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Gary Fischer

Professor of Medicine and Biomedical Informatics
Work Phone: 412-692-4888 Website: Department of Medicine Faculty Page
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Biography

Program Director, UPMC Clinical Informatics Fellowship
Associate Chief, Division of General Internal Medicine
Medical Director, Clinical Decision Support and Population Health Tools, Ambulatory eRecord (UPMC)
Board Certified, Internal Medicine and Clinical Informatics

Dr. Fischer has worked as a clinical informatician at UPMC since 2003 and has helped develop the patient portal (MyUPMC), and the ambulatory eRecord, including clinical decision support tools, documentation workflows, reports, dashboards, and population health workflows.

He has published research related to patient-facing decision-support tools, life-style management programs integrated into clinical workflows and the EMR, and the effectiveness of clinical decision support tools, both clinician facing and patient facing.