Raj Gopalan, MD, MSIS is a senior physician executive with more than 30 years of experience, half of that in clinical medicine and the other half in healthcare information technology. He is an internist, as well as an NLM fellow with formal training and degree in informatics. Key skills include . . .
- Design, development, and implementation of an award winning EMR system at UNC Health, that is acquired by Siemens Health care, a large global technology company. Management of 40 ancillary departmental systems and their integration with the main EMR system including Agfa PACS Radiology and Soft computer corporation and Cerner LIS system.
- As a corporate medical director/RCMIO, managing the implementation and optimization of CPOE systems in hospitals across the US. All of them qualified for Leapfrog, meaningful use and federal incentives to the tune of over $10 million dollars. All these hospitals got certified for HIMSS Level 7.
- Development of state of the art, clinical decision support systems, at Wolters Kluwer, to enable providers to deliver the highest quality of personalized care, promptly and efficiently resulting in optimal outcomes. Winning companywide global innovation award for data driven clinical decision support using machine learning.
- Working as a CMIO/global head of clinical decision support, to leverage AI/ML to deliver the next generation of CDS from the perspective of lab diagnostics, as well as to integrate different diagnostic modalities to deliver clinical intelligence at the point of care for better diagnostic and therapeutic decisions.
He has shown that AI/machine learning of laboratory data, that is more abundant and extremely objective has a key potential role in early diagnosis of various cancers, chronic diseases, life threatening infections.