Shaun Grannis, MD, MS, FAAFP
Director and Principal
Investigator for DRI-ICE
sgrannis-AT-regenstrief.org
Dr. Grannis is a Research Scientist with the Regenstrief Institute, Inc. and Assistant Professor of Family Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine. He received an Aerospace Engineering degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and underwent post-doctoral training in Medical Informatics and Clinical Research at Regenstrief Institute and Indiana University School of Medicine. He joined Indiana University in 2001 and collaborates closely with national and international public health stakeholders to advance the technical infrastructure and data-sharing capabilities. Dr Grannis is a member of World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Center for the Design, Application, and Research of Medical Information Systems, where he provides consultancy on issues related to health information system identity management; implementing automated patient record matching strategies; and collaborating with WHO on the design, development, and implementation of enterprise medical record system architectures.
Dr. Grannis recently completed an analysis of automated regional electronic laboratory reporting that revealed substantial increases in the electronic capture rates for diseases of public health significance when compared to traditional, manual, paper-based procedures. With federal funding from the National Library of Medicine, Dr. Grannis developed methods to protect the privacy and confidentiality of protected health information used for public health syndromic surveillance. Dr. Grannis is project director for an ongoing initiative integrating data flows from over 120 hospitals across the state of Indiana for use in public health disease surveillance and clinical research. For the last 5 years this 24x7 system has received real-time data from participating hospitals amounting to more than 2 million transactions per year, and has detected public health outbreaks of gastrointestinal illness, carbon monoxide poisoning, and other events of interest to public health. Most recently this system was leveraged (and continues to be leveraged) to monitor H1N1 influenza disease burden across the state of Indiana.
He oversees the development of an operational standards-based laboratory data interfaces between public health clinical laboratories and an electronic clinical messaging application used by both public health officials and clinicians. This system, based on one of the nation's largest and longest-tenured Health Information Exchanges, adjudicates more than 50 million real-time clinical transactions from hundreds of data sources yearly to assess their reportability to public health. As co-chair of the U.S. Health Information Technology Standards Panel (HITSP) Population Health technical work group, Dr. Grannis helped lead the development of technical Interoperability Specifications for nationally recognized public health IT use cases.