Crain’s Chicago Business recognizes Dr. Boyd as a leader in health care technology
Introduction
Andrew Boyd, BHIS professor, has been named one of Crain’s Chicago Business’ 2025 Notable Leaders in Health Care Technology. The list recognizes the innovations of 27 Chicago-area executives, founders and advisers who use technologies to support health care systems and improve patient outcomes nationwide.
In his positions as UIC’s Associate Vice Chancellor for Research and the University of Illinois hospital system’s Associate Chief Health Information Officer, Boyd oversees research data, IT and innovation teams with a $6.9 million budget and more than 100 staff. He manages data governance for more than 45,000 students, faculty and staff and has advanced secure data-sharing policies.
“UIC and University of Illinois Health does transforming research to improve the lives of patients and research participants,” Boyd said. “The expansion of research enables a wide range of faculty and researchers to transform health care.”
In 2020, Boyd integrated Epic electronic health records into UIC’s research infrastructure, fueling a ninefold increase in clinical studies and an eightfold increase in research participants from 2020 to 2025.
He is also part of an interdisciplinary team using artificial intelligence to unify data from a broad range of health professions and create novel datasets.
Boyd is a fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics, the American Medical Informatics Association and the New York Academy of Medicine.