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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.

SHIP: Social and Health Information Platform

As much as 90% of our overall health is determined not by clinical factors, but by social, behavioral, and environmental factors – also known as social determinants of health (SDoH)

FHIRedApp: Leading Edge Acceleration Projects

Getting access to one’s own health records can be difficult – often your health record is fragmented, with different pieces of it held by different providers, and there is typically a lengthy “authorization to release” process that involves paper forms…

Connxus: Central Texas Health Information Exchange

The Connxus (formerly ICC, the Integrated Care Collaboration) is the Health Information Exchange (HIE) for the Greater Austin/Central Texas area. HIEs organize and store electronic health information of patients across multiple providers and hospitals in one place, allowing doctors, pharmacists, EMTs and other providers to access a more complete record of patients’ medical information in a quick, secure, consistent, and cost-effective manner.