Jonathan Gold, MD, MHA, MSc, FAMIA, FHIMSS

Jonathan Gold is an Israeli board-certified pediatrician with 15 years of hospital and ambulatory care practice. In addition to his clinical practice, he has extensive experience, training, and expertise in medical informatics and medical quality assurance. Currently, Dr. Gold is the Clinical Innovation Lead for Intelligent Medical Objects, a leading terminology and vocabulary tool service. Previously, Dr. Gold served as Regional Chief Medical Informatics Officer for Catholic Health Initiatives. He has been an independent physician consultant advising hospital IT teams as they introduce and implement institutional clinical applications. Additionally, Dr. Gold has consulted as a physician development and content analyst for two major healthcare IT vendors, adding decision support and content to their computerized provider order entry systems, meeting CCHIT requirements, and developing workflows, concept models, and functional designs for e-Prescribing, electronic medical records and advanced clinical documentation. Beginning in 1997, Dr. Gold served as a regional medical quality assurance director for the second largest health maintenance organization in Israel for seven years. In 2001, he earned a masters degree in health administration from Ben-Gurion University in Israel. In 2006, Dr. Gold completed a National Library of Medicine post-doctoral fellowship in Health Sciences Informatics at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. At Hopkins, Dr. Gold received both a masters degree in health sciences informatics and a post-masterís certificate in information technology and telecommunications. His research focused on electronic health records, with a particular emphasis on personal health records and health record banking. Dr. Gold has been a subject matter expert on health record banking, presenting to the National Committee on Vital and Health Statisticsí Ad Hoc Workgroup on Secondary Uses of Data, the National Library of Medicine Informatics Training Conference, the Center for Information Technology Leadership, the Fifth National Medical Banking Institute, and Johns Hopkins Division of Health Sciences Informatics. Awarded the Israel Medical Association and Israel Scientific Councilís first annual award for Outstanding Work Presented by a Medical Resident on Quality Assurance, Dr. Gold is also a recipient of Ben Gurion Universityís Gulton Grant, and St. Johnís Collegeís first annual Fooks Science Award. Between 2009-2013, Dr. Gold served as the Physician at Large for the Colorado Chapter of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Board of Directors and since 2014 has been a Fellow of HIMSS. He also maintains membership in the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA), the Israel Medical Association, the Israel Society of Clinical Pediatrics, and other professional organizations. Dr. Gold remains focused on the development of a consumer oriented approach to healthcare, the practical needs of the medical provider, and the considered goals of a comprehensive health care strategy.