ARMC Announces Appointment of Chief Information and Digital Transformation Officer Andrea L. Daugherty

Arrowhead Regional Medical Center (ARMC) has appointed Andrea Daugherty, a nationally recognized senior health care information technology (IT) executive, as the inaugural Chief Information and Digital Transformation Officer.

“We are looking forward to Andrea bringing her combination of real-world data expertise, equity-focused risk models, and her health equity lens,” said ARMC Chief Executive Officer Andrew Goldfrach, FACHE. “This will help us meet people where they are and deliver measurable improvements in prevention and population health outcomes.”

The Chief Information and Digital Transformation Officer role is central to ARMC’s strategy to become the Inland Empire’s provider of choice. It reflects the organization’s commitment to a digitally enabled future for the communities it serves.

Daugherty brings 15 years of digital health executive leadership, with a track record of building and developing high-performing teams and leading large-scale digital transformations across academic medical centers, integrated delivery systems, and enterprise health care organizations.

Daugherty’s work has consistently centered on expanding access to care for underserved populations, reducing friction for clinicians and patients, strengthening cybersecurity and data governance, and translating emerging technologies, including artificial intelligence, into measurable operational and clinical impacts.

At ARMC, she will lead digital transformation across the enterprise in direct support of clinical teams, operational leaders, and the communities ARMC serves. Before joining ARMC, Daugherty advised health care organizations on digital strategy and developed an artificial intelligence-powered precision health platform focused on stroke prevention and the optimization of cardiac and neurological health outcomes for women of color and underserved communities.

“ARMC’s mission and San Bernardino County’s commitment to the Inland Empire community are why this role matters,” said Daugherty. “ARMC has the mission, the people, and the momentum to become a model for what digitally enabled public health care can be. I am grateful to Andrew Goldfrach, Chief Operating and Strategy Officer, Carlos Prieto, and the San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors for the trust to lead this transformation.”

Daugherty holds an MHA and is a Certified Healthcare Chief Information Officer (CHCIO), Certified Digital Health Executive (CDH-E), and CISSP. She previously served on the CHIME Board and currently serves on multiple CIO advisory boards. Daugherty has co-authored peer-reviewed research on digital health and health equity and was named a 2022 ORBIE CIO of the Year Finalist.

About Arrowhead Regional Medical Center

Arrowhead Regional Medical Center is a 456-bed tertiary care university-affiliated medical center licensed by the California Department of Public Health, operated by San Bernardino County, and governed by the Board of Supervisors. It is ARMC’s mission, in an environment of learning and innovation, to serve our diverse community with high-quality, compassionate care. The hospital, in Colton, California, is a hub for advanced medicine and medical education, including, but not limited to the Edward G. Hirschman Regional Burn Center, the Dev A. GnanaDev Trauma Center, a comprehensive stroke center, an inpatient behavioral health center, neonatal intensive care unit, women’s health and maternal-fetal medicine, orthopedics, five primary care centers, and more. ARMC also provides more than 40 outpatient specialty care services. ARMC is helping to achieve the countywide vision by addressing the community’s wellness and educational needs. ARMC is the primary teaching hospital for the California University of Science and Medicine (CUSM). The university welcomed its first class of students in 2018. For more information on CUSM, visit https://cusm.edu/. For more information about ARMC, visit https://www.arrowheadregional.org/.