Shaun Grannis, MD, MS, FAAFP

After receiving an Aerospace Engineering degree from MIT, and undergoing post-doctoral training in Medical Informatics and Clinical Research at Regenstrief Institute and Indiana University School of Medicine, I joined Indiana University in 2001. Since then I have become a close collaborator with national and international public health stakeholders to advance the technical infrastructure and data-sharing capabilities. I served as a member of World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Center for the Design, Application, and Research of Medical Information Systems, where I provided consultancy on issues related to health information system identity management; and implementing automated patient record matching strategies. I’ve built and studied automated regional electronic laboratory reporting systems that demonstrate substantial increases in the electronic capture rates for diseases of public health significance when compared to traditional, manual, paper-based procedures, despite substantial data quality challenges. I oversee the evaluation of operational standards-based laboratory data interfaces between public health clinical laboratories and an electronic clinical messaging application used by both public health officials and clinicians. This system adjudicates more than 50 million real-time clinical transactions from hundreds of data sources yearly to assess their reportability to public health. As co-chair of the U.S. Health Information Technology Standards Panel (HITSP) Population Health technical work group, I helped lead development of technical Interoperability Specifications for nationally recognized public health IT use cases. I also served as the Director of the Indiana Center of Excellence in Public Health Informatics, one of only four such centers of excellence in the United States. This center recognized that public health practice is driven by a wide variety of data types, data sources, and data management techniques. In the field of record linkage I received the American Medical Informatics Association's (AMIA) Martin Epstein Award for advancing the body of medical informatics knowledge through novel record linkage methods; I have provided expert testimony before the Department of Health and Human Services National Committee for Vital and Health Statistics (NCVHS) regarding national patient identity management policy; I have worked with the World Health Organization, UNAIDS, and the CDC as a subject matter expert developing new approaches, policies, and procedures for identity management; and, I have received AHRQ R01 funding to develop methodological improvements for real-world patient matching systems.