Preliminary Observations on Information Technology Needs and Priorities at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services An Interim Report (2010) / Chapter Skim
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B Biosketches of Committee Members and Staff
B Biosketches of Committee Members and Staff
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of the American Medical Informatics Association, the informatics professional association based in Bethesda, Maryland. He is also a professor of biomedical informatics at the University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston, Texas.
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in databases from the University of Toronto; has authored more than 160 books, chapters, and articles; and has presented more than 150 keynote addresses and invited lectures in more than 30 countries. He is an adjunct professor, National University of Ireland, Galway; an adjunct research fellow, Digital Ecosystems and Business Intelligence Institute at Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Australia; and the chair of advisory boards for three institutions -- Semantic Technology Institutes International, Vienna, Austria; the Digital Enterprise Research Institute, National University of Ireland; and the Semantic Technology Institute, Innsbrück, Austria.
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Dr. Detmer's research interests include national and international health information and communications policy, quality improvement, administrative medicine, vascular surgery, the education of clinician-executives, and leadership of academic health sciences centers.
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; on Garlic, a system that allowed federation of heterogeneous data sources; and on Clio, the first semiautomatic tool for heterogeneous schema mapping. Garlic technology, married with DB2 UDB query processing, is the basis for the IBM WebSphere Information Server's federation capabilities, while Clio capabilities are a core differentiator in IBM's Rational Data Architect.
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in mathematics from the Stony Brook University in 1984. George Hripcsak is the Vivian Beaumont Allen Professor and chair of Columbia University's Department of Biomedical Informatics, director of Medical Informatics Services for New YorkPresbyterian Hospital, and senior informatics adviser at the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.
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He was the founding director of the Irvine Research Unit in Software and the Southern California Software Process Improvement Network. Professor Osterweil's research focuses on the definition, analysis, and iterative improvement of processes.
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Professor Osterweil has been the program committee chair for such conferences as ICSE 16; the Second International Symposium on Software Testing, Analysis, and Validation; the Fourth International Software Process Workshop; the Second Symposium on Software Development Environments; and both the Second and the Fifth International Conferences on the Software Process. He was also the general chair of the Sixth ACM SIGSOFT Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering, and of the 28th International Conference on Software Engineering.
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Dr. Suarez has provided project management, technical and policy consulting services, and project and program evaluation services to health care provider organizations, health plans, Medicaid and Medicare programs, public health agencies, and vendors in the areas of health information technology/health information exchange, public health data standards, health disparities, quality measurement, health information privacy and security standards, and HIPAA standards, including Transactions and Code Sets and the National Provider Identifier.
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He has also served actively in several national organizations, including as a member of the board of directors of the former Health Information Technology Standards Panel (HITSP) , where he co-chaired the Security, Privacy and Infrastructure Technical Committee, the Clinical Research Tiger Team, and the HITSP Education, Communications and Outreach Committee; co-chair of the Privacy and Compliance Workgroup of the Certification Commission for Health Information Technology; founding president of the Public Health Data Standards Consortium; member of the executive board of the Joint Public Health Informatics Task Force; and member of the National Uniform Claims Committee.
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Professor Szolovits was elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies and is a fellow of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence, the American College of Medical Informatics, and the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering. He serves as a member of the National Research Council's Computer Science and Telecommunications Board.
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While at the NMAB she completed two studies on Aviation Security (Fusion of Security System Data to Improve Airport Security and Assessment of Millimeter-Wave and Terahertz Technology for Detection and Identification of Concealed Explosives and Weapons) , directed the roundtable on biomedical engineering materials and applications, and oversaw a workshop on nondestructive evaluation for materials state awareness, among other activities.
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