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Floyd Eisenberg, MD, MPH, FACP is the senior vice president for health information technology (HIT) at the National Quality Forum (NQF). Dr. Eisenberg is responsible for leading the
development and direction of NQF’s HIT strategies and projects aimed at
facilitating the establishment of electronic data sources capable of supporting
performance measurement and public reporting.
Dr. Eisenberg is an internal medicine physician with a
subspecialty in infectious diseases with eleven years in clinical practice,
four years as a managed care medical director, and more than 10 years in the
informatics field. His primary focus has been repurposing data for use in
population health, outcome reporting, research and surveillance activities, and
alignment with electronic health record formats. Before joining NQF, Dr.
Eisenberg worked as a senior key expert with Siemens Healthcare, where he led
quality-related IT industry efforts.
Dr. Eisenberg has served as co-chair of the Healthcare
Information Technology Standards Panel (HITSP) Population Perspective Technical
Committee of the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), and co-chair of
Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) Quality, Research & Public
Health Domain Technical Committee. He also participated in NQF’s Healthcare
Information Technology Expert Panel (HITEP) and served as the 2007 co-chair of
the Performance Measure and Integration and Reporting Workgroup of the
Collaborative for Performance Measure Integration with Electronic Health Record
Systems.
Dr. Eisenberg received his MD from Pennsylvania State
University and his MPH from the Medical College of Wisconsin. He is board
certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine in infections diseases and
conducted a fellowship in infectious diseases at Temple University.