Medical Informatics: An Executive Primer

Book by Ong, Ken, Ed.

Dr. Ong is currently the Director of Clinical Information Systems at the North Shore - LIJ Health System. Dr. Ong's past projects include developing and implementing the clinical decision support for the ambulatory EMR in the HIV clinic and the hospital pharmacy system; implementing web-based results review, and physician charge capture. Dr. Ong is the President of the New York State chapter of the Health Information Management and Systems Society (HIMSS); Past President of Medical Informatics New York; a member of the advisory board of the Doctors Office Quality IT (DOQ-IT) initiative of the Island Peer Review Organization (IPRO); and, a reviewer for the Informatics Review and the International Journal of Medical Informatics. He is a senior lecturer at Columbia University s Mailman School of Public Health and his medical informatics seminar was among the top rated in 2005. He is a previous recipient of the AMDIS Award In Applied Medical Informatics and the Centers for Disease Control Charles C. Shepard Science Award. Dr. Ong is a former deputy commissioner in the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.