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About Dr. John P. Glaser and The John P. Glaser Health Informatics Society

John P. Glaser, PhD, is widely known as a prominent thought leader in the field of health informatics. With more than 30 years in health IT, Dr. Glaser has continuously advanced patient care through substantive collaborative efforts among health information management executives, policy makers, government institutions, health care organizations, academia, and industry. In sum, his career has been focused on the effective use of information to improve health and health care in communities throughout the world. Dr. Glaser currently serves as senior vice president and member of the executive cabinet for Cerner Corporation.

The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) School of Biomedical Informatics (SBMI) has established The John P. Glaser Health Informatics Society in order to commemorate the life and work of Dr. Glaser, who is an internationally renowned exemplar of the health informatics field. Applied health informatics is an essential component of SBMI’s research and education mission.

For more information on the John P. Glaser Health Informatics Society click here.

About the 2022 Glaser Award Recipient – Clem McDonald, MD

Dr. Clem McDonald is the Chief Health Data Standards Officer of the NIH National Library of Medicine. For the previous 12 years, Dr. McDonald served as Director of the Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications (LHNCBC) and Scientific Director of its intramural research program.

His research focuses on electronic medical records (EMRs), their use in clinical care and research, the data standards needed to feed EMRs, and epidemiologic studies of the clinical databases. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, and has published more than 300 papers that have garnered 18,000 citations. Prior to coming to NLM, Dr. McDonald served as a distinguished Professor of Medicine and Medical Informatics at the Indiana University School of Medicine and Director of the Regenstrief Institute for Health Care, a privately endowed research institute tied to Indiana University.

Dr. McDonald developed the Regenstrief Medical Record, one of the first electronic health record (EHR) systems, and introduced the first use of decision support in randomized trials of health information systems in a 1976 study (McDonald, 1976). He and his colleagues developed the first U.S. Health Information Exchange (HIE), which was the model for the many HIEs that followed, and now carries 6 billion results from hospitals across Indiana. He developed the Logical Observation Identifier Names and Codes (LOINC) database to provide universal identifiers for clinical observations, and was co-author of the UCUM standard for computable units of measure, one of the founders and authors of the Health Level 7 (HL7) standard, and a major contributor to the genomics reporting chapter of the 2018 V2 laboratory results message. He is active in the development of the FHIR genomics reporting standard and FHIR input forms development (Questionnaire and Structured Data Capture), and has developed web-based software tools to generate executable web forms and clinical flowsheets.

Previous Glaser Award Recipients

2019 - Grahame Grieve, Founder of HL7 FHIR and FHIR Product Director at HL7 International - click here to read
2018 - H. Stephen Lieber, Principal of Avisos Partners, LLC, and former President & CEO of HIMSS - click here to read
2017 - Dr. David Westfall Bates, Harvard University - click here to read
2016 - Ivo. D. Nelson, CEO and Chairman, Next Wave Health - click here to read