William M. Tierney, MD, MACP, FACMI, FIAHSI, FRCP-London

Health care quality and outcomes depend on having the right information in the right hands in the right place at the right time to make the right decisions.

Initiatives

Research Scientist, William M. Tierney Center for Health Services Research, Regenstrief Institute, Inc.
Research Scientist, Clem McDonald Center for Biomedical Informatics, Regenstrief Institute, Inc.
Associate Dean for Population Health & Health Outcomes, Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health
Clinical Professor, Department of Community and Global Health, Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health
Affiliated Faculty, Indiana University Center for Global Health Equity
Professor Emeritus and Chancellor’s Professor Emeritus, Indiana University School of Medicine
Professor (part-time), Departments of Population Health, Internal Medicine and Oncology, University of Texas at Austin Dell Medical School

Dr. Bill Tierney is a professor of Community and Global Health and Associate Dean for Population Health & Health Outcomes at Indiana University’s Fairbanks School of Public Health as well as a part-time professor of Population Health at the University of Texas at Austin’s Dell Medical School. He served as the founding chair of Dell Med’s Department of Population Health from 2015-2020 but has spent the rest of his career at IU where he served as President/CEO of the Regenstrief Institute, IU School of Medicine’s Associate Dean for Comparative Effectiveness Research, and Chief of Medicine at Wishard/Eskenazi Health, the nation’s fourth largest safety net health system where he practiced primary care, emergency medicine and hospital medicine for 35 years.

Dr. Tierney’s research focuses on improving healthcare delivery and its outcomes through developing and implementing electronic health record systems and health information exchanges in Indiana, Texas and East Africa while conducting clinical database epidemiologic studies using these data. He has been elected to the U.S. National Academy of Medicine and is a master in the American College of Physicians and a fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics (ACMI), the International Academy of Health Sciences Informatics and the Royal College of Physicians of London. He served as president for the Society of General Internal Medicine (SGIM) and ACMI and has received SGIM’s John M. Eisenberg and Robert J. Glaser Awards for Research and Generalism, ACMI’s Morris F. Collen Award for Career Achievements in Biomedical Informatics, and the National Award for Career Achievements from the Association for Clinical and Translational Science.

Featured Projects

AMPATH-Mexico

(Eli Lilly Co.)

Role: Co-Investigator

Replicating IU’s AMPATH Kenya model of mutually beneficial, long-term transnational collaboration in Puebla Mexico by creating a mutually beneficial partnership between IU, the University of Texas at Austin, and Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla.

Indiana CTSI's Reciprocal Innovation Program

(NIH/NCATS)

Role: Co-Investigator

Overseeing an internal funding program for feasibility studies that identify opportunities to improve health in low-to-middle income countries and Indiana.

Data and Analytics for Evaluation in AMPATH/MAPAS México

(Dell Medical School Global Health AMBIA Program)

Role: Principal Investigator

Establish an infrastructure for AMPATH/MAPAS México for capturing and storing data and conducting analyses

Highlighted Publications

Sep. 20, 2022

User-centered design of a clinical tool for shared decision making about diet in primary care

Publication: Journal of General Internal Medicine

doi: 10.1007/s11606-022-07804-x

Authors: Tierney WM, Henning JM, Altillo BS, Rosenthal M, Nordquist E, Copelin K, Li J, Enriquez C, Lange J, Larson D, Burgermaster M

July 25, 2022

Reciprocal innovation: A new approach to equitable and mutually beneficial global health partnerships

Publication: Global Public Health

doi: 10.1080/17441692.2022.2102202

Authors: Sors TG, O'Brien RC, Scanlon ML, Bermel LY, Chikowe I, Gardner A, Kiplagat J, Lieberman M, Moe SM, Morales-Soto N, Nyandiko WM, Plater D, Rono BC, Tierney WM, Vreeman RC, Wiehe SE, Wools-Kaloustian K, Litzelman DK

Mar. 11, 2021

The importance of community impact as a fourth academic mission: A qualitative assessment

Publication: Population Health Management

doi: 10.1089/pop.2021.0004

Authors: Tierney WM, Auzenne D, Cook L, Jones BL, Mackert M, Paydarfar D, Ding X, Woods JM

Apr. 12, 2019

The emergence of population health in U.S. academic medicine: A qualitative assessment

Publication: JAMA Network Open

doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2019.2200

Authors: Gourevitch MN, Curtis LH, Durkin MS, Fagerlin A, Gelijns AC, Platt R, Reninger BM, Wylie-Rosett J, Jones K, Tierney WM

Aug. 9, 2015

Assessing the impact of a primary care electronic medical record system in three Kenyan rural health centers

Publication: Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

doi: 10.1093/jamia/ocv074

Authors: Tierney WM, Sidle JE, Diero LO, Sudoi A, Kiplagat J, Macharia S, Shen C, Yeung A, Were MC, Slaven JE, Wools-Kaloustian K

Dec. 6, 2014

Provider responses to patients controlling access to their electronic health records: A prospective cohort study

Publication: Journal of General Internal Medicine

doi: 10.1007/s11606-014-3053-0

Authors: Tierney WM, Alpert S, Byrket A, Caine K, Leventhal JC, EM, Schwartz PH

June 25, 2013

“These are good problems to have…”: Establishing a collaborative research partnership in East Africa

Publication: Journal of General Internal Medicine

doi: 10.1007/s11606-013-2459-4

Authors: Tierney WM, Nyandiko WN, Siika AM, Wools-Kaloustian K, Sidle JE, Kiplagat J, Bell A, Inui T

2010

the Tanzania-Uganda OpenMRS Consortium. Experience implementing electronic health records in three East African countries

Publication: Studies in Health Technology and Informatics

doi: 10.3233/978-1-60750-588-4-371

Authors: Tierney WM, Achieng M, Baker E, Bell A, Biondich P, Braitstein P, Kayiwa D, Kimaiyo S, Mamlin B, McKown B, Musinguzi N, Nyandiko W, Rotich J, Sidle J, Siika A, Were M, Wolfe B, Wools-Kaloustian K, Yeung A, Yiannoutsos C

Jan. 20, 1993

Physician inpatient order writing on microcomputer workstations: Effects on resource utilization.

Publication: JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association

doi: 10.1001/jama.1993.03500030077036

Authors: Tierney WM, Miller ME, Overhage JM, McDonald CJ

May 24, 1990

The effect on test ordering of informing physicians of the charges for outpatient diagnostic tests

Publication: New England Journal of Medicine

doi: 10.1056/NEJM199005243222105

Authors: Tierney WM, Miller ME, McDonald CJ

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