ABOUT THE RESEARCHER
OVERVIEW
Daniel Nigrin's research interests include development of web-based patient- provider communication systems, especially for patients with chronic diseases like diabetes mellitus, and development and implementation of large-scale electronic medical record systems, including implementation of medication error reduction techniques through use of technology. Dr. Nigrin also has significant experience in creation of easy to use tools to facilitate data mining of large clinical databases, for both research and clinical care purposes.
As Chief Information Officer at Boston Children's Hospital, he is responsible for all clinical, research, teaching and administrative IT systems at one of the world's preeminent institutions for pediatric clinical care and research, serving a staff of over 7000. As a practicing physician, medical informatics researcher, and information technology executive, he is in a unique position to put into practice cutting edge technologies and ideas developed by the Children's Hospital Informatics Program (CHIP) and other biomedical informatics centers of excellence, bringing advances to patient care practice, quality, and research, but all the while keeping in mind the needs and workflows of busy clinicians.
BACKGROUND
Dr. Nigrin received his MD from Johns Hopkins University, and and a Master's degree in Medical Informatics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Pediatric internship and residency were completed at Johns Hopkins, with fellowships at Boston Children's Hospital
Daniel Nigrin was named one of Computerworld's Premier 100 IT Leaders, 2005. He was a finalist for Best Overall Paper, American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Symposium, 2000 and won First Prize, Student Paper Competition, American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Symposium, 1998.
Selected Publications
- Nigrin DJ, Kohane IS. "Glucoweb: A Case Study of Secure, Remote Biomonitoring and Communication" Proc Amer Med Inform Assoc Ann Fall Symp, 610-614, November 2000, Los Angeles, CA.
- Nigrin DJ, Kohane IS. "Temporal Expressiveness in Querying a Timestamp- Based Clinical Database" J Am Med Inform Assoc 2000;7(2): 152-163.
- Nigrin DJ, Kohane IS. "Data mining by clinicians" Proc Amia Symp 1998:957 -61.
PUBLICATIONS
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- The effect of an electronic health record-based tool on abnormal pediatric blood pressure recognition. Congenit Heart Dis. 2017 Jul; 12(4):484-490. View abstract
- Preserving patient privacy and confidentiality in the era of personal health records. Pediatrics. 2015 May; 135(5):e1125-7. View abstract
- When 'hacktivists' target your hospital. N Engl J Med. 2014 Jul 31; 371(5):393-5. View abstract
- Mychildren's: integration of a personally controlled health record with a tethered patient portal for a pediatric and adolescent population. AMIA Annu Symp Proc. 2009 Nov 14; 2009:65-9. View abstract
- The Shared Information Network (SHRINE): A prototype federated query tool for clinical data repositories. J Amer.Med. Inform. Assoc. 2009; 16(5):624-630. View abstract
- The Shared Health Research Information Network (SHRINE): a prototype federated query tool for clinical data repositories. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2009 Sep-Oct; 16(5):624-30. View abstract
- Health IT for Kids, Pediatric Health IT and the Flu. Government Health IT. 2009; 3(5):3. View abstract
- Pharmacy Automation, High Tech Tools Close the Loop for Medication Safety. Most Wired. 2009. View abstract
- The Gene Partnership Project: Implementing the informed cohort model for the ethical recruitment and engagement of participant into genomic research. American Socity of Human Genetics . 2009. View abstract
- Whose personal control? Creating private, personally controlled health records for pediatric and adolescent patients. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2008 Nov-Dec; 15(6):737-43. View abstract
- The Importance of Technology in Healthcare. Inside The Minds: Updating Your Company's Technology Strategy. 2008. View abstract
- Medicine. Reestablishing the researcher-patient compact. Science. 2007 May 11; 316(5826):836-7. View abstract
- Characteristics at diagnosis of type 1 diabetes in children younger than 6 years. J Pediatr. 2006 Mar; 148(3):366-71. View abstract
- Integration of the personally controlled electronic medical record into regional inter-regional data exchanges: a national demonstration. AMIA Annu Symp Proc. 2006; 1099. View abstract
- Integration of the personally controlled electronic medical record into regional inter-regional data exchanges: a national demonstration. Proc AMIA Symp. 2006; 1099. View abstract
- Senior resident autonomy in a pediatric hospitalist system. Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2003 Feb; 157(2):206-7. View abstract
- Effect of a pediatric hospitalist system on housestaff education and experience. Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2002 Sep; 156(9):877-83. View abstract
- The personal internetworked notary and guardian. Int J Med Inform. 2001 Jun; 62(1):27-40. View abstract
- Impact of anatomic closure on somatic growth among small, asymptomatic children with secundum atrial septal defect. Am J Cardiol. 2000 Jun 15; 85(12):1472-5. View abstract
- Temporal expressiveness in querying a time-stamp--based clinical database. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2000 Mar-Apr; 7(2):152-63. View abstract
- Glucoweb: a case study of secure, remote biomonitoring and communication. Proc AMIA Symp. 2000; 610-4. View abstract
- Diabetes in Children. Cefalu WT, Clark NG, Leahy JL, editors. Medical Management of Diabetes Mellitus. 2000. View abstract
- Evolution to a Palm Pilot based intervention tracking tool for clinical pharmacists in a pediatric teaching hospital. American Society of Health-System Pharmacists, Midyear Clinical Meeting. 2000. View abstract
- System and method for performing stepwise querying of a timestamp-based database. 1999. View abstract
- Scaling a data retrieval and mining application to the enterprise-wide level. Proc AMIA Symp. 1999; 901-5. View abstract
- A New tool for Improved Research Utilization of Pediatric Clinical Databases. Pediatr Res. 1999; 45. View abstract
- Improved access to large medical databases for clinical research and quality improvement [dissertation]. 1999. View abstract
- Growth Calc: an antropometric calculator accessible via the World Wide Web. Soc Ped Research. 1999. View abstract
- Data mining by clinicians. Proc AMIA Symp. 1998; 957-61. View abstract
- ATRAS: a decision support application layered on the W3-EMRS architecture. Stud Health Technol Inform. 1998; 52 Pt 1:40-4. View abstract
- Methodology for computer-assisted prediction of growth hormone deficiency in children. Proc AMIA Symposium. 1998; 1088. View abstract
- IT? Give me what I'll use. Healthc Inform. 1997 May; 14(5):112. View abstract
- Implementation of Portable Decision Support Using the W-3 EMRS Architecture. Proc AMIA Symposium. 1997; (1997):879. View abstract
- ATRAS: A database-independent, computer-based retrieval and analysis system for functional adrenal hormone testing. Proc 79th Annual Meeting of the Endo Society. 1997. View abstract
- Automated 'pain drawing' analysis by computer-controlled, patient-interactive neurological stimulation system. Pain. 1992 Jul; 50(1):51-57. View abstract
- Patient-interactive, computer-controlled neurological stimulation system: clinical efficacy in spinal cord stimulator adjustment. J Neurosurg. 1992 Jun; 76(6):967-72. View abstract