Gilad Kuperman, MD, PhD

Gilad J. (Gil) Kuperman is the Director of Clinical Information Systems Research and Development at Partners HealthCare System, and an Instructor in medicine at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Kuperman has an MD from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York, and a PhD in medical informatics from the University of Utah. Dr. Kuperman has worked in the Information Systems Department of Brigham and Women's Hospital and Partners HealthCare System since 1992. He has been involved in the development and evaluation of several clinical decision support systems, including an automated alerting system for critical laboratory results, reminders in physician order entry to improve the quality and efficiency of care, reminders in the ambulatory setting to improve compliance with guidelines, dosing decision support for patients with renal failure, and drugñdrug interactions. Dr. Kuperman also has worked on important infrastructural components, such as coded problem lists and clinical medication dictionaries. Dr. Kuperman won the 1996 CHIM Award at the AMIA Fall Symposium for his paper ìDetecting Alerts, Notifying Physicians, and Offering Action Items: A Comprehensive Alerting Systemî for the application most likely to change the hospital information systems industry. He serves on the editorial board of the Joint Commission Journal for Quality Improvement and is on the American College of Physicians' Patient Safety Task Force. Dr. Kuperman speaks and has published widely on the effects of physician order entry and other information technologies on clinical care. He has served twice as a judge at AMIA's Student Paper Competition and has served as a Program Member at the Spring and Fall AMIA Symposia.