Mark Frisse, MD

Formerly the Accenture Professor and Vice-Chair of Business Development in the Department of Biomedical Informatics at University Medical Center. His work focuses on the intersection between health care informatics, economics, policy, and health care transformation. His service includes responsibilities coordinating informatics activities among regional hospitals and fostering effective health information exchange. His research is directed toward the potential contribution to economically sustainable health care through more effective use of informatics and information technology. In Tennessee, Dr. Frisse led the development and oversight of a six-year federal- and state-sponsored effort to create and operate a health information exchange for the greater Memphis area. More recently his focus has been on ONC-funded privacy research, CMS Innovation Award focused on care coordination. Previously, Dr. Frisse has held leadership positions at Washington University, Express Scripts, and the First Consulting Group. At Express Scripts, he was Chief Medical Officer and was responsible for their Practice Patterns Science division and the DrugDigest.org consumer Web site. In this capacity he helped found RxHub. At First Consulting, he led engagements in vendor selection, quality governance, physician information technology leadership development, and clinician governance. Dr. Frisse is a board certified internist trained in hematology-oncology. He was trained at the University of Notre Dame (BS), Washington University (MD, MBA), and Stanford University (MS, Medical Information Science). He is a member of the National Academy of Medicine.
Her remains active as a teacher and consultant..