Taya Irizarry PhD RN-BC

I'm a PhD prepared Nurse with expertise in product management where information technology powered by advanced analytics supports improved on-going patient and provider decision-making. I have over a decade of experience in numerous healthcare roles from Care Team Member to Healthcare Consumer Technology Researcher, and currently serving as a Healthcare Analytic Product Director at Highmark Health, a Pay-vider, where I lead a team of Clinical Strategic Designers, Data Scientists, Data Engineers and Software designers. We collectively build and deliver analytic products that power healthcare journey support services via omni-channel platform orchestration.

• Einhorn J, Murphy AR, Rogal SS, Suffoletto B, Irizarry T, Rollman BL, Forman DE, Muldoon MF. Automated Messaging Program to Facilitate Systematic Home Blood Pressure Monitoring: Qualitative Analysis of Provider Interviews
  JMIR Cardio 2023;7:e51316 doi: 10.2196/51316PMID: 38048147PMCID: 10728784
• Nguyen C, Dew MA, Irizarry T, McNulty M, Rennick J, Knäuper B, Descoteaux A, Grenier A, Jeannot L, Foster BJ, DeVito Dabbs AJ; all TAKE-IT TOO Investigators. Promoting medication adherence from the perspective of adolescent and young adult kidney transplant recipients, parents, and health care professionals: A TAKE-IT TOO study. Pediatr Transplant. 2020 Aug;24(5):e13709. doi: 10.1111/petr.13709. Epub 2020 May 10. PMID: 32388916; PMCID: PMC7392786.
• Irizarry, T., J. Shoemake, M. L. Nilsen, S. Czaja, S. Beach, and A. DeVito Dabbs. Patient Portals as a Tool for Health Care Engagement: A Mixed-Method Study of Older Adults with Varying Levels of Health Literacy and Prior Patient Portal Use. J Med Internet Res. 2017;19 (3):e99. doi: 10.2196/jmir.7099. PubMed PMID: 28360022.
• Irizarry T, Barton AJ. A sociotechnical approach to successful electronic health record implementation: five best practices for clinical nurse specialists. Clin Nurse Spec. 2013 Nov-Dec; 27(6):283-5. doi: 10.1097/NUR.0b013e3182a872e3. PMID: 24107749.

• Irizarry T, (April 2017). Nurse knowledge and utilization of Health Information Exchange Tools to enhance the medication reconciliation process in the in-patient setting. What more can be done? Presentation for ClinicalConnect HIE of Western Pennsylvania.
• Irizarry T, Nilsen M, Shoemake J, Callan J, Beach S, Czaja S, DeVito Dabbs A (March 2017). The possibilities and limitations of a patient portal as a tool for older adults’ engagement in their healthcare. Symposium Presentation at The Patient, the Practitioner, and the Computer Conference, Alpert Medical School, Brown University Providence, Rhode Island.

RN.0197708 Colorado 2010 - 2016

RN.686605 Pennsylvania 2016 - present

ANCC Board Certification: Nursing Informatics 2017 - present

• American Nurses Association (ANA)
• American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA)
• Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS)
• Society for Implementation Research Collaboration (SIRC)