Clinical Informatics Lecture Series

A decade of clinical informatics fellowship training: how far we've come and where we're going

Jonathan Hron, MD

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Dr. Hron attended medical school at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine and completed his residency in the Boston Combined Residency Program at Boston Children’s Hospital and Boston Medical Center. He continued on as a Chief Resident at Boston Children’s Hospital, where he began practicing Clinical Informatics. As a faculty member he has devoted his career to improving systems of care through the implementation of information technology, including electronic health records, HIPAA compliant text communication systems, telehealth and artificial intelligence. He is a staunch advocate for data driven decision making in clinical informatics as well as the secondary use of clinical data for research and quality improvement. In 2015 he co-founded the Boston Children’s Hospital Clinical Informatics Fellowship Program, one of the first ACGME approved pediatric Clinical Informatics training programs in the country. Clinically, Dr. Hron cares for hospitalized patients on the general pediatrics and complex care services at Boston Children's.

Federal Health IT Policy and Interoperability: Perspectives from CMS

William Gordon, MD

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William Gordon, MD currently serves as the Chief Informatics Officer at the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation at CMS. In this role, he leads the center's initiatives around clinical data, technology, interoperability, and Health IT policy. Dr. Gordon is also currently serving as a senior advisor for technology & interoperability to the CMS Administrator. Dr. Gordon is a national leader in digital health, health information technology, and interoperability and has done extensive operational and academic work in this space. Dr. Gordon previously had technology and informatics leadership roles at the Mass General Brigham healthcare system in Boston Massachusetts. He is currently a staff physician at Brigham and Women's hospital and faculty in Harvard Medical School's Department of Biomedical Informatics.

10 Years of the HCILS: A Conversation with Dr. Zak Kohane

Isaac Kohane, MD, PhD

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Join us for a conversation with Dr. Isaac (Zak) Kohane, as we kick off the 10th year of the Harvard Clinical Informatics Lecture Series

Isaac “Zak” Kohane, MD, PhD, is the inaugural chair of Harvard Medical School’s Department of Biomedical Informatics, whose mission is to develop the methods, tools, and infrastructure required for a new generation of scientists and care providers to move biomedicine rapidly forward by taking advantage of the insight and precision offered by big data. Kohane develops and applies computational techniques to address disease at multiple scales, from whole health care systems to the functional genomics of neurodevelopment. He also has worked on AI applications in medicine since the 1990’s, including automated ventilator control, pediatric growth monitoring, detection of domestic abuse, diagnosing autism from multimodal data and most recently assisting clinicians using whole genome sequence and clinical histories to diagnose rare or unknown disease patients. He is the inaugural Editor-in-Chief of NEJM AI and co-author of a recent book “The AI Revolution in Medicine". He is a member of the National Academy of Medicine, the American Society for Clinical Investigation and the American College of Medical Informatics.