WilliamAlanYasnoffMDPhD

Summary

• Dr. William Yasnoff, a well-known national leader in health informatics, is Managing Partner of National Health Information Infrastructure (NHII) Advisors, a consulting firm that helps communities and organizations successfully develop and deploy health information infrastructure systems and solutions. He is also Adjunct Professor of Biomedical Informatics and Data Science at Johns Hopkins University, and Founder and President of the non-profit Health Record Banking Alliance, which promotes community repositories of patient-controlled electronic health information. In his prior position at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, he established the NHII as a widely recognized national goal by initiating and organizing the activities resulting in the creation of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology in 2004 by Executive Order of the President of the U.S. Earlier, he implemented the first successful statewide immunization registry in the U.S. (in Oregon), then spent five years at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Atlanta) doing pioneering work to establish the field of public health informatics. He also served for 8 years as a Member of the Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice of the National Academy of Medicine, and for 20 years as Associate Editor, Journal of Biomedical Informatics. He was a Board Member of the American Medical Informatics Association in 2003-4, and has authored over 400 publications and presentations, including the “Health Information Infrastructure” chapter in the 5th Edition of the widely used textbook Biomedical Informatics: Computer Applications in Healthcare and Biomedicine (Springer, 2021), and Personal Health Records: The Essential Missing Element in 21st Century Healthcare (HIMSS, 2009). Dr. Yasnoff is a serial entrepreneur and spent several years as an advisor to a venture capital firm.