Dr. Barry Hieb
Since August, 2008 Dr. Hieb has been the Chief Scientist for Global Patient Identifiers Inc. Prior to that he was a research director in the Gartner Healthcare Industry Research and Advisory Service for 10 years. He is a physician with over 30 years’ experience in medical informatics. In previous positions Dr. Hieb held the position of product planning manager for the Sunquest clinical data repository and earlier held a similar position with First Data Corporation. He served as a chief architect of healthcare solutions for 7 years in the Healthcare Marketing Group of Digital Equipment Corporation. He also has experience as an academic computing person for 15 years in one of the teaching hospitals associated with Washington University Medical School in St. Louis, Mo. Dr. Hieb’s expertise includes the computer-based patient record (CPR) as well as numerous supporting applications and technologies such as enterprise master person indexes, controlled medical vocabularies, clinical decision support systems, medical speech & natural language processing, and healthcare information architectures. In addition, he has been active in healthcare national standards efforts, particularly concerning plans for a national individual healthcare identifier. Dr Hieb received his BA from Bethel College in Newton, Kansas and his Medical Degree and Master’s Degree in Computer Science from Washington University in Saint Louis.
Dr Hieb performs research on a variety of healthcare and technology subjects that include the following:
· Computer based patient record systems, vendors and applications
· Enterprise master person index systems
· National individual healthcare identifier
· Trends and predictions in the healthcare industry
· Technologies used to support computer based patient records: (speech systems, natural language processing, controlled vocabularies, single sign-on systems)
· Issues relating to physician acceptance and use of CPR systems
· Architectural approaches to computer based patient record systems and applications: (data dictionaries, security systems, boundary managers, user interfaces, clinical decision support)
Dr. Hieb has been a long-term participant in the ASTM E31 standards group where he has focused on requirements for a national healthcare identification system. He has published numerous articles analyzing aspects of a national individual healthcare identifier including the benefits offered by such a system and practical aspects required to implement it.