Summary
Michelle Miller is a senior healthcare IT executive with over 27 years of experience and a decade in senior leadership roles, currently leading product management for Optum Insight’s clinical data interoperability portfolio from Kansas City. She is a recognized HL7 FHIR leader—an elected Patient Care co-chair and named contributor/editor in FHIR R4 and R5—who shapes international interoperability standards and speaks regularly at industry events. Michelle has led large, cross-functional teams building cloud-native, big-data platforms at Cerner and Optum, translating complex clinical workflows into scalable data foundations that power analytics, quality measurement, and decision support. Her background started in hands-on software engineering and architecture, where she filed four patents and helped define C++ standards, giving her rare depth across code, product, and operations. She also trains and coaches leaders, teaching Crucial Conversations and leadership development, and is known for bridging clinician needs and engineering rigor to deliver auditable, standards-based solutions.
10 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree Computer Science at Iowa State University
High School, High School at Millard North High School