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He will be replaced by his son-in-law and Fisher & Paykel Healthcare general manager Brad Porter.
The companies are shaping their future plans for cybersecurity risk management, patient safety data and other health IT use cases.
The EHR vendors are each adding new apps to their developer programs and marketplaces targeting referral management, personalized medicine and wound care, respectively.
Can the innovation be exported to other healthcare systems?
It will utilise Salesforce's Health Cloud platform to provide real-time access to health information.
The newest IBM X-Force Cost of a Data Breach Report also shows healthcare organizations have the longest breach cycle of any industry, requiring nearly 11 months to identify and contain security incidents.
The collaboration, which will see the health systems working with deidentified data for algorithm development and validation, will focus on patient outcomes and aim toward "personalized, predictive and proactive medicine."
Dr. Chris Gallagher, a cardiologist and CEO of SOC Telemed, sees "the power of telemedicine to change patients' lives and make a real difference to hospitals' bottom lines."