Profile of Mark Braunstein
Professor of the Practice, Georgia Institute of Technology
News & Commentary Posts: 18
Mark Braunstein is a professor in the College of Computing at Georgia Institute of Technology, where he teaches a graduate seminar and the first MOOC devoted to health informatics. He is the author of Contemporary Health Informatics (AHIMA Press, 2014) as well as Health Informatics in the Cloud, a brief non-technical guide to the field. Mark has been involved in health IT since the early 1970s when he developed one of the first ambulatory electronic medical record systems at a pioneering patient-centered clinic at the Medical University of South Carolina. After many years in the commercial sector, he joined Georgia Tech in 2007.
Articles by Mark Braunstein
5/8/2015
Marshfield Clinic has been using its home-grown electronic health record system for 20 years. Now it wants to sell EHRs as a cloud service.
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5/5/2015
Geisinger Health System shows that big, long-established providers can drive digital innovation.
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4/17/2015
The industry is focusing less on electronic record features and more on sharing the data held in them.
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4/10/2015
Epic has ridden the wave of electronic health record adoption to huge success. Now it needs to help drive a wave of EHR data-sharing.
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1/26/2015
Dr. John Halamka talks about the Argonaut Project, which aims to bring open standards to the arcane world of healthcare interoperability.
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1/8/2015
Peter Bernhardt of CommonWell Health Alliance, a group of clinical and health IT organizations, talks about its goal of better data exchange and application integration.
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12/1/2014
David McCallie, father of the Direct protocol, discusses the state of interoperability in healthcare with Georgia Tech informaticist Mark Braunstein.
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11/5/2014
Andrei Pop, CEO of health data platform firm Human API, discusses how web APIs can unite scattered health records.
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10/24/2014
The healthcare industry should give serious consideration to a ubiquitous, public, open approach to health information exchange based entirely on web standards.
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10/2/2014
As part of his "Free the Data" series, Georgia Tech's Mark Braunstein interviews Josh Mandel, architect of the SMART Platform.
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8/5/2014
Grahame Grieve, creator of a health data integration model based on RESTful Web services, discusses how a simplified approach could influence the future of health data with Georgia Tech health informatics expert Mark Braunstein.
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6/25/2014
Independent report lays out a robust path to interoperability. Will we follow it?
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4/16/2014
With a fresh delay for ICD-10 compliance, US healthcare providers and patients remain trapped in debate. Is higher quality clinical data worth the cost of more detailed data collection?
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2/25/2014
We've seen health informatics booms and busts before -- will this one be different?
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1/27/2014
New models promise to make sharing health information almost as simple as shopping on Amazon.
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12/24/2013
Standard APIs are beginning to remove the barriers to effective Personal Health Record systems.
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11/27/2013
To justify optimism about healthcare IT, we need to free the data tied up in electronic health records -- and it is happening.
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11/19/2013
Despite unsolved problems, healthcare IT has made great strides.
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