Welcome to the Shapiro Laboratory Health Informatics Site!

The lab is headed by Dr. Jason Shapiro, Professor and Chief of the Division of Informatics in the Department of Emergency Medicine, and Program Co-director of the Masters of Science in Biomedical Informatics in the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.

The laboratory’s research focuses on evaluating health information technology, with a specific focus on health information exchange, investigating its impact on quality measurement, care coordination, resource utilization, health care costs, and provider satisfaction. The laboratory works closely with Healthix, a health information exchange based in the downstate region of New York. Other areas of active research include ED information system implementation evaluation, terminology services, workflow integration strategies for health IT, public health, and biosurveillance.

The lab is also mapping proprietary CT codes across 40 sites in the Healthix to the newly combined LOINC/RSNA standard terminology and measuring reliability and content-dependent coverage, and developing a simple anatomic ontology for proximity or similarity (SANOPS) as the basis for a future HIE-based duplicate CT alerting system.