Justin Morea
Justin Morea, DO, MBA
Chief Medical Information Officer
NYC Health + Hospitals/Harlem
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Blending Medicine With Technology
Dr. Justin Morea is a rare combination of doctor and technologist. So, when leaders at NYC Health & Hospitals/Harlem realized their medical records and communication system needed a serious upgrade, they brought in Dr. Morea as the hospital’s chief medical information officer. A hospitalist who is also an expert in biomedical informatics, Dr. Morea arrived from Indiana in 2021 and quickly established a new division that has implemented a range of IT initiatives that have helped clinicians and staff deliver care that is more efficient, coordinated and responsive to patients’ needs.
Dr. Morea was drawn to computer programming as a teenager but was also inspired by his father, a physician. “I discovered the emerging field of biomedical informatics and knew that blending medicine with technology to improve patient care was the perfect fit for me,” he says. After earning a degree in computer science, he became a doctor of osteopathy and worked as an internal medicine hospitalist in Indianapolis for a decade – earning a master’s in health informatics and a medical MBA along the way. “Whether I’m caring for patients or working on health IT to enhance clinical workflows, improve communication between clinicians and assist decision-making, my medical training informs everything I do.”
Dr. Morea strives for technology that makes clinicians’ jobs easier and, ultimately, patients’ outcomes better. “Physician stress and burnout are real challenges,” he says. “I follow the mantra: ‘Make it easy to do the right thing and hard to do the wrong thing.’ He also believes that patients do best when they are well-informed and actively involved in their care. “This means providing truthful, evidence-based information, fully explaining treatment options and never misleading or withholding difficult truths.”
As a clinician himself, Dr. Morea knows of what he speaks: “Seeing a critically ill patient receive the right treatment and ultimately recover enough to return home is a powerful reminder of why I love this profession.”