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Session 22: Health Care, Information, and Technology: A New World for Business
“The Value of Health Care Information Technology”
“Instrumenting Health Care Systems for Discovery in the Genomic Era”
Sponsor: NABE Health Economics Roundtable
Presentations
Isaac Kohane: Harnessing The Healthcare System For Research In The Genomic Era
Links of Interest
Center for Information Technology Leadership
Center for Biomedical Informatics
Speakers
Robert F. Graboyes
Visiting Lecturer,
University of Richmond
Adjunct Associate Professor, Virginia Commonwealth University;
Clinical Associate Professor of Nursing, University of Virginia;
Chair, NABE Health Economics Roundtable
Dr. Robert F. Graboyes is a health economist whose work revolves around the question, "How much is a less-than-100% chance at life worth?"
As a professor of health economics at a major medical campus, Dr. Graboyes asks this almost unthinkable question to his students, most of whom are physicians, medical researchers, and other health care professionals. He helps them struggle toward coherent answers, and they help him do the same.
Dr. Graboyes' work has taken him to four continents. As Chase Manhattan Bank's economist for sub-Saharan
Writing is a source of pride for Dr. Graboyes. He began adult life not as an economist, but a student of literature - primarily of
Languages, too, are a special passion for Dr. Graboyes, who, in addition to English, speaks French, Spanish, and Portuguese (and a few other languages to a lesser degree). When he's not doing economics, Dr. Graboyes is an accomplished jazz, Latin, and classical musician.
Dr. Graboyes has a Ph.D. in Economics from
Blackford Middleton,
Assistant Professor of Medicine,
Harvard Medical School
Corporate Director for Clinical Informatics Research and Development; Chairman of the Center for Information Technology Leadership
Blackford Middleton is Corporate Director of Clinical Informatics Research & Development, and Chairman of the Center for Information Technology Leadership (CITL) at Partners Healthcare System, and Assistant Professor of Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, and of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard School of Public Health.
As Corporate Director for Partners Clinical Informatics Research & Development, he leads the development of Partners enterprise clinical systems strategy, software product management for the Partners EMR, patient portal, enterprise clinical decision support and knowledge management services, and conducts clinical informatics research. He was a co-founder of CITL at Partners in early 2002, and leads its research in value-based technology assessment. In 2004, CITL began its Fellowship Program in Information Technology Assessment, where Dr. Middleton serves as Fellowship Program Director.
Prior to joining Partners Healthcare and Harvard Medical School, he was Medical Director of Information Management and Technology at Stanford Health Services from 1992 to 1995, and Senior Vice President for Clinical Informatics and Chief Medical Officer for MedicaLogic/Medscape from 1995 to 2001. He has over 150 publications and invited presentations on electronic health records, the Internet in healthcare, and related policy and technical issues. Dr. Middleton was recognized by Modern Physician as one of the Top 50 (#36) most powerful physician executives in 2005.
Dr. Middleton studied Molecular Biology and Biochemistry at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He received an MD from the State University of New York School of Medicine at Buffalo, and was trained in internal medicine at the University of Connecticut Health Sciences Center. He received a Masters in Public Health degree from the Yale University School of Medicine with a dual concentration in Epidemiology, and Health Services Administration. His Fellowship in General Internal Medicine was at Stanford University, where he received his Master of Science degree in Health Services Research, focusing on medical informatics.
Dr. Middleton serves on the Boards of Directors of the Healthcare Information Management & Systems Society (HIMSS) where he is Chairman 2005-6, HealthAlliant, Inc., and MassPRO. He is Treasurer of the American College of Medical Informatics, and is past Chairman of the Computer-based Patient Record Institute. Dr. Middleton is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians, the American College of Medical Informatics, and HIMSS.
Isaac S. Kohane
Associate Professor of Health Sciences and Technology
Harvard Medical School
Co-Director, HMS Center for Biomedical Informatics
Director, HMS Countway Library of Medicine
Isaac (Zak) Kohane is the director of the Children’s Hospital Informatics Program and is the Henderson Associate Professor Health Sciences and Technology at Harvard Medical School. He is also Director of the Countway Library of Medicine of Harvard Medical School and co-Director of the HMS Center for Biomedical Informatics. Dr. Kohane leads multiple collaborations at Harvard Medical School and its hospital affiliates in the use of genomics and computer science to study cancer and the development of the brain (with emphasis on autism). He also has developed several computer systems to allow multiple hospital systems to be used as “living laboratories” to study the genetic basis of disease while preserving patient privacy.
Dr. Kohane has published over 115 papers in the medical literature and authored a widely used book on Microarrays for an Integrative Genomics. He has been elected to multiple honor societies including the American Society for Clinical Investigation and the American College of Medical Informatics. He leads a doctoral program in genomics and bioinformatics at MIT. He is also a practicing pediatric endocrinologist and father of two energetic children.
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