Andrew H. Watt, MD
CIO, CMIO
Southern New Hampshire Health System
Speaker/Panelist 2015
Dr. Andrew Watt prefers to be thought of as the Chief End‐User instead of just the CIO/CMIO and VP of IT and Services at Southern New Hampshire Health System. In addition to IT work, he works as a Board Certified Attending Physician in the Emergency Department of the Hospital.
Dr. Watt started programming computers in primary school and wrote his first medical application when he was a college summer intern at a Boston hospital. After attending the College of the Holy Cross, he worked in clinical software development for MEDITECH. Dr. Watt continued contract programming work while attending the University of Massachusetts, School of Medicine. Dr. Watt completed his clinical training at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Emergency Medicine.
During the past 6 years as CIO for the Southern New Hampshire Health System, he has worked with his team to increase the automation and clinical sophistication of health care based IT systems.
Dr. Watt is very excited to be a CIO and Provider during the coming years of unprecedented change in health care.