Blackford Middleton, MD, MPH, MSc, FACP, FACMI, FHIMSS
Blackford Middleton is Director of Clinical Informatics Research & Development, and Chairman of the Center for Information Technology Leadership (CITL) at Partners Healthcare System, and Assistant Professor of Medicine at Brigham and Womens Hospital, Harvard Medical School, and of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard School of Public Health.
As Director for Partners Clinical Informatics Research & Development, he participates in the development of Partners enterprise clinical systems strategy, and leads software product management for the Partners EMR, patient portal, enterprise clinical decision support, and knowledge management services, and conducts clinical informatics research. He was a co-founder of CITL at Partners in 2002, and leads its research in value-based technology assessment. In 2004, CITL began its National Library of Medicine-sponsored Fellowship Program in Medical Informatics and Information Technology Assessment, where Dr. Middleton serves as Fellowship Program Director.
Prior to joining Partners Healthcare, and Harvard Medical School, he was Medical Director of Information Management and Technology at Stanford University Medical Center, from 1992 to 1995, and during this time co-founded the Institute for Decision Systems Research in Palo Alto, CA. Later, he was Senior Vice President for Clinical Informatics and Chief Medical Officer for MedicaLogic/Medscape, a provider of electronic medical records software (Logician), professional and patient portals (Medscsape.com, and AboutMyHealth.com) from 1995 to 2001. He has over 150 publications and invited presentations on electronic and personal health records, clinical decision support, and related policy and technical issues.
Dr. Middleton was elected to serve on the National Committee of Vital and Health Statistics (NCHVS) in 2008, and serves on the American Health Information Community (AHIC) EHR Breakthrough Workgroup, and the AHIC2.0 Planning Group. He serves also on the Board of Stewardship Trustees for the Catholic Health Initiatives system, the Advisory Boards for Intercomponentware, Inc., and the Medical Knowledge Institute, the Connecting for Health Steering Committee at the Markle Foundation, and several Editorial Boards. He is Treasurer of the American College of Medical Informatics, and is past Chairman of the Computer-based Patient Record Institute (CPRI), and of the Healthcare Information Management & Systems Society (HIMSS). Dr. Middleton is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians, the American College of Medical Informatics, and HIMSS. Dr. Middleton was recognized by Modern Physician as one of the Top 50 (#36) most influential US physician executives in 2005, and by Modern Healthcare as one of the top 300 most influential people in healthcare in 2008.
Dr. Middleton studied Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, and Biochemistry, at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He received an MD from SUNY Buffalo, and was trained in internal medicine at the University of Connecticut Health Sciences Center. He received a Masters in Public Health degree from Yale University School of Medicine with a dual concentration in Chronic Disease Epidemiology, and Health Services Administration. His Fellowship in General Internal Medicine was at Stanford University, where he received his Master of Science degree in Health Services Research, focusing on medical informatics.
