Dr. Thomas Powell MD, MS

I'm Thomas Powell, MD MS, a physician executive, career Chief Medical Information Officer, and founder of CMIO, LLC (Comprehensive Medical Informatics & Optimization). I have led informatics programs across academic medical centers, children's hospitals, community hospitals, and integrated delivery networks. I now consult nationally to health systems, health IT companies, universities, and industry. My forthcoming book (November 3, 2026), "The Diagnostician: American Healthcare Is Sick, Misdiagnosed, and Getting Worse; It's Time to Call the Doctor", brings this work together. It applies the physician's clinical method to the health system: taking its history, examining care delivery, evaluating evidence, developing a differential diagnosis, and creating a treatment and follow-up pl...