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Public Biography
Dr. Burton is the Sr. Vice President of Clinical Informatics and Knowledge Engineering for Apervita, Inc. focused on shareable analytics (knowledge assets, AI/ML services) for clinical best practices in learning health systems. His areas of expertise include Applied Clinical Informatics- clinical workflow analysis, cognitive support interventions, clinician UX, and Knowledge Engineering as well as Health Systems and Industrial Engineering. He has lead practice initiatives and taught graduate level courses in these areas and mentored numerous graduate students, post-docs, and physician trainees at the Regenstrief Institute, Purdue University, Mayo Clinic, and Arizona State University. He is passionate about leveraging computational advantage together with collective domain expertise to support Clinician Cognition, inclusive of Learning Health Systems endeavors, to optimize knowledge-intensive work in biomedicine. He actively participates in industry and standards efforts and is a Co-Editor of the HL7 Clinical Practice Guidelines Implementation Guide (CPG-on-FHIR). Dr. Burton served as an Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics at Mayo Clinic and the Lead Clinical Informatician for the Applied Clinical Informatics Program where he lead initiatives in practice redesign, workflow optimization, cognitive support, advanced analytics and knowledge-enriched data. He lead a major Practice Redesign effort using a Learning Health System approach to Clinical Pathways, Clinical Registries, and Practice Analytics as well as initiatives for concurrent capture and analysis of Source System Semantics and Clinical Workflow pre-EHR implementation.

Affiliations

Fellows of AMIA (FAMIA)

FAMIA stands for “Fellow of the American Medical Informatics Association” and it recognizes the contributions and professional accomplishments of AMIA members who apply informatics skills and knowledge to their practice – be that in a clinical setting, a public or population health capacity, or as a clinical researcher.

Year Inducted
2021
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