Three Apps Fan the Flames as HL7 FHIR Spreads

With an engineering background and over 20 years of medical practice, Dr. Russell Leftwich is Senior Clinical Advisor, Interoperability, for InterSystems. He is also Adjunct Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. He is board certified in internal medicine and clinical informatics.

Russ was previously Chief Medical Informatics Officer for the State of Tennessee Office of eHealth. He received the 2011 Health Information Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Physician IT Leadership award for his role in leadership in standards adoption, quality improvement initiatives, and patient engagement.

He is currently co-chair of the IHE USA Implementation Committee, co-chair of the HL7 Learning Health Systems WG, and a member of the Sequoia Project Content Testing WG. He has served a leadership role in clinical standards development as co-lead of the Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) for HIT Standards & Interoperability Framework Longitudinal Coordination of Care Initiative, chair of HL7 Health Professional Engagement Initiative, and co-chair of the HL7 Patient Care Workgroup. He has served as co-chair of the ONC HIT Standards Committee Consumer Technology Workgroup. He is an active member of the HIMSS Interoperability and Standards Committee, the Physician Community, and the Management Engineering-Process Improvement Community. He is a member of the National Quality Forum (NQF) HIT Advisory Committee, NQF Care Coordination Measures Steering Committee, and NQF Prioritizing Measure Gaps Care Coordination Committee.

He holds a B.S.E. degree in chemical and bioengineering from Arizona State University and an M.D. from Vanderbilt University School of Medicine.