Cone Health Names Chief Technology Officer

This person will put the ever-faster pace of technology to work at Cone Health.

Greensboro – Suresh Krishnan has joined Cone Health as chief technology officer. Krishnan’s primary focus at Cone Health is leading the technology teams that provide the tools and services enabling Cone Health to deliver the best health care possible. 

Krishnan comes to Cone Health from Quisitive, a digital technology consulting firm where he was chief technology officer. Krishnan has worked for several health networks. Most recently, he was vice president and chief technology officer of Lisle, Illinois-based Amita Health from 2016 to 2018.  

Suresh Krishnan, Chief Technology Officer

Krishnan’s passion is to embrace AI to improve clinical processes using technology. For example, AI could personalize a patient’s care plan. A care plan is essentially a roadmap of what ails someone to the steps along the path to treatment and, hopefully, restoring health and wellness. “Moving to a model where customized plans are based on generative AI and trained AI models from similar patients and similar care settings is where the future is,” Krishnan says. 

Krishnan holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree (with honors) from the University of Madras, Chennai, India. He has earned certificates in internet security, project management, and lean and Six Sigma in health care.

Krishnan was named one of Becker’s Healthcare’s Top 100 CIOs in Hospitals and Health Systems in 2016.