Northbrook, IL – October 9, 2018 – Intelligent Medical Objects, Inc. (IMO Health), the market leader in terminology services for healthcare IT, announced the appointment of Chief Medical Officer, Andrew S. Kanter, MD MPH FACMI to the Board on Global Health (BGH) for the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Dr. Kanter is one of 20 prominent physicians, dentists, scientists and lawyers who were selected to serve a three-year term on the Board.
The mission of the Board is to provide expert analysis and judgments to the National Academies, the United States government, and to other appropriate audiences, on the meaning to the United States of health developments beyond its borders, and areas of U.S. international health investment that are most likely to benefit the health of the U.S. population and promote global well-being, security, and economic development.
Dr. Kanter has extensive US health care informatics experience, working 20 years with IMO Health where he helped develop the terminology solutions used by more than 80 percent of the US primary care and acute care markets, providing a critical foundation for health information systems serving over 550,000 providers.
“I am honored to be included on the BGH, said Dr. Kanter, “and I hope that I can contribute a unique perspective to this important work.”
In addition to his leadership role at IMO Health, Dr. Kanter is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Biomedical Informatics and Clinical Epidemiology at Columbia University focused on the application of ICT to health in the developing world. He supported the development and implementation of the Millennium Villages Global-Network (MVG-Net) for the Millennium Villages Project (MVP) and currently directs the Columbia International eHealth Lab (CIEL) in the Department of Biomedical Informatics which continues to support eHealth work around the world through CIEL and the OpenMRS network.
Dr. Kanter will leverage his significant international and domestic experience in engaging physicians and other health care providers with interoperable and accessible health information and tools to solve real world health problems.
