Building the App Store for Health with Dr Kenneth Mandl_7


Email: Kenneth Mandl, MD, MPH Overview Dr. Kenneth Mandl directs the Computational Health Informatics Program at Boston Children’s Hospital and is the Donald A. B. Lindberg Professor of Pediatrics and Biomedical Informatics at Harvard Medical School. He is trained as a pediatrician and pediatric emergency doctor. His work in the intersection of population and individual health has had a particular, sustained influence on the developing area of biomedical informatics. Mandl’s Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers has been for pioneering real time biosurveillance, tracking infections and detecting outbreaks with diverse data. He has long advocated for individual involvement in producing and obtaining data and has been a leader of the first personal health systems, using crowdsourced knowledge from online patient networks, and progressing participatory medicine and involvement in clinical trials. Cognizant of the constraints of extant digital health record systems, Mandl developed a widely-adopted, exceptionally influential strategy (SMART)–substitutable programs that run universally on health IT systems. SMART lets innovators reach market scale and also Building the App Store for Health with Dr Kenneth Mandl patients and physicians access an”program store for wellness ” Through the 21st Century Cures Act, SMART has become governed as the normal interface where patients, suppliers, and programs access data from electronic health records. He employs open source inventions to lead EHR research networks. He is a leader of the Genomics Research and Innovation Network around three major children’s physicians. He sends the Boston Children’s Hospital PrecisionLink Biobank for Health Discovery. Background Dr. Mandl teaches and mentors broadly at the postgraduate level. He leads an NIH training program in biomedical informatics and genomics. He received the Clifford A. Barger Award for top advisers at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Mandl was advisor to 2 Managers of the CDC and chaired the Board of Scientific Counselors of the NIH’s National Library of Medicine. He’s been elected to multiple honor societies including the American Society for Clinical Investigation, Society for Pediatric Research, American College of Medical Informatics and American Pediatric Society. Mandl is a recipient of the Donald A