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Using Data and Technology to Innovate Healthcare and Empower Our Communities

Using Data and Technology to Innovate Healthcare and Empower Patients and Communities

About Dr. Anjum Khurshid, M.D., Ph.D.

I’m an Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, where I serve as Founding Director of the Center for Artificial Intelligence and Biomedical Informatics and Chief Data Scientist for the FDA’s national Sentinel Operations Center — one of the largest distributed clinical data enterprises in the federal government, covering 300 million patients. My work fundamentally involves building the infrastructure that lets health data do what it should: improve care, reduce disparities, and enable research that changes policy. Over 20+ years I have founded national research networks, led major federal health IT demonstrations, and pioneered AI, FHIR-based data integration, and digital health apps in service of population and public health.

Publications

Medical AI Neglects Real Treatment Outcomes

Health Information Exchanges (HIEs) as Novel Sources for Population-Based Post Marketing Surveillance of Medical Products: A Pilot Study from the FDA Sentinel Innovation Center

The health data utility and the resurgence of health information exchanges as a national resource

Center for Artificial Intelligence and Biomedical Informatics (CAB)

Dr. Khurshid is the founding Director of the Center for Excellence at Harvard’s Department of Population Medicine, with the mission to conduct and promote impactful artificial intelligence and biomedical informatics research with practical and generalizable real-world implementations that focus on improving population health and efficiency.

FHIRedApp

FHIRedApp is a patient-facing mobile platform portal based on FHIR data standards (Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources) to facilitate direct patient involvement in clinical care and research. Patients can review and share all their medical and social data through their mobile phones in a secure and HIPAA-compliant environment. Khurshid A, Oliveira E, Lakshminarayanan, Abrol V. FHIRedApp: A LEAP in health information technology for promoting patient access to their medical information.

Building a Social and Health Information Platform (SHIP) in Central Texas

Designing a standards-based, data platform that links and displays patient-level and community-level data from across sectors into job-specific visualizations and alerts. SHIP works with Connxus, a Health Information Exchange (HIE), and has shown an impact on readmissions in a pediatric population.

Establishing a National HIE Research Network (HIERN)

Work with HIE leaders from across the country to establish a national network of HIEs by using data standards, technical innovations, and legal and regulatory solutions. The distributed data network is a unique and newly available resource for EHR-based and SDOH data for population health studies and public health surveillance.