Designing for Quality: eHealth Development Workshop
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)/Advanced Technology Program, the National Cancer Institute (NCI), the National Library of Medicine (NLM), and the Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
NIST, Gaithersburg, MD
June 24-25, 2003

Dr. Richard Johannes is Vice President of Clinical Affairs at Cardinal Health-MediQual in Marlborough, MA, where he leads the research and development for clinical outcomes and pharmacy information products. MediQual provides the clinically based risk adjustment outcome metrics used by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania for their statewide public reporting of acute care hospital performance.

Dr. Johannes also maintains an appointment in gastroenterology at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School. Prior to joining Cardinal Health, he was Vice President of Clinical Development at Datamedic in Waltham, MA where he lead two NIST ATP grants that lead to the development of the CHARTnote toolset for gastrointestinal endoscopic reporting. From 1979-1989, Dr. Johannes was a faculty member in Gastroenterology and Biomedical Engineering at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

While at Johns Hopkins, he was awarded the Dean's Certificate of Excellence in Teaching and was the recipient of Baker Award for Outstanding Clinical Care. He was an advisor to Former President Jimmy Carter and the Carter Foundation on gastrointestinal epidemiology. In 1989, he was appointed as Co-chairman of the Data Acquisition subcommittee of the Patients and Professionals Committee to the Institute of Medicine Project on Patient Records. He has over 75 publications in the area of medical informatics, with an emphasis on data capture through structured note generation.

His education includes a B.A. in Chemistry from the University of Wisconsin in 1968, an M.D. in Medicine from The Johns Hopkins University in 1972, as well as an M.S. in Computer Science from The Johns Hopkins University in 1986.