Baptist Memorial Health Care creates new position to lead AI and digital innovation

MEMPHIS, Tenn., June 18, 2026– Baptist Memorial Health Care has hired Debbie Sweet as the system director of digital solutions and innovation, a new role for the 25-hospital health care system headquartered in Memphis, Tennessee.

This position oversees the implementation and integration of innovative digital solutions, including AI, within Baptist Memorial Health Care's IT services department.

“We are excited to have Debbie join the Baptist Technology Services team,” said Tom Barnett, chief information and digital officer for Baptist Memorial. “She will be a key leader at the intersection of data, digital, workflow and patient care. Her previous experience with health care data warehousing and analytics, along with her clinical application background and capability to apply digital strategies, will help Baptist Memorial accelerate in such areas as artificial intelligence and intelligent automation.”

Sweet has more than 20 years of experience with provider, payer, pharmaceutical, biotechnology and health care consulting. She has led large-scale data and AI portfolios, data and analytics strategy, cloud and artificial intelligence initiatives, and digital transformation and governance across complex health care organizations, including health care systems, academic medical centers and clinical research teams.

Sweet has held multiple leadership positions, including serving as practice lead of healthcare and wellness and director of data strategy for Wavicle Data Solutions. She also served as senior manager and managing director of applied intelligence – health and life sciences for Accenture. Sweet has a Bachelor of Arts in economics and management from Albion College and a Master of Business Administration in healthcare management from the University of Phoenix.

Baptist Memorial Health Care is one of the country’s largest not-for-profit health care systems and the largest provider of Medicaid in the region. Consistently ranking among the top integrated health care networks in the country, Baptist Memorial comprises 25 affiliate hospitals in West Tennessee, North and Central Mississippi and East Arkansas; a freestanding emergency department; more than 7,000 affiliated physicians; Baptist Medical Group, a multispecialty physician group with more than 1,500 providers in 50 specialties; Baptist Cancer Center; home, hospice and psychiatric care; walk-in and urgent care clinics; a network of surgery, rehabilitation and other outpatient centers; and an education system that includes Baptist Health Sciences University and a college of osteopathic medicine. Baptist Memorial employs more than 24,000 people, and in fiscal year 2024 contributed more than $388 million in community benefit and uncompensated care to the communities it serves. For more information, please visit www.baptistonline.org or follow us on Facebook, Instagram or LinkedIn.com. 

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