Charles Safran
BornJune 5, 1951 (1951-06-05) (age 72)
New York City, New York
EducationTufts University
Occupation(s)Former Chief Division of Clinical Informatics, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Professor of Medicine Harvard Medical School
Known forElectronic medical records, clinical decision support system, health information technology

Charles Safran (born February 3, 1951) is an American-born physician, biomedical informatician, and professor, who is known for his work regarding the use of health information technology (HIT) to improve the delivery and quality of healthcare, in particular clinical information systems.

Early life and education

Charles Safran was born on February 3, 1951, in New York City. He earned his Bachelor of Science degree in mathematics and logic at Tufts University in 1974. He received an M.D. from Tufts University in 1980. His postdoctoral training included an internship and residency in internal medicine at the Boston Veterans Administration Medical Center from 1980 to 1983.[1]

Career

His professional roles included early positions as a programmer and Sponsored Research Staff at MIT's Laboratory for Computer Science (1973-1976). He has served in various capacities at the Harvard Medical School beginning as an instructor in medicine (1983-1987). Since 2015 he has been a professor of medicine at the Harvard Medical School[2]

He has helped to pioneer and deploy large institutional integrated clinical computing systems,[3] ambulatory electronic health records[4] and clinical decision support systems to help clinicians treat patients.[5]

He has worked at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center as a physician and former chief of the Division of Clinical Informatics. He has influenced medical informatics education and research, directed research programs and led clinical computing fellowships. He has also played a crucial role in developing biomedical informatics programs at Harvard Medical School and the development of the national board certification for clinical informatics.[6]

Outside academia, from 2007-2010, he was a senior scientist at the National Center for Public Health Informatics at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. He was CEO of Clinical Support Technology[7] (1999-2004) where he brought his ideas to a national market. The company's products and technology were acquired Eclipsys by a major health technology public company. He has over 150 peer-reviewed publications with over 10,000 citations [8] and speaks to national and international audiences.

Awards and honors

References

  1. ↑ "Dr. Charles Safran, MD – Newton, MA | Internal Medicine". Doximity. Retrieved 2024-01-01.
  2. ↑ "Dr. Charles Safran appointment at HMS". Harvard Medical School. Retrieved 2024-01-04.
  3. ↑ Safran, Charles; Rind, DM; Davis, RB; Sands, DZ; Caraballo, E; Rippel, K; Wang, Q; Rury, C; Makadon, HJ; Cotton, DJ (1995). "A clinical trial of a knowledge-based medical record". Proceedings of Medinfo. 8 Pt 2: 1076–80. PMID 8591371.
  4. ↑ Safran, Charles; Rury, C; Rind, DM; Taylor, WC (1991). "Outpatient medical records for a teaching hospital: beginning the physician-computer dialogue". Proceedings Annu Symp Comput Appl Med Care: 114–8. PMC 2247506. PMID 1807568.
  5. ↑ Gray, J; Pompilio-Weitzner, G; Jones, PC; Wang, Q; Coriat, M; Safran, C (1998). "Baby CareLink: development and implementation of a WWW-based system for neonatal home telemedicine". Proceedings of AMIA Symp: 351–5. PMC 2232075. PMID 9929240.
  6. ↑ Safran, Charles; Shabot, MM; Munger, BS; Holmes, JH; Steen, EB; Lumpkin, JR; Detmer, DE (2008). "Program requirements for fellowship education in the subspecialty of clinical informatics". J Am Med Inform Assoc. 16 (4): 158–66. doi:10.1197/jamia.M3046. PMC 2649323. PMID 19074295.
  7. ↑ "Clinician Support Technology". Clinical Support Technology. Archived from the original on 6 May 2004. Retrieved 31 December 2023.
  8. ↑ "Charles Safran publications on google scholar".
  9. 1 2 3 "AMIA Leadership Awards". AMIA.org. The American Medical Informatics Association. Retrieved 31 Dec 2023.
  10. ↑ "AMIA Leadership Awards". AMIA.org. The American Medical Informatics Association. Retrieved 31 Dec 2023.
  11. ↑ "Morris F. Collen Award of Excellence". Retrieved 31 Dec 2023.
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