Joseph Kannry, MD - Lead Technical Informaticist, EMR Clinical Transformation Group, Mount Sinai Health System and Professor of Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Dr. Kannry is a practicing board certified Internist at Mount Sinai’s IMA (Internal Medicine Associates). He has dual appointments in IT and Medicine at Mount Sinai Health System. Dr. Kannry is a Board Certified Clinical Informaticist and a graduate of the Yale Center for Medical Informatics, a National Library of Medicine training program in Informatics. Dr. Kannry is a frequent contributor to AMIA and HIMSS and was/is a member of the AMIA Task Force on Guidelines for the Clinical Use of Electronic Mail with Patients, AMIA Task Force on Applied Informatics, AMIA's Education Committee, AMIA’s Public Policy Committee, HIMSS’Ambulatory EMR Knowledge Resource Task Force, HL7 EHR Ambulatory Care Large Minimum Function Set: Ambulatory Care-Large, HISTP, Greater New York Hospital Association IT Steering Committee Chairman of Clinical Advisory Group for NYCLIX (New York Clinical Information Exchange), member of NYCLIX Steering Committee/Board, NYS ACP, Health Information Technology Committee, and the NYS/NYeC Collaborative Care Workgroup. Dr. Kannry was a member of the Scientific Program Committee for ITCH (Information Technology and Communications in Healthcare) 2007, the Fall 2011 AMIA Scientific Program Committee, and the 2014 iHealth Conference.
Of late he has been appointed a Contributor to the AMIA Usability Task Force which will establish a set of guiding principles and recommended policy actions related to electronic health record usability practice – design, evaluation, and testing. In 2009 he was elected Chair of the AMIA Clinical Information System Working Group (CIS-WG) with the term beginning in 2011 and subsequently re-elected chair with term ending in 2014. Dr. Kannry was asked to join in 2010 the NYS ACP Health Information Technology Committee (NYS-ACP HIT) and has subsequently been asked back to continue his work on NYS ACP HIT. . In 2012 Dr. Kannry was elected to serve as a member of the Davies Award(Enterprise) Committee for HIMSS. Since Mount Sinai was involved in submitting a Davies Award application at the time, Dr. Kannry was recused till 2013. As Chair of the AMIA CIS-WG, he has launched an annual debate on Informatics issues involving multiple workgroups at Fall AMIA. In 2012, under his leadership the CIS-WG lead a presympoisum spanning multiple workgroups on learning from HIT Success and Failure.