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Professor and Chairman
Professor of Medical Informatics,
Chairman of the Department of Radiology and Medical Informatics at Geneva University,
Director of the Division of Medical Informatics at Geneva University Hospitals,
and President of the Health-On-the-Net Foundation
Antoine Geissbuhler is a Professor of Medical Informatics, Chairman of the Department of Radiology and Medical Informatics at Geneva University, Director of the Division of Medical Informatics at Geneva University Hospitals, President of the Health-On-the-Net Foundation. He trained as a physician at Geneva University where he specialized in internal medicine, then, after a post-doctoral fellowship, became Associate Professor of medical informatics at Vanderbilt University. Author of more than 100 original scientific publications, his current research focuses on the development of innovative, knowledge-enabled information systems and computer-based tools for improving the quality, safety and efficiency of care processes, at the local level of the hospital (http://www.sim.hcuge.ch), the regional level of a community healthcare informatics network, and at the global level with the Health-On-the-Net Foundation (http://www.hon.ch) and with the development of a large telemedicine network in Africa (http://raft.hcuge.ch).
The Medical Informatics Service, strong of 70+ academic and professional collaborators, is responsible for the design, development and evaluation of an advanced clinical information system for Geneva University Hospitals (HUG), a group of primary, secondary, and tertiary care facilities, employing 10’000 collaborators, totaling 2’200 beds, 50’000 admissions and 750’000 outpatient visits each year. The clinical information system includes a multidisciplinary- multimedia electronic patient record, care provider order entry, clinical decision support tools, a picture archiving and communication system (PACS) as well as palmtop-based clinical assistants and various telemedicine applications. Research activities of the Service include medical knowledge representation, distributed knowledge management, data mining and knowledge discovery, natural language processing, advanced medical image processing, information systems architectures, telemedicine, and internet-based learning. |
