Public Biography
Jonathan Teich is Chief Medical Information Officer, and director of product management for the HealthShare division at InterSystems. His responsibilities include leading the vision and design for health IT solutions to high-priority clinical and operational problems of providers, payers, governments and service providers, based on InterSystemsí industry-leading health integration platform. He is an emergency physician at Brigham and Womenís Hospital, assistant professor of medicine and emergency medicine at Harvard, and clinical architecture leader for health information systems in developing countries with OpenMRS. Dr. Teich founded the Clinical Informatics R&D department at Partners Healthcare, developing two generations of innovative electronic health records, computerized ordering and clinical decision support (CDS) systems that cut adverse medication events in half. He was founding Chief Medical Officer of Healthvision, a startup pioneering web-based health information exchange, and served as Chief Medical Informatics Officer for Elsevier, the worldís largest publisher of scientific and health information, where he led vision, strategy, and design for knowledge-based tools and CDS supporting provider- and patient-driven care. With OpenMRS, he has designed systems supporting community clinics, national health programs, MSF trials of new TB drugs, and an acute-care system for the difficult working conditions of Ebola treatment centers. Dr. Teich has authored over 100 publications in medical informatics and healthcare IT. He is a co-author of the book, Improving Outcomes with Clinical Decision Support: An Implementerís Guide. He co-chaired the HHS-sponsored Roadmap for National Action on Clinical Decision Support, and from 2009-2012 helped lead the CDS portfolio for the Office of the National Coordinator (ONC). He has served on the board of directors of AMIA, HIMSS, and the eHealth Initiative, and serves on a variety of industry and government councils on CDS, health informatics, knowledge delivery, and healthcare quality.
Historic ACMI Biography
Jonathan Teich is the director of the Center for Applied Medical Information Systems Research at Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) and corporate director of clinical systems research and development for Partners Healthcare Systems, the parent corporation of Brigham and Women's and Massachusetts General Hospital. He is also an attending physician in the BWH Department of Emergency Medicine. He received a BS in Biochemistry and Engineering from Caltech, his MD at Harvard Medical School, and a PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT. He completed a residency in internal medicine and a fellowship in emergency medicine at BWH. Since joining the Information Systems department at BWH, Dr. Teich's efforts have included the development of the computerized ambulatory record, the Handbook clinical reference system, provider order entry with extensive decision support, automated patient coverage list and sign-out systems, emergency medicine care improvement, and the BWH clinical event-processing engine. His research centers on the design and impact of user-friendly systems that guide providers toward optimal care patterns, lower resource utilization, better clinical communication, and reduced adverse events. Dr. Teich is a member of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Publications Committee, the AMIA Clinical Computing Working Group, and the program committee for the 1997 AMIA Fall Symposium.
Affiliations
Fellows of AMIA (FAMIA)
FAMIA stands for “Fellow of the American Medical Informatics Association” and it recognizes the contributions and professional accomplishments of AMIA members who apply informatics skills and knowledge to their practice – be that in a clinical setting, a public or population health capacity, or as a clinical researcher.
Year Inducted
2019
The American College of Medical Informatics
ACMI is a college of elected Fellows from the U.S. and abroad who have made significant and sustained contributions to the field of medical informatics. It is the central body for a community of scholars and practitioners who are committed to advancing the informatics field.
Year Elected
1996