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Curriculum Vitae
Date Prepared: July 1, 2011
Name: John D. Halamka MD
Office Address: 1135 Tremont, Boston, MA 02120
Work E-Mail: [email protected]
Place of Birth: Des Moines, Iowa
Education1984 BS Medical Microbiology Stanford University Distinction1984 BA Public Policy Stanford University Honors and Distinction1986-89 Bioengineering University of California Berkeley 1993 MD MSTP Program University of California San Francisco 1997 SM Medical Informatics Harvard/MIT HST1997 Clinical Effectiveness Program Harvard School of Public Health 2011 MS Masters of Science (Honorary) Harvard University
Postdoctoral Training7/93-6/94 Intern Emergency Medicine Harbor-UCLA Medical Center7/94-6/96 Resident Emergency Medicine Harbor-UCLA Medical Center7/96-6/97 Fellow Informatics Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Faculty Academic Appointments7/96-6/99 Instructor Medicine Harvard Medical School7/99-6/02 Assistant Medicine Harvard Medical School7/02-3/11 Associate Medicine Harvard Medical School4/11- Full Professor Medicine Harvard Medical School
Appointments at Hospitals7/96- Associate Medicine Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Other Professional Positions7/81-6/92 CEO Ibis Research Labs, Inc.7/05- Director Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative7/05-6/09 Director ePocrates7/08- Director AnvitaHealth7/10- Director Personal Genome Project
Major Administrative Leadership PositionsLocal1997-1999 Executive Director CareGroup Center for Quality and Value1998- Chief Information Officer CareGroup2000- Associate Dean for Technology Harvard Medical School2001-2007 Chief Information Officer Harvard Clinical Research Institute 2002- Chief Information Officer Harvard Medical School
Regional1999- Chairman New England Healthcare Exchange Network
National 2005- Chairman US Health Information Technology Standards Panel2009- Co-Chair US HIT Standards Committee, HHS
Committee ServiceLocal1996-1997 Emergency Medicine Computing Group CareGroup 1997-1998 Emergency Department Quality Improvement Task Force BIDMC 1997-1998 Co-chair2006 Throughput Task Force BIDMC 2006 Co-chair2007- Clinical Information Systems Steering Committee BIDMC 2007 Co-chair2011 CRICO Technology Task Force
Regional1998- CIO Forum Massachusetts Health Data Consortium 2002- Chair2007- Eastern Massachusetts Healthcare Initiative IT Workgroup 2009- Chair2010- Massachusetts State HIE Ad Hoc Workgroup 2010- Co-chair2011- IMPACT Challenge Grant Advisory Board
National1996-1998 National Working Group on the Emergency Department Record CDC2003 Committee on the Future of Emergency Medicine, Institute of Medicine 2007- Healthcare Information Technology Expert Panel, National Quality Forum2007-2008 Google Health Advisory Council2008- Future Systems Technology Advisory Panel, Social Security Administration2009 Science Board Technology Workgroup, Food and Drug Administration
2009- President's Council of Advisors Science and Technology HIT Workgroup, Executive Office of the President2010- Institute of Medicine Learning Healthcare System Committee2010- Dartmouth TISH Advisory Board2010- HHS SHARP Advisory Board 2011- President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology Workgroup
Professional Societies1993- American College of Emergency Physicians 1994 Chair, Section on Emergency Medicine Informatics1996- Society for Academic Emergency Medicine1996- American Medical Informatics Association 2009 Fellow2000- College of Healthcare Information Management Executives2002- Health Information Management Systems Society
Grant Review Activities2001 Informatics Training Grant Study Section National Library of Medicine2006-2009 Informatics Grant Study Section National Institutes of Health2009- Project Health Design Robert Wood Johnson Foundation2010- New Zealand Innovation Challenge
Editorial ActivitiesReviewer2005- Journal of the American Medical Informatics AssociationOther1980-1984 Technical Editor, Computer Language Magazine
Honors and Prizes1980 National Merit Scholarship California Medical Association 1983 Member Phi Beta Kappa1984 Member Sigma Pi Alpha1996 Commendation for Service County of Los Angeles Board of Supervisors1997 Best Informatics Presentation of the Year National Library of Medicine 1997 Martin J. Epstein Award American Medical Informatics Association 2001 Most Innovative Companies in America (7th) Cap Gemini2001 Paper of the year Health Information Management Systems Society2003 eWeek Top 10 Technology Innovators 2006 Modern Healthcare 13th most influential physician in the US2007 Louis J. Sullivan Award for Innovation 2007 CIO of the Year Massachusetts Technology Leadership Council2009 University of Pennsylvania Lubrow Lecture2010 CIO of the Year Loyola University
2010 National Library of Medicine Leiter Lecture2011 HIMSS 50 Most Influential Technologists of the Past 50 Years2011 Information Week 25 Most Influential CIOs2011 e-Prescribing Evangelist of the Year
Report of Funded and Unfunded Projects2003-2006 Principal Investigator, N01-LM-3-3515, Multi-protocol Ensemble for Surveillance and Health, National Library of Medicine
2004-2009 Principal Investigator, National Center for Biomedical Computing, Informatics for Integrating Biology to the Bedside
Report of Local Teaching and Training07/23/96 Mushroom Toxicology (Medical Student Emergency Medicine elective) Harvard Medical School
09/18/96 Internet-based Medical Education Department of Medicine, BIDMC
09/26/96 Medical Resources on the Internet Department of Medicine, BIDMC
11/25/96 Internet-based Medical Records Department of Medicine, BIDMC
01/16/97 HMS ACLS Course Harvard Medical School
02/10/97 Building Interactive Web Pages I Department of Medicine, BIDMC
02/24/97 Building Interactive Web Pages II Department of Medicine, BIDMC
02/25/97 Java vs. ActiveX Web technologies Department of Medicine, BIDMC
02/27/97 Building Interactive Web Pages III 6.072, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
03/26/97 New Frontiers in Medical Informatics Department of Medicine, BIDMC
04/10/97 Informatics and Advanced Technology Department of Medicine, BIDMC
05/01/97 Virtual Integration of the BIDMC Department of Medicine, BIDMC05/05/97 Fundamentals of Cryptography Department of Medicine, BIDMC
05/12/97 Health Object Architectures Department of Medicine, BIDMC
05/16/97 Integrating Health Care Delivery Systems Department of Medicine, BIDMC
06/10/97 Urological emergencies (Medical Student Emergency Medicine elective) Harvard Medical School
06/20/97 Legacy System Interfacing Department of Medicine, BIDMC
08/27/97 Reengineering Emergency Department flow Department of Medicine, BIDMC
09/09/97 Mushroom Toxicology ((Medical Student Emergency Medicine elective) Harvard Medical School
09/27/97 Medical Records on the Internet Department of Medicine, BIDMC
05/07/98 Implementing a National Security Architecture 6.072, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
09/17/98 Best Practices in the use of the internet/Grand Rounds Department of Medicine, BIDMC 09/23/98 Sharing Clinical Information via Intranets Department of Medicine, BIDMC
10/26/98` Physician Resources on the Internet/Grand Rounds Department of Medicine, BID-Needham
12/02/98 QCARE Harvard School of Public Health
12/12/98 Connecting Payers, Providers and Patients IT Course, Harvard School of Public Health
04/22/99 HIPAA and emerging technologies 6.072, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
07/09/99 Leadership in Action Seminar Organizational Development, BIDMC
09/17/99 Web programming course Center for Clinical Computing, BIDMC
09/21/99 Web programming course Center for Clinical Computing, BIDMC
10/15/99 Leadership in Action Seminar Organizational Development, BIDMC
10/27/99 CareGroup Intranet Resources/Grand Rounds Department of Medicine, BID-Needham
02/29/00 QCARE Harvard School of Public Health
03/10/00 IT for Occupational Health New England Baptist Hospital
03/09/00 Internet approaches to public health data collection IT Course, Harvard School of Public Health
03/20/00 Security implications of provider and consumer web portals 6.072, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
03/23/00 Overview of Medical Informatics HST 921, Harvard Medical School
03/27/00 Enhancing Medication Reliability Department of Medicine, Deaconess Waltham
04/04/00 Capturing Point of Care Information Department of Medicine, BIDMC
04/06/00 IT approaches to medication reliability Department of Medicine, BIDMC
04/18/00 Connecting Payers, Providers and Patients Harvard Business School
04/26/00 Overview of CareGroup Web technology Department of Medicine, BIDMC 04/26/00 Connecting Payers, Providers and Patients/Grand Rounds Department of Surgery, BIDMC
06/01/00 Internet and Society Harvard University 08/10/00 Building Large Databases Department of Medicine, BIDMC 09/06/00 HIPAA and Compliance for the physician Department of Medicine, BIDMC
9/23/00 eBusiness in New England Harvard Business School
10/06/00 The future of eBusiness Department of Medicine, BIDMC
10/23/00 Decision Support in IT/Grand Rounds Department of Radiology, BWH
12/6/00 Medical Intranets/Grand Rounds Department of Medicine, BID-Needham
12/08/00 HIPAA Strategies for Payer organizations Department of Medicine, BIDMC
12/15/00 Update in Internal Medicine Department of Medicine, BIDMC
12/27/00 Community Physician Computing/Grand Rounds Fenway Community Health
02/04/01 Going Digital at HMS/Department Chairs Retreat Harvard Medical School
4/26/01 Overview of Medical Informatics HST 921, Harvard Medical School
4/30/01 Building an IT infrastructure for Research Partners Research Council
05/04/01 Distance Learning at HMS/Faculty Development Seminar Harvard Medical School
05/08/01 Internet and Society Harvard University
06/04/01 Distance Learning strategies Harvard University ABCD Committee
08/03/01 Data mining Clinical Effectiveness Course, Harvard School of Public Health
08/15/01 Managing Healthcare IT projects Clinical Effectiveness Course, Harvard School of Public Health
8/08/01 Hospital Information Systems/Grand Rounds Department of Medicine, BID-Needham
08/29/01 Distance Learning Resources at HMS (Medical Student Orientation) Harvard Medical School
09/13/01 Grand Rounds – The future of IT at NEBH New England Baptist Hospital
09/14/01 Distance Learning Faculty Development/Grand Rounds Department of Medicine, BWH
10/01/01 Wireless computing for Hospitals/Grand Rounds Informatics, CHB
10/23/01 QCARE Harvard School of Public Health
10/24/01 Mushroom Toxicology/Grand Rounds Department of Emergency Medicine, BIDMC
12/02/01 Connecting Payers, Providers and Patients HPM238C, John F Kennedy School of Government
12/04/01 Update in Internal Medicine Department of Medicine, BIDMC
12/04/01 Medical Information on the Web: Blessing or Curse? Pri-Med
12/07/01 MyCourses Faculty Development Seminar Harvard Medical School
12/07/01 Using the Web to Connect Payers, Providers and Patients New England College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine
01/25/02 MyCourses Faculty Development Seminar Harvard Medical School
02/08/02 MyCourses Faculty Development Seminar Harvard Medical School
03/12/02 Connecting Payers, Providers and Patients HPM238C, John F Kennedy School of Government
03/14/02 Planning the Future of Biomedical Informatics HST Advisory Council
03/14/02 Overview of Medical Informatics HST 921, Harvard Medical School
03/16/02 Hand Held Overview Harvard Pilgrim Healthcare
03/18/02 Cardiology IT Course Department of Medicine, BIDMC
03/18/02 MyCourses Faculty Development Seminar Harvard Medical School
03/19/02 Primary Care Clerkship Harvard Pilgrim Healthcare 04/10/02 MyCourses HST Graduate Committee
04/22/02 MyCourses Faculty Development Seminar Cambridge Health Alliance
04/26/02 Emerging Technologies and Healthcare Innovations Congress New England Baptist Hospital
04/30/02 The Application of Computer Technology in Clinical Research Clinical Scholars Program, Harvard Medical School
05/17/02 HMS Faculty Workshop Harvard Medical School
05/31/02 MyCourses Faculty Development Seminar Harvard School of Dental Medicine
06/12/02 MyCourses Erasmus Medical Center visiting Harvard Medical School
11/12/02 Leadership Development for Physicians in Academic Health Centers IT Course, Harvard School of Public Health
02/11/03 QCARE Seminar Harvard School of Public Health
04/02/03 Connecting Payers, Providers and Patients/Grand Rounds Department of Anesthesia, BIDMC
04/17/03 Information Technology in Healthcare System of the Future HST 921, Harvard Medical School
05/03/03 Connecting Payers, Providers and Patients HPM238C, John F Kennedy School of Government
11/17/03 Connecting Payers, Providers and Patients/Grand Rounds Informatics, CHB
01/20/04 MyCourses Harvard Law School
03/12/04 Connecting Payers, Providers and Patients HPM238C, John F Kennedy School of Government 03/16/04 HIPAA Regulations and its Impact on Clinical Research Clinical Scholars Program, Harvard Medical School 01/26/07 Educational Technologies Harvard Macy Course
5/23/07 Connecting Payers, Providers and Patients Harvard Medical International Geneva
2/7/08 Connecting Payers, Providers and Patients Boston University MBA Program
3/19/08 RFID Technologies Massachusetts Technology Leadership Council
3/28/08 Personal Health Records Connected Health Conference
4/1/08 Connecting Payers, Providers and Patients Keynote Speaker, Intersystems
5/1/08 IT and Quality Improvement HSPH Quality Improvement Course
5/29/08 Connecting Payers, Providers and Patients Harvard Medical International Geneva
6/1/08 Risk Management and IT CRICO Annual meeting
6/4/08 Connecting Payers, Providers and Patients Boston University MBA Program
3/4/09 Connecting Payers, Providers and Patients HSPH IT for Healthcare Services
3/4/09 Connecting Payers, Providers and Patients Boston University MBA Program
4/14/09 The Art and Science of Medicine MIT
4/16/09 Healthcare IT MIT Media Lab
5/14/09 Data Warehousing Harvard School of Public Health Quality Course
5/20/09 Life as a Healthcare CIO MIT CIO Conference
6/18/09 Disruptive Innovation Harvard Macy Course
6/24/09 Transforming the Massachusetts Economy Boston University MBA Program
10/2/09 Connecting Payers, Providers and Patients Harvard ABCD
11/5/09 Connecting Payers, Providers and Patients Harvard Board of Fellows
11/10/09 Connecting Payers, Providers and Patients Suffolk University
11/16/09 Connecting Payers, Providers and Patients HSPH PHAT Symposium
11/17/09 The Obama Stimulus Plan Boston Business Roundtable
12/1/09 Connecting Payers, Providers and Patients MIT 6.037
1/19/10 Innovations in Educational IT Harvard Macy Course
2/16/10 Mushroom Toxicology BIDMC Grand Rounds
2/17/10 Connecting Patients Providers and Payers Northeastern Informatics Program
4/14/10 eHealth Suffolk University 4/14/10 Meaningful Use Mt. Auburn Hospital Grand Rounds
5/7/10 Managing Healthcare Delivery Harvard Business School
3/23/11 Surgery Grand Rounds Beth Israel Deaconess
3/23/11 Accountable Care Organizations Boston University MBA Program
3/24/11 The Role of the CIO HST 921
5/21/11 The National Healthcare IT Plan IDEAS Conference
Report of Regional, National and International Invited Teaching and Presentations
Regional
04/08/97 Building Secure Web-based Medical Records RSA/Security Dynamics
09/22/99 Connecting Payers, Providers and Patients Massachusetts Health Data Consortium
09/29/99 Legal aspects of e-commerce Boston Bar Association, Boston 10/20/99 Convergence of Healthcare and the Internet Boston Bar Association, Boston
11/10/99 The Internet and Your Practice Massachusetts Medical Society
12/9/99 State of the art in e-health Babson College, Wellesley
02/16/00 Intranets for Integrated Delivery Systems Massachusetts Health Data Consortium
02/26/00 HIPAA in New England Boston Teaching Hospital Chief Financial Officers (BOTHFO)
03/15/00 Administrative Simplification in Mass. Health Care Industry Massachusetts Department of Health and Human Services
03/16/00 Risk adjusted Quality, Performance and Outcomes measurement Massachusetts Rate Setting Commission
05/03/00 Connecting Payers, Providers and Patients Mass Div. of Health Care Finance and Policy
05/19/00 The business case for HIPAA Healthcare Financial Management Association
09/15/00 Nursing Informatics Overview Boston Area Nurses Association, Boston
11/9/00 Fundamentals of eBusiness Babson College, Wellesley 11/27/00 eBusiness Management Boston University, Boston
06/05/01 Medical Informatics Retreat Millennium
06/08/01 CIO Forum – Provider Order Entry Meditech
06/12/01 Reducing Healthcare Costs with IT Massachusetts Business Roundtable
06/20/01 Improving Care Quality with IT/Grand Rounds Department of Medicine, Good Samaritan Hospital
09/06/01 Grand Rounds – Provider Order Entry Mount Auburn Hospital
09/15/01 Handheld computing for physicians Meditech
10/22/01 Distance Learning in Medicine Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover
10/25/01 Building a regional resource for healthcare data sharing Johns Hopkins Medical School, Baltimore
11/15/01 Regional Approaches to HIPAA Mass Health Information Management Association
04/12/02 Secure Messaging & Secure File Transfer Massachusetts Health Data Consortium
05/30/02 CIO Retreat Massachusetts Health Data Consortium
06/06/02 Executive Council Meditech
06/11/02 The Revenue Cycle Process Massachusetts Association of Patient Account Management (MAPAM)
02/07/03 CIO Forum Massachusetts Health Data Consortium
03/27/03 CIO Forum Massachusetts Health Data Consortium
05/03/03 The Future of Healthcare Massachusetts Medical Society
11/07/03 New England Technology Summit Future Forward, Portsmouth
11/20/03 CIO Forum Massachusetts Health Data Consortium
1/22/04 CIO Forum Massachusetts Health Data Consortium
4/30/04 Physician Practice Integration Massachusetts Medical Society
4/7/07 Connecting Payers, Providers and Patients/Grand Rounds Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover
4/27/07 Knowledge Management Massachusetts Medical Society
1/18/08 Connecting Payers, Providers and Patients Healthcare Financial Management Association
1/25/08 Connecting Payers, Providers and Patients Massachusetts Health Information Management Association
2/8/08 Personal Health Records Massachusetts Health Data Consortium Annual meeting
4/11/08 C. Everett Koop lecture Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover
06/5/08 Connecting Payers, Providers and Patients Massachusetts Technology Leadership Council
6/6/08 Connecting Payers, Providers and Patients Massachusetts Health Data Consortium Annual Meeting
10/7/08 Mushroom Toxicology New England Regional Poison Control Center
10/17/08 Personal Health Records HIMSS New England
10/17/08 Google Health Massachusetts Health Data Consortium
10/23/08 Connecting Payers, Providers and Patients Massachusetts Technology Leadership Council
5/13/09 Connecting Payers, Providers and Patients Harvard Business School Symposium
7/15/09 Connecting Payers, Providers and Patients MIT Symposium
7/23/09 Healthcare eCommerce Harvard University
2/9/10 Meaningful Use Manatt Symposium
2/22/10 The Healthcare IT Stimulus Boston Ob/Gyn Society
3/19/10 Achieving Meaningful Use Healthcare Finance Management Association
3/31/10 Connecting Patients Providers and Payers Boston University
5/6/10 Quality, Safety, Efficiency and Healthcare IT Harvard School of Public Health
7/30/10 Accountable Care Organizations Massachusetts Medical Society
4/25/11 Quality, Safety, Efficiency and Healthcare IT Harvard School of Public Health PHAT Conference
5/9/11 The Massachusetts HIT Plan Governor’s HIT Conference
5/12/11 Reducing Disparities with Healthcare IT Reede Scholars Conference
5/13/11 Improving Quality while Controlling Costs AIM ConferenceNational
05/20/97 The Internet for Emergency Physicians Society for Academic Emergency Medicine
10/26/97 Components of a Clinical Computing System American Medical Informatics Association, Washington
10/26/97 Barriers to implementing medical records on the Internet American Medical Informatics Association, Washington10/29/97 Clinical Computing at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center American Medical Informatics Association, Washington
04/15/98 Use of the Internet for transmission of clinical information National Heart Attack Alert Program
05/17/98 Emerging Internet Technologies for Physicians Society for Academic Emergency Medicine
05/19/98 Medical Informatics and Emergency Medicine Society for Academic Emergency Medicine 11/07/98 Clinical Computing Overview Course American Medical Informatics Association, Washington
11/10/98 Managing Care via Intranets American Medical Informatics Association, Washington
11/15/98 Healthcare Intranet Symposium Sun Microsystems
7/15/99 Improving Quality via the Internet Picker Institute Symposium
11/4/99 Physician Report Cards on the Web HBSI Physician Leadership Forum, Washington
11/07/99 Clinical Computing Overview Course American Medical Informatics Association, Washington1/27/00 Connecting Payers, Providers and Patients Association of American Medical Colleges, Washington
4/17/00 Measuring Performance Picker Institute Symposium
7/13/00 Outcomes, Performance & Quality Measures Picker Institute 6th Annual Symposium
08/29/00 Connecting Payers, Providers and Patients Towards and Electronic Patient Record (TEPR)
09/15/00 An Overview of Medical Information on the Web Pri-Med 11/05/00 Clinical Computing Overview Course American Medical Informatics Association, Washington
12/07/00 Connecting Payers, Providers and Patients Institute for Healthcare Improvement Annual Meeting, Orlando
01/23/01 Informatics on the cutting edge Intermountain Health Care, Salt Lake City
03/19/01 A national model for secure medical record exchange Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
05/08/01 Recent developments in medical informatics Towards and Electronic Patient Record (TEPR) 05/10/01 Leadership strategies in IT Towards and Electronic Patient Record (TEPR)
05/11/01 Mobile and Web approaches to distance learning Wake Forest University
06/22/01 New England Health EDI Network HIPAA Case Study National HIPAA Forum, Washington
7/15/01 eHealth Course Association of American Medical Colleges, Washington
8/22/01 HIPAA Transaction sets National HIPAA Forum, Washington
10/2/01 HIPAA Case Study – Return on Investment College of Health Information Management Executives, Washington
10/03/01 Computing for Physicians/Grand Rounds First Health, North Carolina
10/04/01 Pursuing Perfection Institute for Healthcare Improvement
10/19/01 What the CMO needs to ask the CIO VHA
10/26/01 New England Health EDI Network National HIPAA Forum
11/04/01 Clinical Computing Overview Course American Medical Informatics Association, Washington
11/12/01 Mobile and Wireless Computing Towards and Electronic Patient Record (TEPR)
12/03/01 CareGroup’s Total Enterprise Approach to Security Towards and Electronic Patient Record (TEPR)
12/11/01 Connecting Payers, Providers and Patients Institute for Healthcare Improvement Annual Meeting
12/12/01 Approaching the Ideal in Primary Care Institute for Healthcare Improvement Annual Meeting
01/28/02 HIMSS 2002 Annual Conference Healthcare Information Management Systems Society (HIMSS), Chicago
03/05/02 Personal Health Records Estes Park Institute, Colorado
05/08/02 Connecting Payers, Providers and Patients Estes Park Institute, Colorado
08/04/02 Connecting Payers, Providers and Patients American Board of Internal Medicine Foundation, Washington
11/09/02 Clinical Computing Overview Course American Medical Informatics Association, Washington
01/09/03 Technology Assessment and Implementation in the 21st Century Society for Technology in Anesthesia Annual meeting (STA)
02/09/03 HIMSS 2003 Conference Healthcare Information Management Systems Society (HIMSS), Chicago
02/26/03 Connecting Patients, Providers and Payers Regenstrief Institute, Indianapolis
03/04/03 Spring Conference Keynote Information Week, Washington
03/11/03 Workshop on Engineering and the Health Care System National Academy Engineering (NAE)
04/22/03 The Academic Physician Executive American Board of Quality Assurance, Washington
05/16/03 Healthcare Business and IT Summit 2003 Gartner, Washington DC
06/01/03 Clinical IS and Data Standards for Academic Emergency Physicians Society for Academic Emergency Medicine
06/8/03 Enterprise Image Management 20th Symposium for Computer Applications in Radiology
11/14/03 Alliance Roundtable Commonwealth Fund, Washington
01/26/04 Progressive-Payer Integration World Health Congress
05/06/04 Technology-The Cutting Edge National Patient Safety Foundation
12/11/06 Connecting Payers, Providers and Patients Institute for Healthcare Improvement Annual Meeting
12/12/06 Approaching the Ideal in Primary Care Institute for Healthcare Improvement Annual Meeting
1/17/07 Provider Order Entry Towards and Electronic Patient Record (TEPR)
1/19/07 CIO Symposium Healthcare Information Management Systems Society (HIMSS), Chicago
1/19/07 HITSP Town Hall Healthcare Information Management Systems Society (HIMSS), Chicago
5/8/07 National Standards for e-Prescribing National Council of Prescription Drug Providers
5/15/07 Louis Sullivan Lecture Workgroup on Electronic Data Interchange
6/11/07 National Standards for Healthcare Keynote Speaker, Integrating the Heathcare Enterprise
6/12/07 Harmonizing Standards in the US American Health Information Community, Washington
12/11/07 Connecting Payers, Providers and Patients Institute for Healthcare Improvement Annual Meeting, Orlando
12/12/07 Approaching the Ideal in Primary Care Institute for Healthcare Improvement Annual Meeting, Orlando 1/22/08 HITSP's First Year American Health Information Community, Washington
1/30/08 Harmonizing Standards National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics, Washington
2/7/08 HITSP Town Hall Healthcare Information Management Systems Society (HIMSS), Chicago
4/17/08 Connecting Payers, Providers and Patients SAS Annual Meeting Keynote, Raleigh
4/28/08 Connecting Payers, Providers and Patients Department of Informatics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
4/30/08 Consumer Genomics BioIT World Keynote, Boston
6/3/08 Harmonizing Standards American Health Information Community, Washington
6/5/08 HITSP Town Meeting Webinar Health Information Technology Standards Panel
6/5/08 Connecting Payers, Providers and Patients Greater New York Hospital Association
6/12/08 ePrescribing National Association of Chain Drug Stores, Washington
6/12/08 Connecting Payers, Providers and Patients Government Healthcare IT
6/19/08 Connecting Payers, Providers and Patients eHealth Initiative
6/24/08 Connecting Payers, Providers and Patients Drug Information Association
7/14/08 Connecting Payers, Providers and Patients American Hospital Assocation
9/24/08 Connecting Payers, Providers and Patients EmTech
10/3/08 Connecting Payers, Providers and Patients SAS Annual Conference
10/7/08 High Performance Computing High Performance Computing Collaborative
10/28/08 IT for Clinical Research CDISC Keynote, Washington
11/3/08 Connecting Payers, Providers and Patients eCW National User Conference
11/6/08 Connecting Payers, Providers and Patients AMIA 10x10 Conference
11/12/08 Standards Harmonization American Health Information Community, Washington
12/1/08 American Health Information Community, Washington South Dakota Hospital Assocation
12/3/08 Standards Harmonization Kennedy School National Conference
12/10/08 Connecting Payers, Providers and Patients Institute for Healthcare Improvement Annual Conference
1/8/09 Standards Harmonization National eHealth Collaborative
1/27/09 Connecting Payers, Providers and Patients Premier Annual Meeting
3/19/09 Current Issues in Primary Care Pri-Med
3/24/09 Security in the Cloud VMWare Webcast
3/26/09 Industry Perspectives GE Healthcare
4/7/09 HITSP Town Hall Healthcare Information Management Systems Society (HIMSS), Chicago
4/7/09 The Economic Stimulus package Healthcare Information Management Systems Society (HIMSS), Chicago
4/21/09 The Economic Stimulus package California eHealth Collaborative4/22/09 Personal Health Records Health 2.0
4/23/09 Planning for the Stimulus SAS annual meeting
4/24/09 Connecting Payers, Providers and Patients Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise
4/27/09 High Performance Storage BioIT World
4/28/09 Standards harmonization National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics
4/29/09 High Performance Computing BioIT World
5/1/09 Personal Health Records Connected Health
5/5/09 Dispute Resolution National Mediation Board
5/7/09 Zubrow Lecture University of Pennsylvannia
6/2/09 Standards Harmonization National eHealth Collaborative, Washington
6/11/09 Connecting Payers, Providers and Patients SAS Webcast
6/18/09 Standards Harmonization HITSP Webcast
6/25/09 Connecting Payers, Providers and Patients Center for Health Transformation
7/1/09 Connecting Payers, Providers and Patients HIT Summit
9/9/09 Connecting Payers, Providers and Patients WEDI Board
9/9/09 Connecting Payers, Providers and Patients AIIM Board
9/11/09 Connecting Payers, Providers and Patients Colorado Hospital Association
9/14/09 Connecting Payers, Providers and Patients eCW National Conference
9/24/09 Privacy and Security Center for Democracy and Technology
9/28/09 Connecting Payers, Providers and Patients Continua Alliance
10/6/09 Standards Harmonization Massachusetts Health Data Consortium Healthmart
10/7/09 Standards Harmonization Continua Alliance
10/15/09 IT for Clinical Research CDISC Annual Meeting
10/15/09 IT for Quality National Quality Forum
10/21/09 Connecting Payers, Providers and Patients Ascension Health
10/22/09 Reactor Panel Connected Health
10/27/09 Connecting Payers, Providers and Patients HSPH Clinical Leaders Program
10/28/09 Connecting Payers, Providers and Patients CIMIT Innovation Congress
11/2/09 Connecting Payers, Providers and Patients HIMSS
11/18/09 Connecting Payers, Providers and Patients HSPH Clinical Leaders Program
1/13/10 The Interim Final Rule on Standards HIMSS
1/22/10 The Next Generation of Healthcare Standards HITSP Webinar
1/26/10 The National Healthcare IT Priorities Scottsdale Institute
2/5/10 Healthcare Information Exchange Strategy National HIE Summit
3/2/10 Standards Town Hall HIMSS
3/12/10 Connecting Patients Providers and Payers American Burn Association
3/31/10 Nationwide Health Information Network Arizona HIE
4/8/10 CIO of the Year Loyola University
4/15/10 Emerging Technologies Babson College Symposium
4/21/10 Genomics Bio-IT World
4/22/10 Transforming Data into Wisdom SAS
4/29/10 The Massachusetts Healthcare IT Plan Governor’s Conference
5/14/10 Healthcare IT Innovation Brookings Institution
6/18/10 Connecting Patients Providers and Payers Lucille Packard Children’s Hospital, Stanford
8/3/10 Public Health Informatics Centers for Disease Control
8/25/10 National Standards overview Health Information Management Systems Society
9/1/2010 The National Healthcare IT Program American Medical Informatics Association
9/13/10 What does HITECH and ACA mean for quality NICHQ Board of Directors
9/14//10 National Standards overview CCHIT Webinar
9/24/10 The National Healthcare IT Program Dell Annual Meeting
10/1/10 The National Healthcare IT Program Philips Healthcare CMIO Thought Leader Group
10/6/10 The National Healthcare IT Program New York Primary Care Information Project
10/13/10 The National Healthcare IT Program Society for Ob/Gyn Annual meeting
10/18/10 Innovation High Performance Computing Summit
10/22/10 Connecting Patients, Providers and Payers Partners Connected Health Symposium
10/25/10 ePrescribing Surescripts Annual Meeting
10/26/10 Knowledge Services North Atlantic Health Science Libraries
10/31/10 The Future of Healthcare IT eClinicalWorks National Meeting
11/4/10 Meaningful Use Health Information Management Systems Society
11/18/10 Connecting Patients, Providers and Payers Dallas Fort Worth Hospital Association
12/7/10 Connecting Patients, Providers and Payers Institute for Healthcare Improvement Annual meeting
2/7/11 Connecting Patients, Providers and Payers Town Hall of Cleveland Lecture
2/18/11 National Standards Overview National Research Council CMS Advisory Committee
3/7/11 Connecting Patients, Providers and Payers UptoDate Annual meeting
3/9/11 National Standards Overview Genetic Alliance
3/18/11 On the Road to Accountable Care Organizations Massachusetts Hospital Association
5/6/11 Connecting Patients, Providers, and Payers Patient Centered Computing Conference
5/23/11 The National Healthcare IT Plan GE Patient Safety Conference
6/13/11 Connecting Patients, Providers, and Payers National Conference for Executive Nurse Leaders
6/17/11 Beyond Meaningful Use Medical Administrators Conference
6/24/11 Connecting Patients, Providers, and Payers IHI Quality and Safety Course
6/28/11 Connecting Patients, Providers, and Payers HIMSS Pacific/Alaska Conference
International
03/09/98 Electronic Medical Record Infrastructure for Emergency Medicine Israeli Association of Emergency Medicine
08/15/98 Building healthcare intranets MedInfo ’98 Seoul, Korea
03/26/01 Building a national IT infrastructure for health Taiwan Ministry of Health
04/30/01 The Informatics of Managed Care Japan Ministry of Health
05/07/01 Web v. Smart Card approaches for lifetime medical records Korea Ministry of Health
11/13/01 Distance Learning Strategies Cambridge University, UK
12/03/03 Innovative Bio-Information Technologies The Norwegian Research and Technology Forum
12/5/03 Connecting Payers, Providers and Patients Qulturum, Jönköping County Council, Sweden2/3/09 The US HIT Strategy UK National Health Service
2/9/09 The US HIT Strategy Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare Tokyo, Japan
2/10/09 Connecting Payers, Providers and Patients Fujitsu Research, Tokyo Japan
2/12/09 Connecting Payers, Providers and Patients Nagoya Hospital, Japan
2/13/09 The US HIT Strategy Kyoto University, Japan
8/6/09 The Obama HIT Plan Kyoto University, Japan
10/1/09 The US HIT Strategy UK National Health Service
10/13/09 Connecting Payers, Providers and Patients Erasmus Medical Center, Netherlands
1/14/10 Program for the Chiefs of Services (International) Harvard School of Public Health
1/15/10 Quality Improvement with Healthcare IT (International) Institute of Healthcare Improvement
1/27-1/29/10 Healthcare IT Strategy Course (International) Harvard School of Public Health
3/2/10 The US Heatlhcare IT Strategy Japanese Association of Health Information Systems
3/5/10 Connecting Patients Providers and Payers Tokyo University
6/8/10 The US Healthcare IT Strategy UK National Health Service Symposium
9/30/10 Innovations in Healthcare UK National Health Service
11/16/10 Connecting Patients, Providers and Payers IHI Harkness Fellows Lecture
1/26-1/28/11 Healthcare IT Strategy Course (International) Harvard School of Public Health
2/25/11 Japanese Healthcare IT Strategic Plan Japanese Diet (Congress)
2/26/11 Lessons Learned from the US Healthcare IT Plan Japanese Health and Global Policy Institute meeting 3/3/11 Lessons Learned from the US Healthcare IT Plan Dubai Health Ministry
3/8/11 Lessons Learned from the US Healthcare IT Plan Denmark Health Ministry
3/17/11 Lessons Learned from the US Healthcare IT Plan HSPH Latin America Executive Program
3/19/11 Freeing the Data Intersystems Global Summit
5/14/11 Meaningful Use and the Work ahead HL7 IHIC Conference
5/26/11 Connecting Patients, Providers, and Payers 6th MacKenzie Lecture in Scotland
6/13/11 The CareGroup Case Harvard Business School International Course
Report of Clinical Activities and Innovations
Current Licensure1996 Massachusetts Medical License
Practice Activities1996-1999 Emergency Medicine Physician Beth Israel Deaconess 2 shifts/week1999- Regional Poison Control, Consulting Mycologist for 300 cases/year
Clinical InnovationsHalamka JD, Harbor-UCLA Emergency Hospital Information System. July 1994One of the first hypertext (early web) based clinical information systems, this application supports Emergency Department clinical documentation, quality reporting, discharge instructions, and procedure logging.
Halamka JD, Harbor-UCLA Automated Patient Data Extraction System (APEX). October 1995Apex was created to support Clinical Research at Harbor-UCLA by extracting clinical data from the hospital information system with IRB oversight.
Halamka JD, Safran C, CareWeb, December 1996CareWeb links together the hospitals of CareGroup to ensure continuity of care among BIDMC, New England Baptist, Mt. Auburn, and Needham hospital.
Halamka JD, Nathanson L, Emergency Department Dashboard. May 1997The BIDMC Emergency Department Dashboard supports the workflow of patient care in the ED. The application has been expanded and commercialized as ForeRun Inc.
Halamka JD, Delbanco T, Rind D, Littauer B, PatientSite, August 1999Patientsite is one of the first personal health records, providing patient access to provider records, online appointment making, prescription renewals,
Halamka JD, Glaser J, Imbimbo J, Kelly J, Debor G, Cormier S, NEHEN Gateway, January 2000The New England Health Electronic Data Change Network connects the payers and providers of Massachusetts, currently supporting over 100 million healthcare administrative transactions per year. NEHEN has been adopted by several other states and regions in the US.
Halamka JD, Weber G, Fournier M, Rouse R, MyCourses/eCommons, August 2001Mycourses/eCommons are the portals used by Harvard Medical School to deliver 1600 courses, 50 applications, news/events, and collaboration. Mycourses ideas have been adopted by several schools across the country.
Halamka JD, Markson L, Bianco E, webOMR, August 2002webOMR is the electronic record used throughout the ambulatory and inpatient areas at Beth Israel Deaconess. It includes e-prescribing, problem list management, clinical documentation, ordering, results reporting, and decision support.
Halamka JD, Glaser J, Ascenzo C, Kelly J, Debor G, Fournier G, MA-Share, January 2005The MA-Share Gateway supports e-Prescribing data exchange among the payers, providers and pharmacies of Massachusetts. It also enables exchange of discharge summaries among providers throughout the state.
Report of Technological and Other Scientific Innovations
Halamka JD, Hall RE, Time Series Processor for CP/M (TSP), McGraw Hill. July 1983The Time Series Processor http://www.tspintl.com/ is a complete language for the estimation and simulation of econometric models. It is a world-wide standard for econometric estimation, with over 2000 installations.
Patents4,951,203 August 21, 1990 Patents the process of multimedia delivery of personalized messages with video and synchronized audio.
4,965,727 October 23, 1990 Extends the above process to delivery over wide area networks.
Report of ScholarshipOriginal ArticlesHalamka J, Gray JW, Gledhill BL, Lake S, Wyrobek AJ. Estimation of the frequency of malformed sperm by slit scan flow cytometry. Cytometry. 1984;5(4):333-8.
Halamka JD, Safran C. Virtual consolidation of Boston's Beth Israel and New England Deaconess Hospitals via the World Wide Web. Proc AMIA Annu Fall Symp. 1997: pp. 349-53
Halamka JD, Szolovits P, Rind D, Safran C. A WWW implementation of national recommendations for protecting electronic health information. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 1997;4(6):458-64.
Bourie PQ, Ferrenberg VA, McKay M, Halamka JD, Safran C. Implementation of an on-line Emergency Unit nursing system. Proc AMIA Symp. 1998: pp. 330-3.
Halamka JD. Web technology for emergency medicine and secure transmission of electronic patient records. MD Comput. 1998;15(4):232-7.
Halamka JD, Hughes M, Mack J, Hurwitz M, Davis F, Wood D, Borten K, Saal AK. Managing care in an integrated delivery system via an Intranet. Proc AMIA Symp. 1998: pp. 401-5.
Iserson KV, Adams J, Cordell WH, Graff L, Halamka J, Ling L, Peacock WF, Sklar D, Stair T. Academic emergency medicine's future. The SAEM Task Force on Emergency Medicine's Future. Society for Academic Emergency Medicine. Acad Emerg Med. 1999;6(2):137-44.
Halamka JD, Osterland C, Safran C. CareWeb, a web-based medical record for an integrated health care delivery system. Int J Med Inf. 1999;54(1):1-8.
Haukoos JS, Witt MD, Zeumer CM, Lee TJ, Halamka JD, Lewis RJ. Emergency department triage of patients infected with HIV. Acad Emerg Med. 2002;9(9):880-8
McClennen S, Halamka JD, Horowitz GL, Kannam JP, Ho KK. Clinical prevalence and ramifications of false-positive cardiac troponin I elevations from the Abbott AxSYM Analyzer. Am J Cardiol. 2003;91(9):1125-7.
Halamka J. [Electronic health record and revolution of clinical information technology current status and future impact]. Zhonghua Yi Xue Za Zhi. 2005;85(22):1513-5.
Halamka J, Overhage JM, Ricciardi L, Rishel W, Shirky C, Diamond C. Exchanging health information: local distribution, national coordination. As more communities develop information-sharing networks, a coordinated approach is essential for linking these networks. Health Aff (Millwood). 2005;24(5):1170-9.
Halamka J, Aranow M, Ascenzo C, Bates D, Debor G, Glaser J, Goroll A, Stowe J, Tripathi M, Vineyard G. Health care IT collaboration in Massachusetts: the experience of creating regional connectivity. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2005;12(6):596-601.
Halamka J, Aranow M, Ascenzo C, Bates DW, Berry K, Debor G, Fefferman J, Glaser J, Heinold J, Stanley J, Stone DL, Sullivan TE, Tripathi M, Wilkinson B. E-Prescribing collaboration in Massachusetts: early experiences from regional prescribing projects. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2006;13(3):239-44.
Halamka J, Juels A, Stubblefield A, Westhues J. The Security Implications of VeriChip Cloning. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2006 Nov-Dec;13(6):601-7. Epub 2006 Aug 23.
Halamka J, Mandl KD, Tang P. Early Experiences with Personal Health Records. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2008 January-February;15(1):1-7. Epub 2007 Oct 18.
Levine M, Adida B, Mandl K, Kohane I, Halamka J. What are the benefits and risks of fitting patients with radiofrequency identification devices. PLoS Med 2007; 4(11):e322
Halamka JD. Making smart investments in health information technology: core principles. Health Aff (Millwood) 2009; 28(2):w385-9
Halamka JD. Your medical information in the digital age. Harv Bus Rev 2009; 87(7-8):22, 24
Halamka JD. Making the most of federal health information technology regulations. Health Aff (Millwood) 2010; 29(4):596-600
Melnick ER, Nielson JA, Finnell JT, Bullard MJ, Cantrill SV, Cochrane DG, Halamka JD, Handler JA, Holroyd BR, Kamens D, Kho A, McClay J, Shapiro JS, Teich J, Wears RL, Patel SJ, Ward MF, Richardson LD. Delphi Consensus on the Feasibility of Translating the ACEP Clinical Policies Into Computerized Clinical Decision Support. Ann Emerg Med 2010
Editorials, Reviews and Chapters
Halamka JD, Safran C. CareWeb, a web-based medical record for an integrated healthcare delivery system. Medinfo. 1998;9 Pt 1:36-9.
O'Hehir J, Miller M, Halamka JD, McCutcheon J, Geehr E. Will medical intranets smooth the rocky road to the future? Med Netw Strategy Rep. 1998;7(7):8-9.
Halamka JD, Healthcare Intranet Security. In 1998 Guide to Intranets in Healthcare, Faulkner and Gray. 1998: 207-218.
Halamka JD, Data Warehouses on Intranets. in 1999 Guide to Intranets in Healthcare, Faulkner and Gray. 1999: 137-150.
Halamka JD, Provider and Consumer Internet Portals. in 2000 Guide to Enterprise Networks in Healthcare, Faulkner and Gray. 2000: 95-109.
Halamka J. A fix for data overload. CareGroup, Boston. Healthc Inform. 2000;17(10):115-6.
Halamka J. Inside a virtual nursery. Health Manag Technol. 2001;22(6):37-8. Halamka J. A winning combination. Health Manag Technol. 2002;23(8):20-1.
Halamka J. Matchmaking. An interview with John Halamka on linking patient records regionally. J AHIMA. 2005;76(4):42-3.
Halamka J. Straight from the shoulder. N Engl J Med. 2005;353(4):331-3.
DeBor G, Diamond C, Grodecki D, Halamka J, Overhage JM, Shirky C. A tale of three cities--where RHIOS meet the NHIN. J Healthc Inf Manag. 2006;20(3):63-70.
Halamka J. Early experiences with E-prescribing. J Healthc Inf Manag. 2006;20(2):12-4.
Halamka J. Early experiences with positive patient identification. J Healthc Inf Manag. 2006;20(1):25-7.
Halamka J. The perfect storm for electronic health records. J Healthc Inf Manag. 2006;20(3):25-7.
Halamka JD. Harmonizing healthcare data standards. J Healthc Inf Manag. 2006;20(4):11-12
Simons WW, Halamka JD, Kohane IS, Nigrin D, Finstein N, Mandl KD. Integration of the personally controlled electronic medical record into regional inter-regional data exchanges: a national demonstration. AMIA Annu Symp Proc. 2006: p. 1099.
Virk P, Bates DW, Halamka J, Fournier GA, Rothschild JM. Analyzing transaction workflows in an ePrescribing system. AMIA Annu Symp Proc. 2006: p. 1129.
Halamka JD. Health information technology: shall we wait for the evidence? Ann Intern Med. 2006;144(10):775-6.
Halamka J. On the road to RHIOs. Health Manag Technol. 2006;27(6):8, 10.
Halamka JD. Patients should have to opt out of national electronic care records: AGAINST. BMJ. 2006;333(7557):41-2.
Halamka J, Fournier GA. MA-SHARE MedsInfo-ED medication history pilot. Am J Med Qual. 2006;21(5):296-8.
Halamka J, "Life As a Healthcare CIO", 900 blog entries on http://geekdoctor.blogspot.com, 2007-2011.
Halamka J, 'How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Telecommuting", CIO Magazine, March, 2008.
Books, Monographs, and Textbooks
Halamka JD, Real World UNIX, Berkeley, Sybex, 1983.
Halamka JD, Best of CP/M, Berkeley, Sybex , 1983.
Halamka JD,. Espionage in the Silicon Valley, Berkeley, Sybex, 1984.
Halamka JD, A Guide to Financial and Community Resources for the Patients of Los Angeles County. County of Los Angeles. March 1994
Halamka JD, A Guide to the Medical Information Systems of Los Angeles County. County of Los Angeles. August 1994
Halamka JD, A Guide to the Medical Information Systems of the Veterans Administration Hospitals. County of Los Angeles. February 1995
Narrative Report"Connecting Payers, Providers and Patients" is the title I give to many of my lectures around the world. The last decade of my life has been dedicated to the technology and policy that enables information exchange among clinical, educational and administrative stakeholders. This has given me the opportunity to teach extraordinarily diverse audiences, ranging from medical students to international policy makers. My clinical background and my multiple roles as a teacher have enabled me to implement innovative technologies in local, regional, national, and international settings.
As the CIO of CareGroup, my work has leveraged the web to exchange medical records securely among the 5 hospitals of CareGroup. Today, the clinicians of CareGroup deliver personalized care to each patient using web applications such as webOMR and Provider Order Entry. Patients use PatientSite 40,000 times a month to lookup their results and interact with their providers. Patientsite is the testbed for new personal health record innovations from Microsoft and Google. CareGroup has been recognized as national leader in healthcare IT and our innovations have been widely adopted throughout the country.
As the CIO of Harvard Medical School, my work has focused on using the web to build communities throughout the Quad and NRB via data sharing, collaborative applications, and high performance computing. We launched Mycourses in 2001 as the HMS platform for multimedia courseware, simulation, and course administration. In 2008, the Harvard Catalyst team and my IT team implemented the next generation of web applications to support the Clinical and Translational Science Awards. These systems, called Profiles and SHRINE, bring access to people, expertise, and clinical data from all HMS affiliates, ensuring that every researcher can leverage the resources of the community. We have open sourced this software and it is now widely implemented throughout the country.
As Chair of the New England Healthcare Exchange Network, my early work focused on connecting the payers and providers of the state to reduce administrative costs. Today, 100 million transactions are exchanged among 42 organizations each year. NEHEN has expanded to encompass 90% of the healthcare transactions in Massachusetts, has been extended to other states, and is the foundation of the regional data exchange efforts funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA).
As the CIO of Harvard Clinical Research, my early work focused on building a clinical trials platform that could support all the data management needs of a Harvard-wide clinical research organization. Today, HRCI is profitable and conducting numerous clinical trials on a highly reliable infrastructure.
As CEO of MA-Share, my work has focused on creating clinical gateways for secure data exchange among providers in the state. For the past 3 years, Massachusetts has been the leading e=Prescriber in the country, using the MA-Share RxGateway to connect clinicians and pharmacies electronically. MA-Share has connected the clinical systems of BIDMC, Children's,
and Atrius to ensure continuity of care as patients leave the hospital or emergency department and seek follow-up with their primary care giver. In 2009, MA-Share merged with NEHEN to form a single healthcare information exchange for the state of Massachusetts.
As Chair of the Healthcare Information Technology Standards Panel, my work has focused on harmonizing the electronic data standards for personal health records, electronic health records, public health reporting, biosurveillance, and medication management. In 2008, Secretary Leavitt officially recognized HITSP Harmonized standards as required for Federal procurement. HITSP’s work served as the foundation for the data standards required in ARRA.
With a change in administration Washington, a new Federal Advisory Committee was created to guide electronic health record standards and security efforts, the HIT Standards Committee. I serve as co-Chair. The efforts of HITSP and the HIT Standards Committee became the criteria for allocating $27 Billion in ARRA stimulus incentives for healthcare IT.
2011 will be the most pivotal year for healthcare IT in the history of the US, with acceleration of electronic health records, data exchange, decision support, clinical research, and informatics innovations. I look forward to leveraging my local, regional, national, and international experiences to lead many aspects of this transformation.
