Directory Profile
Jose Piovanetti
Associate Research Professor
Department of Biomedical Informatics
Joined ASU in August 2008, his career in medical informatics (MI) began in 1984 when he worked in electronic medical records (EMR) combined with practice management (PM). The first physician in Puerto Rico to embrace MI as a field of study and work since the mid 1990’s, he began working on electronic healthcare information exchange (HIE) in 1996, the days of the Community Health Information Networks (CHINs), immediately following his MI fellowship at the Medical Sciences Campus of the University of Puerto Rico (in a collaborative IAIMS project), and continued this line of work until the emergence of Regional and National Healthcare Information Organizations, Networks (RHIO / NHIN) in 2004 as Senior Vice President of First Point Healthcare Group. In the mean time, translated the leading healthcare information exchange standards to Spanish for Latin-American countries to use, amongst these HL7, SNOMED, etc., and was head to HIPAA-implementation and compliance for the Government of Puerto Rico. In 2005 founded the Puerto Rico Healthcare Information Network (PRHIN), the first and only RHIO in the island, and made available the first “outpatient-CPOE” which in addition to providing master patient index (MPI) capabilities to a RHIO, included capabilities to manage eligibilities for Hispanics [where the use of double last-names and use of maiden names by married females is widespread]; an issue not tackled by predominantly U.S. baseline-focused systems. Also, made available his outpatient-CPOE as an open source project to provide an alternative CPOE solution to cash-constrained providers and networks with services such as e-Prescribing (RxHub & SureScripts Certified), e-Labs (ELINCS-compliant), e-Imaging and all other medical Orders and Results (ONCHIT-, AHIC- and CHI-compliant) transactions. Holds Patent Pending’s for several CPOE-capabilities [which he waives to certified non-for-profit exchanges/entities]
One of the few hands-on experts in health information exchange, he has a unique perspective and knowledge of health information transactions standards, implementation and interface mapping, development validation and certification thanks to his technological and clinical backgrounds. A proponent of predictive modeling to prevent patients from falling victims to disease, he is also a proponent of open source for collecting, storing and managing clinical information whenever a worthy open source solution is available. He has expertise in many technologies, amongst these UML OOD, OOP, Eclipse, Java, Omnis, Apache Tomcat, MySQL, Drug Databases (MediSpan, FirstDatabank, …) Linux, BSD, NCPDP, ANSI X12N, HL7, XML, etc.
Finally, he’s credited with more than two dozen publication in peer-reviewed and professional societies journals in Puerto Rico and Latin America, and continues to be a constant invited speaker about EMRs and electronic health information exchange (from 1991 to date.)
Education
M.D. - Universidad Central del Caribe School of Medicine 1995
B.S. Biology, Biochemistry and Computer Sciences - Interamerican University of Puerto Rico 1986
Medical Informatics Fellow - UPR Medical Sciences Campus & Mass. General / Harvard Medical School 1998
Contact Info
Office Location: ABC 238
Phone: 602.827.2555
Email: josepiovanetti@asu.edu
Website: http://bmi.asu.edu
Research/Areas of Expertise
- Electronic Medical/Health Records
- Health Information Exchange/Technology
- Transactions Standards
- Concept Encoding
- Systems Interfaces
- Outpatient CPOE
- Unique Patient ID
Honors and Distinctions
- Editor and Publisher Stereopsis (Newspaper for the Ophthalmology Section of the Puerto Rico Medical Association) 1991-1992.
- Technical Editor Full Duplex (Computer-industry Newsletter for the Caribbean) 1998
- “Utilization of Resources and Establishing Total Quality Management for the Dorado Family Health Center.” Universidad Central del Caribe, School of Medicine 1994
- Polyantigenic Vaccine (PAV) in HTLV-3 Infected Patients. Minority Biomedical Research Support (N.I.H. Grant# RR08159-08) 1987
- TRI-BETA (chapter Zeta-Zeta) Biology, Biochemistry and Chemistry Honor Society 1986
Selected Publications
“Health Information Networks” – White Paper; 1996 (2nd Release as “PRHIN RHIO; 2004)
“Computer-based & Electronic Medical Records (CbEMR)” - White Paper; 1995 (2nd Release, 2000)
“Clinical Data Repository and HL7 Messages Repository/Store - Informática Médica; 1997.
“Redes, Mensajes y HL7: Entendiendo su Importancia en los Sistemas Nacionales de Salud.”- Informática Médica; 1997.
“The Internet” - MR News; 1996
“Medical Receivables” – RMI; 1995
“The Ultimate Technology in Health Care...? Something portable and possibly on the way”- MR News; 1995
“How to Evaluate Programs for Medical Institutions; a buyers guide” – Stereopsis; 1992.
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