Research seminar: February 8, 2019

Information Retrieval from the Electronic Health Records for Patient Cohort Discovery

February 8, 2019


William Hersh, MD is a leader and innovator in biomedical informatics both in education and research.

In education, he developed and serves as the Director of OHSU’s graduate biomedical informatics education programs. His research program originally focused on information retrieval (also known as search).

His most recent work examines the quantity and characteristics of the workforce that is needed to successfully implement health information technology, especially in clinical settings.