Amnon Shabo (Shvo)
PhD
Specializes in health informatics and worked at IBM Research Lab in Haifa in years 2000-2014.
He co-founded and chaired the Medical Informatics Community in IBM Research and headed the IBM worldwide program on healthcare & life Sciences standards. Amnon established and chairs two professional working groups:
(1) the IMIA Working Group on Health Record Banking (HRB) and (2) the EFMI Working Group on Translational Health Informatics.
Amnon specializes in longitudinal and cross-institutional Electronic Health Records and is a pioneer of the Independent Health Record Banks vision. He started a health record bank initiative already in 1998 and since then has promoted the vision in numerous venues and scientific publications. His vision also includes a legislation change that could make HRB successful.
Amnon has been leading key standardization activities: he established and co-chairs the HL7 Clinical Genomics Work Group and is a co-editor of the Clinical Document Architecture (CDA), Continuity of Care Document (CCD), the Family Health History (Pedigree) and the Genetic Testing Report (GTR) standards.
He co-founded and chaired the Medical Informatics Community in IBM Research and headed the IBM worldwide program on healthcare & life Sciences standards. Amnon established and chairs two professional working groups:
(1) the IMIA Working Group on Health Record Banking (HRB) and (2) the EFMI Working Group on Translational Health Informatics.
Amnon specializes in longitudinal and cross-institutional Electronic Health Records and is a pioneer of the Independent Health Record Banks vision. He started a health record bank initiative already in 1998 and since then has promoted the vision in numerous venues and scientific publications. His vision also includes a legislation change that could make HRB successful.
Amnon has been leading key standardization activities: he established and co-chairs the HL7 Clinical Genomics Work Group and is a co-editor of the Clinical Document Architecture (CDA), Continuity of Care Document (CCD), the Family Health History (Pedigree) and the Genetic Testing Report (GTR) standards.
