John Halamka, MD, MS

Dr. Halamka is Chief Information Officer of the CareGroup Health System, Chief Information Officer and Associate Dean for Educational Technology at Harvard Medical School, Chairman of the New England Health Electronic Data Interchange Network, Chair of the Healthcare Information Technology Standards Panel, Chief Information Officer of the Harvard Clinical Research Institute, and a practicing emergency physician. During medical school and graduate training, he continued his business activities and developed Ibis Research Labs into a 25-person software consultancy, specializing in medical and financial information interchange. During his residency at Harbor-UCLA he developed a hospital-wide knowledge base for policies, procedures, and protocols. Further, he was instrumental in creating an on-line medical record, a quality control system, and several systems for medical education. His research focus during residency was building automated triage tools for patients infected with HIV. Dr. Halamka received his medical degree from the University of California, San Francisco and holds a master's degree in bioengineering from the University of California, Berkeley.