Monday, February 14, 2005
Intelligent Medical Objects Expands Medical Team
Intelligent Medical Objects Expands Medical Team: "Intelligent Medical Objects (IMO) announced today the addition of informatics experts Charles Safran, MD, MS; Howard Goldberg, MD; Fred E. 'Chip' Masarie, Jr., MD; and Amy Y. Wang, MD, to its consultant National Knowledge Team.
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'This announcement underscores IMO's long-term commitment to knowledge support for clinical applications,' said Frank Naeymi-Rad, PhD, MBA, IMO's Chief Executive Officer. Andrew S. Kanter, MD, MPH, IMO's President and Chief Medical Officer, added, 'We now have quite a powerful medical team. They will help extend the advantages we have developed over the last ten years and ensure that our vocabularies provide real value to the market for electronic health records (EHRs), disease management, data warehousing, and clinical research. We can continue to ensure that financial and clinical requirements will be met while retaining connections to standards like SNOMED(R) CT and the UMLS.'
Dr. Charles Safran is an Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Chairman of the American Medical Informatics Association. In addition, he is a leading figure within the medical community, advocating the use of electronic health records to improve patient care. Dr. Safran, who has been a leading voice for the development of interoperability among clinical systems, said, 'The IMO team understands the use of electronic documentation for decision support. Their vocabulary mappings to UMLS and SNOMED CT are key to connecting the healthcare information islands that have been created by disparate clinical applications.'
Dr. Howard Goldberg is a well-recognized informatics leader with longstanding experience in the development and application of terminology services for the management of clinical information. As a former member of the Harvard Medical School faculty and Clinician Support Technology, Goldberg has applied terminology services to the development of EHRs, patient portals, and clinical digital libraries, as well as made vocabulary contributions to the UMLS. Most recently, Dr. Goldberg has published about the use of semantic web technology and terminology services in the development of clinical knowledge mediators.
Dr. Fred E. 'Chip' Masarie, Jr. is another leader in medical informatics and has been working for the past year and a half as a terminology advisor to healthcare organizations, bringing a pragmatic approach to a complex area. Prior to that, he was the Enterprise Terminology Management Architect with GE Medical Systems IT. In this role, he developed a terminology management strategy which included bringing a point-of-care perspective to the GEMS-IT enterprise systems initiative. He spent many years designing and building terminology and clinical content solutions in his role as Clinical Development leader at Medicalogic. Dr. Masarie also built clinical decision support software (co-developed Quick Medical Reference) and was Chief Scientist at First DataBank, where he was also instrumental in the 'physicianization' of their knowledge bases. Dr. Masarie is a Fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics.
Dr. Amy Y. Wang strengthens IMO's clinical team with her experience in EHRs and clinical vocabularies. Before joining IMO, Dr. Wang was a clinical developer for Greenway Medical Technologies, where she worked directly with medical practices on the implementation, training, user support, and content development of EHRs. She also was a clinical advisor for Volunteers in Medicine - Clinic of the Cascades, a volunteer community health center in rural Oregon. As a clinical editor at the College of American Pathologists, Dr. Wang worked on the design and development of SNOMED CT. She has also published about the SNOMED CT development process and issues in the use of clinical vocabularies.
CEO Naeymi-Rad pointed out, 'The newly expanded team's experience is a blend of clinical, EHR, and informatics knowledge. Their combined experience will greatly contribute to our ongoing commitment to provide the best solutions in our space.'" ¶ 10:12 PM
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'This announcement underscores IMO's long-term commitment to knowledge support for clinical applications,' said Frank Naeymi-Rad, PhD, MBA, IMO's Chief Executive Officer. Andrew S. Kanter, MD, MPH, IMO's President and Chief Medical Officer, added, 'We now have quite a powerful medical team. They will help extend the advantages we have developed over the last ten years and ensure that our vocabularies provide real value to the market for electronic health records (EHRs), disease management, data warehousing, and clinical research. We can continue to ensure that financial and clinical requirements will be met while retaining connections to standards like SNOMED(R) CT and the UMLS.'
Dr. Charles Safran is an Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Chairman of the American Medical Informatics Association. In addition, he is a leading figure within the medical community, advocating the use of electronic health records to improve patient care. Dr. Safran, who has been a leading voice for the development of interoperability among clinical systems, said, 'The IMO team understands the use of electronic documentation for decision support. Their vocabulary mappings to UMLS and SNOMED CT are key to connecting the healthcare information islands that have been created by disparate clinical applications.'
Dr. Howard Goldberg is a well-recognized informatics leader with longstanding experience in the development and application of terminology services for the management of clinical information. As a former member of the Harvard Medical School faculty and Clinician Support Technology, Goldberg has applied terminology services to the development of EHRs, patient portals, and clinical digital libraries, as well as made vocabulary contributions to the UMLS. Most recently, Dr. Goldberg has published about the use of semantic web technology and terminology services in the development of clinical knowledge mediators.
Dr. Fred E. 'Chip' Masarie, Jr. is another leader in medical informatics and has been working for the past year and a half as a terminology advisor to healthcare organizations, bringing a pragmatic approach to a complex area. Prior to that, he was the Enterprise Terminology Management Architect with GE Medical Systems IT. In this role, he developed a terminology management strategy which included bringing a point-of-care perspective to the GEMS-IT enterprise systems initiative. He spent many years designing and building terminology and clinical content solutions in his role as Clinical Development leader at Medicalogic. Dr. Masarie also built clinical decision support software (co-developed Quick Medical Reference) and was Chief Scientist at First DataBank, where he was also instrumental in the 'physicianization' of their knowledge bases. Dr. Masarie is a Fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics.
Dr. Amy Y. Wang strengthens IMO's clinical team with her experience in EHRs and clinical vocabularies. Before joining IMO, Dr. Wang was a clinical developer for Greenway Medical Technologies, where she worked directly with medical practices on the implementation, training, user support, and content development of EHRs. She also was a clinical advisor for Volunteers in Medicine - Clinic of the Cascades, a volunteer community health center in rural Oregon. As a clinical editor at the College of American Pathologists, Dr. Wang worked on the design and development of SNOMED CT. She has also published about the SNOMED CT development process and issues in the use of clinical vocabularies.
CEO Naeymi-Rad pointed out, 'The newly expanded team's experience is a blend of clinical, EHR, and informatics knowledge. Their combined experience will greatly contribute to our ongoing commitment to provide the best solutions in our space.'" ¶ 10:12 PM
