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Jerome A. Osheroff

Jerome A. Osheroff, MD, FACP, FACMI
Chief Clinical Informatics Officer

For over two decades, Dr. Jerry Osheroff has helped healthcare organizations and clinicians use clinical decision support solutions to improve care processes and outcomes, guide national policy on CDS, lead academic research into clinical information management, and direct development of commercially successful clinical decision support tools.

As chief clinical informatics officer, Dr. Osheroff ensures that Thomson Reuters' decision support offerings are optimally responsive to clinician, patient, and management information needs, and that they measurably improve healthcare outcomes.

Dr. Osheroff was lead author of the 2006 white paper commissioned by the U.S. Health and Human Services Department titled “A Roadmap for National Action on Clinical Decision Support” and was co-chair of the AMIA working group that created the report. Dr. Osheroff is working with HHS and a variety of public and private organizations in the U.S. and abroad to execute the recommendations outlined in the roadmap, serving as senior advisor to the AHIC Quality Workgroup and as a member of the AHIC ad-hoc CDS Workgroup.

Dr. Osheroff serves on the faculty and clinical staff of the University of Pennsylvania Health System and is a fellow of the American College of Physicians and the American College of Medical Informatics. He received degrees in both electrical engineering (with distinction) and medicine (Alpha Omega Alpha) from George Washington University. Osheroff is board-certified in internal medicine, and he completed an internal medicine residency and fellowships in general internal medicine and medical informatics at the University of Pittsburgh.