthcare Clinical Service Group from 2013-2023. He oversaw data quality and governance for HCA’s clinical data enterprise and successfully automated most of the data mapping for all core data domains throughout HCA. He also served as HCA’s health IT data policy lead and was appointed to two terms on the Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) Health Information Technology Advisory Committee (HITAC)—advising ONC on public health reporting, pharmacy interoperability topic, and more.

Jim is a longtime champion of electronic medical record adoption and interoperability in the healthcare community. Before joining HCA, he practiced internal medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC), where he served as medical director of internal medicine and chief health information officer.

Jim earned his bachelor of science degree from the University of Illinois, his MBA from Vanderbilt University’s Owen School of Management, and his MD from the University of Chicago’s Pritzker School of Medicine. He is board certified in internal medicine and completed a fellowship in infectious diseases at VUMC.