Amnon Shabo (Shvo)
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| Occupation | Records of Health - Revolutionizing healthcare through independent lifetime health records |
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| Introduction | Amnon Shabo (Shvo), PhD, specializes in health informatics and worked at IBM Research Lab in Haifa in years 2000-2014. He co-founded and chaired the Medical Informatics Community in IBM Research and headed the IBM worldwide program on healthcare & life Sciences standards. Amnon established and chairs two professional work groups: (1) the IMIA Work Group on Health Record Banking and (2) the EFMI Work Group on Translational Health Informatics. Amnon has been leading a few standardization activities: he established and co-chairs the HL7 Clinical Genomics Work Group and is a co-editor of the Clinical Document Architecture (CDA), Continuity of Care Document (CCD), the Family Health History (Pedigree) and the Genetic Testing Report (GTR) standards. Amnon specializes in longitudinal and cross-institutional Electronic Health Records and is a pioneer of the Independent Health Record Banks vision. |