73: Dr. Gerasimos Petratos: Using Technology to Unlock New Frontiers in Health Data and Discovery

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Dr. Gerry Petratos co-founded and leads Hiteks Solutions as CEO and guides its efforts on unstructured data analytics and the re-use of clinical information to support decision support, clinical documentation improvement, clinical research, and reimbursement. Dr. Petratos was previously director of clinical decision support and Global Head of Healthcare Data Analytics at Roche, where he oversaw data-driven applications of clinical information management in protocol design, graphical medical review, analysis, reporting and publications. Dr. Petratos also conducted Adverse Drug Event detection research at Intermountain Healthcare and the University of Utah Health Sciences Center as part of a National Institutes of Health fellowship with the National Library of Medicine in Biomedical Informatics. Dr. Petratos earned his Bachelor's degree in Biology from Cornell, an MD from Howard and a Master’s in Healthcare Administration and Medical Informatics from the University of Utah. Dr. Petratos heads the alumni network for the Biomedical Informatics Department of the University of Utah, the oldest such Department in the country, and is on the Board of the Hellenic Medical Society of New York.