EVENTS

Digital Health: The Case for Standards-Based Modular Interoperability

Speaker’s bio:
Ida Sim, MD, PhD is a Professor of Medicine and Computational Precision Health, UCSF Director of the UCSF UC Berkeley Joint Program in Computational Precision Health, UCSF’s first Chief Research Informatics Officer, and a practicing primary care physician. Dr. Sim’s research focuses on the technology and policies for large-scale data sharing of health data. She co-founded Open mHealth, a nonprofit organization that defines the IEEE global open standard for patient-generated health data interoperability. Her current research develops new methods for integrating smartphone and sensor data for management of multiple chronic conditions in primary care. Dr. Sim is a member of the National Academy of Medicine and the American Society for Clinical Investigation, is a recipient of the United States Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), and a Fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics.