Senthil Nachimuthu

Current

• Medical Informaticist at University of Utah / 3M Health Information Systems
• PhD Candidate in Biomedical Informatics at University of Utah

Past

• House Officer (Medical Intern) at Government Stanley Hospital

Education

• University of Utah
• University of Utah School of Medicine
• Tamil Nadu Doctor M.G.R. Medical University

• Tamil Nadu Doctor M.G.R. Medical University

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Connections

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Industry

Hospital & Health Care

Websites

• My Website

Senthil Nachimuthu’s Summary

I am a medical informaticist / informatician and a physician, specializing in clinical decision support systems and biomedical terminologies / ontologies. I am also a computer programmer for more than ten years. My professional interests are to enhance clinical care by contributing to research and development in biomedical informatics, especially in clinical decision support (probabilistic and temporal reasoning), biomedical ontologies and terminologies, data mining, and patient safety. I am also a co-author and editor of the HL7 Common Terminology Services version 2 (CTS2) standard.

Senthil Nachimuthu’s Specialties:

Clinical decision support and artificial intelligence (especially probabilistic and temporal reasoning)
Data mining and machine learning
Biomedical ontologies and terminologies, knowledge engineering
Systems architecture and design, computer programming

Senthil Nachimuthu’s Experience

• Medical Informaticist

  University of Utah / 3M Health Information Systems

  (Hospital & Health Care industry)

  May 2004 — Present (5 years 7 months)

  Terminology and Ontology Research and Development with 3M Health Information Systems, through a collaboration with the University of Utah.

• PhD Candidate in Biomedical Informatics

  University of Utah

  (Hospital & Health Care industry)

  August 2001 — Present (8 years 4 months)

  My dissertation topic is "Temporal Reasoning in Medicine using Dynamic Bayesian Networks". Expected to complete in early Spring 2008.

• House Officer (Medical Intern)

  Government Stanley Hospital

  (Educational Institution; 5001-10,000 employees; Hospital & Health Care industry)

  June 1999 — May 2000 (1 year )

Senthil Nachimuthu’s Education

• University of Utah

  PhD , Biomedical Informatics , 2001 — 2008

• University of Utah School of Medicine

  PhD , Biomedical Informatics , 2001 — 2008

  My other research interests are biomedical terminology and ontology, knowledge engineering and patient safety in electronic clinical information systems.

  Activities and Societies:

  My PhD research involves clinical decision support systems. My dissertation topic is "Temporal reasoning in medicine using dynamic Bayesian networks".

• Tamil Nadu Doctor M.G.R. Medical University

  MBBS , Medicine , 1994 — 2000

  Apart from my medical training, I also provided consultation for the Department of Surgical Gastroenterology and the Institute for Research and Rehabilitation of Hand and the Department of Plastic Surgery to computerize some medical data.

  Activities and Societies:

  Medical student from 1994 to 1999 at Stanley Medical College, Tamil Nadu Dr. M.G.R. Medical University.
  Intern (House Officer) from 1999 to 2000 at Government Stanley Hospital from 1999 to 2000.

• Tamil Nadu Doctor M.G.R. Medical University

  MBBS , 1994 — 2000

Additional Information

Senthil Nachimuthu’s Websites:

• My Website

Senthil Nachimuthu’s Interests:

Biomedical Informatics, (synonyms: medical informatics, health informatics), Clinical Decision Support Systems, Temporal Reasoning in Medicine, HL7 Patient Safety

Senthil Nachimuthu’s Groups:

Eclipse OHF, AMIA OS-WG, AMIA, SNOMED, HL7, HIMSS, IAMI, IAMI Curriculum Committee

•    Open HealthCare
•    Medical Device Networkers
•    University of Utah Biomedical Informatics Alumni and Faculty
•    Asia Pacific Association for Medical Informatics (APAMI)
•    Health Informatics Technology (HIT)
•    CHIRAD
•    Healthcare Analytics and Informatics, Healthcare Analytics, Healthcare Informatics
•    IMIA
•    Health Care Informatics
•    Healthcare Informatics
•    Indian Association for Medical Informatics
•    HealthCare Information Technology
•    Medical_Informatics
•    Health Informatics
•    Canadian Health Informatics
•    Utah Entrepreneurs
•    AMIA members( American Medical Informatics Association)
•    Not for Profit Healthcare-India
•    Clinical Informatics
•    Concept Hub
•    Official Group of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA)

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