Jitendra Barmecha

Dr. Jitendra Barmecha began his clinical and healthcare leadership career at SBH Health System (SBHHS), Bronx NY as Chief Medical Resident after completing three years in the Internal Medicine Residency Program. Following his chief medical residency, he earned his MPH degree in Health Management and Policy at New York Medical College, while continuing to provide patient care and medical education services as faculty in the Department of Medicine at SBHHS. 

As a Chief Information and Digital Strategy officer, he is involved in SBHHS digital transformation journey by upgrading the health systems technology & telecom infrastructure, information security; ensuring clinical information systems and patient monitoring devices are well integrated into the electronic health records for the future, data innovations and implementing patient facing applications. 

Dr. Barmecha has been a member of the senior executive team of the COVID-19 pandemic command center at SBHHS. He has been instrumental in providing technology, telecommunication, biomedical engineering, clinical, public health knowledge and resources for the emergency response, surge capacity, COVID vaccination and reopening strategies of the health system. During the early part of the COVID-19 pandemic, he contributed in the publication of “Telehealth Implementation Playbook” & Remote Monitoring of Patients for the American Medical Association and “Telemedicine for the physicians” for the American College of Physicians. As a chairman of the board, he provides clinical leadership to the Bronx Regional Health Information Exchange (RHIO) & Bronx Regional Informatics Center. He is the founding executive board member of NODE Health – network of evidence in Digital Medicine, also serves on the healthcare advisory board for Verizon 5G and Salesforce. 

Dr. Barmecha serves as a chair of the Digital and Telehealth Advisory Board at the American College of Physicians and a member of Medical Informatics Committee. He is the Immediate Past President and Governor of the NY State Chapter and fellow of the American College of Physicians, Senior Fellow of the Society of Hospital Medicine and Fellow of European Congress of Internal Medicine. While continuing his passion for bedside patient care as a hospitalist, he enjoys teaching clinical staff, medical students and routinely provides lectures on health care management, technology, digital medicine, augmented intelligence (AI), care innovation and health policy. He has published several book chapters on the topics of clinical medicine, health IT and patient safety.