Henry C. Chueh

Biography

Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School Dr. Henry Chueh is one of the nation’s leading experts on medical informatics and a pioneer in the use of computers and Web-based applications to improve clinical research and patient care. He is the Director of Computer Science at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), Chief Medical Informatics Officer, Center for Quality and Safety and Chief, Division of Biomedical Informatics, Department of Medicine at MGH, and an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Chueh is the principal investigator on high profile medical informatics projects funded by research grants from the National Institutes of Health/National Library of Medicine (NLM), the National Cancer Institute (NCI), and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). Currently, with funding from a NIH National Center for Biomedical Computing ‘roadmap’ grant, Dr. Chueh and colleagues are designing and developing an interoperable software framework to provide clinical investigators with the tools to collect and manage project-related research data.

Research Interest

In another ongoing project, funded by AHRQ, he is developing an innovative system of care delivery (ACCORD—Ambulatory Care Compact to Organize Risk and Decision-making), to allow patients to partner with their physicians to monitor care to improve patient, provider, and quality of care outcomes. In collaboration with the NCI, Dr. Chueh was co-principal investigator on a research project to develop a national virtual repository of pathological specimens, and was contracted by the NIH/NLM to create a self-scaling national networked health system. Dr. Chueh has authored numerous peer-reviewed papers on the use of medical informatics and computer modeling to improve clinical decision-making and patient outcomes. Specifically, Dr. Chueh and colleagues have authored papers on the use of Web-based tools and informatics to manage diabetic patients, on the development of integrated platforms for clinical trial collaboration and education, and on the development and validation of predictive models to connect patients with primary care physicians. Dr. Chueh received his M.D. from Harvard Medical School and completed his primary care residency at MGH. Dr. Chueh also completed a Boston Medical Informatics Fellowship at MGH in association with the NLM. He has an M.S. from the Harvard-MIT Division of Heath Sciences & Technology, and a BA from Harvard-Radcliffe College.