U of U Well being Biomedical Informaticist Appointed to Second Term on Countrywide Well being Information Technological know-how Advisory Committee

Nov 12, 2020 10:00 AM

Kensaku Kawamoto, MD, PhD, MHS, associate chief health-related information officer and an affiliate professor of biomedical informatics at University of Utah Wellness, will provide a second three-year term on a national committee that helps the federal govt tackle well being facts technologies issues.

Set up as aspect of the 21^st Century Cures Act in 2016, the Overall health Facts Technological innovation Advisory Committee (HITAC) supplies suggestions to the Nationwide Coordinator of Health Data Technologies on procedures, expectations, implementation specifications, and certification criteria that advancements electronic accessibility, trade, and use of health and fitness information and facts. 

Very first appointed in 2017, Kawamoto’s new time period commences on Jan. 1, 2021.

“I am honored to keep on my assistance on this committee,” stated Kawamoto, who also co-chaired the HITAC Interoperability Specifications Priorities Process Force during his preliminary phrase. “There is so a great deal prospective for information and facts technology to strengthen wellbeing care, and I glimpse forward to contributing to our collective endeavours to recognize this vision.”

Kawamoto been given his bachelor’s diploma in biochemical sciences from Harvard University. He attained his MD, PhD in biomedical engineering with a focus on biomedical informatics, and MHS in clinical investigate from Duke University. At University of Utah Overall health, Kawamoto chairs the Medical Decision Guidance committee and is a chief of the University’s ReImagine EHR initiative, which is a multi-stakeholder energy to empower requirements-based mostly, interoperable programs and program products and services to strengthen health and fitness and wellbeing care.

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