Vice Chair - Robert Dolin MD
Dr. Dolin serves as the vice chair of the HL7 Board of Directors and has been involved with the organization since 1996. Dr. Dolin is an internationally renowned and innovative physician expert in healthcare information technology standards development with more than 20 years of clinical experience. After receiving his medical degree, he served as chief resident at UCLA Department of Medicine in 1989, where he developed Harbor UCLA’s first outpatient electronic medical record system. Dr. Dolin is a Fellow in the American College of Physicians, and was elected into Fellowship in the American College of Medical Informatics in recognition of his work on standards development. Dr. Dolin is President and Chief Medical Officer of Lantana Consulting Group, a healthcare consulting firm offering services and software for standards-based health information exchange. Previously, he spent 18 years as a Hospitalist at Kaiser Permanente, Department of Internal Medicine. At Kaiser, he was the physician lead for the enterprise terminology services team, responsible for deploying SNOMED in their national electronic health record. Dr. Dolin also co-chairs the HL7 Structured Documents Work Group, and is co-editor of the HL7 Clinical Document Architecture (CDA®) and the Continuity of Care Document (CCD®) specifications. He has also served on the SNOMED CT Content Committee, and currently co-chairs the US HITSP Foundations Committee. Dr. Dolin's work has also been published in both technical and clinical peer reviewed journals.
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