Kensaku Kawamoto, MD, PhD, MHS
Role:
U.S. Core Data for Interoperability Task Force 2018,
Member
Interoperability Standards Priorities Task Force 2018,
Co-Chair
U.S. Core Data for Interoperability Task Force 2019,
Member
Conditions and Maintenance of Certification Requirements Task Force,
Member
U.S. Core Data for Interoperability Task Force 2021,
Member
Interoperability Standards Priorities Task Force 2021,
Member
Associate Chief Medical Information Officer
University of Utah Health
University of Utah Health
HITAC Member Terms:
Term 1: 1/2018 – 12/2020
Term 2: 1/2021 – 12/2023
Kensaku Kawamoto, MD, PhD, MHS, is Associate Chief Medical Information Officer, University of Utah Health, and Professor, University of Utah Department of Biomedical Informatics. He conducts research to develop standards-based, interoperable applications and software services to improve health care. He is also a co-chair of the HL7 Clinical Decision Support Work Group, and he founded OpenCDS, a multi-institutional initiative to enable advanced, standards-based, and open-source clinical decision support and electronic clinical quality measurement. Dr. Kawamoto received his degree in medicine, his PhD, and his Master of Health Sciences from Duke University.