Dr. Lawrence Garber, M.D.
Medical Director for Informatics
Reliant Medical Group, Atrius Health, USA
Dr. Garber is a practicing Internist and the Medical Director for Informatics at Reliant Medical Group (formerly known as Fallon Clinic, and a member of Atrius Health). He has had decades of experience and success in Medical Informatics. Shortly after joining Reliant in 1986, he led the practice through an extensive redesign of their paper medical record system. Twenty years later, he successfully led the replacement of these paper records with Epic's Electronic Health Record system for the group's 1 million visits each year.
Dr. Garber is Chair of the Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative's Executive Committee, a member of the Massachusetts State Health Information Technology Council, and a member of ONC Policy Committee's Health Information Exchange Workgroup and Privacy & Security Tiger Team. He has been Principal Investigator on $3.5 Million AHRQ and HHS/ONC grants to develop innovative Health Information Exchanges. Dr. Garber also co-chairs the ONC S&I Framework Longitudinal Coordination of Care Workgroup which is using an evidence-based approach to update the HL7 Consolidated CDA to meet the needs of care transitions and care planning.
Dr. Garber has long been a proponent for patient safety, having co-authoring articles in JAMA and JAMIA on Adverse Drug Events in the ambulatory setting.
Dr. Garber is recipient of the 2010 eHealth Initiative eHealth Advocate Award, the 2011 Health Data Management EHR Game Changer Award, an ONC Health IT Fellow, and led the HIMSS 2011 Davies Award-winning implementation of Reliant's EHR system and the 2013 recognition of it achieving HIMSS Ambulatory Stage 7.