John Halamka
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John D. Halamka, M.D., M.S., is an American business executive and physician. He is president of the Mayo Clinic Platform, a group of digital and long-distance health care initiatives.[1]
Trained in emergency medicine and medical informatics, Halamka has been developing and implementing health care information strategy and policy for more than 25 years. He specializes in artificial intelligence, the adoption of electronic health records and the secure sharing of healthcare data for care coordination, population health, and quality improvement.[2][3]
In 2020, Halamka was elected to the National Academy of Medicine (NAM).
Prior to his appointment at Mayo Clinic, he was chief information officer at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. He is a practicing emergency medicine physician.
As the International Healthcare Innovation Professor at Harvard Medical School, Halamka helped the
Early life and education
Halamka was born in
He graduated from
In 1981, he formed a software startup company, Ibis Research Labs, in the basement of
He attended the joint MD/PhD program at
Information technology
In November 2019, Halamka joined Mayo Clinic and was named president of Mayo Clinic Platform. He is charged with elevating Mayo Clinic to a global leadership position within digital healthcare.
Halamka joined the faculty of
In 1998, he was named
In August 2011, he was named co-chair of the Massachusetts HIT/HIE Advisory Committee,[9] a multi-stakeholder group which advises the Massachusetts HIT Council, the governance body which sets priorities and approves the allocation of state and federal funds for healthcare information technology spending in Massachusetts.
In March 2012, he was named to the board of the Open Source Electronic Health Record Agent (OSEHRA), a non-profit established by the Department of Veterans Affairs, dedicated to accelerating innovation in electronic health record software.[10]
In December 2019, he was named the president of the Mayo Clinic Platform, to commence January 1, 2020. The platform is a coordinated portfolio approach to create new platform ventures to take advantage of emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, connected healthcare devices, and natural language processing.[11]
Other interests
Halamka continues his work as an emergency physician, and provides mushroom and poisonous plant consultation to the Regional Center for Poison Control and Prevention (Boston).
In 2012, Halamka and his wife Kathy founded Unity Farm, an organic certified producer of fruits, vegetables, and cider. In 2016, they founded Unity Farm Sanctuary,[12] a charitable organization providing forever homes to farm animals in need, in addition to community education and volunteer opportunities.
He also writes the blog Geekdoctor: Dispatch from the Digital Health Frontier.[13]
Halamka has authored the following books:
- Reinventing Clinical Decision Support: Data Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, and Diagnostic Reasoning (co-authored by Paul Cerrato)[14]
- The Best of CP/M Software[15]
- Real World Unix[16]
- Espionage in the Silicon Valley[17]
- The Fifth Domain (co-authored with Giuliano Pozza)[18]
- GeekDoctor: Life as a Healthcare CIO
- Realizing the Promise of Precision Medicine: The Role of Patient Data, Mobile Technology, and Consumer Engagement (co-authored by Paul Cerrato)
- The Transformative Power of Mobile Medicine: Leveraging Innovation, Seizing Opportunities and Overcoming Obstacles of mHealth (co-authored by Paul Cerrato)
See also
References
- ^ "Dr. John Halamka named president of Mayo Clinic Platform". newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/. 3 December 2019. Retrieved 2021-02-23.
- ^ "Privacy's Guarded Prognosis". The New York Times. 1 March 2001.
- ^ Lohr, Steve (6 October 2009). "A Web Site Devoted to Your Health". The New York Times.
- ISBN 9780895882387.
- ISBN 9780895880932.
- ISBN 9780895881007.
- ^ "John D. Halamka, MD, MS". www.hitsp.org. Retrieved 2017-01-02.
- ^ "About CareWeb Provider Connection".
- ^ "Massachusetts eHealth Institute". www.maehi.org. Archived from the original on 26 November 2011. Retrieved 12 January 2022.
- ^ "Press release" (PDF). www.osehra.org. March 5, 2012. Retrieved 2019-05-21.
- ^ "Press release". www.newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org. December 14, 2019. Retrieved 2020-02-21.
- ^ "Unity Farm Sanctuary". unityfarmsanctuary.org. Retrieved 2019-01-05.
- ^ "Life as a Healthcare CIO". geekdoctor.blogspot.com. Retrieved 2017-01-02.
- OCLC 1130764675.)
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