Brian Jacobs, MD, MS

Dr. Brian Jacobs is the VP of Clinical Informatics and International Products at eClinicalWorks, a major electronic health record (EHR) corporation.  He oversees product quality, standards, safety, and client relationships for the company, directing a team of clinicians, innovators, and analysts.  In addition, Dr. Jacobs oversees the international EHR development efforts at eClinicalWorks.

Prior to this, Dr. Jacobs was the Vice President, CMIO and Chief Information Officer (CIO) at Children's National Medical Center in Washington, D.C., He is currently a faculty member at Johns Hopkins University, George Washington University, a board certified pediatric critical care physician and board certified clinical informaticist.  As an award winning executive leader at eClinicalWorks, Children's Hospital Medical Center in Cincinnati Ohio and Children's National Medical Center for the last 25 years, Dr. Jacobs has set strategic direction, operational excellence, innovation and proven outcomes in the use of technology to improve care delivery, safety and quality for patients including safe electronic prescribing, efficient and effective physician and nursing documentation, clinician engagement, positive patient identification, medication reconciliation and integrated communication.

His work has been recognized regionally, nationally, and internationally.   While in Washington DC, Dr. Jacobs developed and directed a regional health information exchange for children (The Children's IQ Network) with participation of 410 independent providers – a centerpiece for population health and clinical integration efforts in the DC metropolitan region.  In addition, he has developed multiple unique and successful health technology partnerships nationally and internationally.  Dr. Jacobs has successfully led multiple information system go-lives of ambulatory and inpatient EHR and information systems including Cerner, Epic, eClinicalWorks and PeopleSoft across several health systems.

He has established a major academic presence including 375 invited lectures and scientific presentations, peer-reviewed publications, book chapters, scientific abstracts and conferences convened.  He has been the principal or co-investigator on numerous research grants with $3.4M funding in aggregate.  He has led teams overseeing and insuring high performing computing infrastructure, biomedical engineering, disaster recovery and business continuity, and a comprehensive approach to minimizing vulnerability to cyber threats.  Dr. Jacobs has led teams in new corporate growth areas including population health, clinically integrated network development, patient engagement initiatives and integrated telemedicine.

Education

• BA, Biology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
• MS, Biochemistry, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR
• MD, Medicine, Oregon Health & Sciences University, Portland, OR
• Residency, Pediatrics, Naval Regional Medical Center, San Diego, CA
• Fellowship, Pediatric Critical Care, Children's National Medical Center, Washington, DC

Research

• Shea PL, Spaeder MC, Sayal P, Jacobs BR, Stockwell DC.  Hypoglycemia Adverse Events in PICUs and Cardiac ICUs: Differentiating Preventable and Nonpreventable Events.  Pediatr Crit Care Med 2013;July 16. 
• Stockwell DC, Kirkendall E, Muething SE, Kloppenborg E, Vinodrao H, Jacobs BR.  Automated adverse event detection collaborative: Electronic adverse event identification, classification and corrective actions across academic pediatric institutions.  J Patient Safety 2013;9:203-10.
• Shaw  SJ, Jacobs BR, Stockwell DC, Futterman CA, Spaeder MC.  Effect of a Real-Time PICU Safety Bundle Dashboard on Quality Improvement Measures. The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety 2015;41:414-420.
• McMillan JE, Meier ER, Winer JC, Coco M, Daymont M, Long S, Jacobs BR.  Clinical and Geographic Characterization of 30-Day Readmissions in Pediatric Sickle Cell Crisis Patients.  Hos Pediatrics 2015;5:423-31. 
• Atabaki SM, Jacobs BR, Brown KM, Shahzedi S, Heard-Garris NJ, Chamberlain MB, Grell RM, Chamberlain JM. Quality Improvement in Pediatric Head Trauma with PECARN Rules Implementation as Computerized Decision Support.  Pediatr Qual Saf 2017;2:e019.
• Mulugeta Y, Yao L, Mould D, Jacobs BR, Florian J, Smith P, Sinha V, Barrett J.  Leveraging Big Data in Pediatric Drug Development: Proceedings from the 2016 American College of Clinical Pharmacology Annual Meeting Symposium.  Clin Pharm Therapeutics 2018;104:81-87.
• Mbwana J, Grinspan Z, Bailey R, Berl MM, Buchhalter JR, Bumbut A, Danner Z, Glauser T, Glotstein A, Goodkin H, Jacobs BR, Jones J, Kroner B, Lapham G, Loddenkemper T, Maraganore DM, Nordli D, Gaillard WD.  Using Electronic Health Records to Advance Epilepsy Care.  Neur Clin Pract 2019;9:83-88.
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• Jacobs B, Mico L, Shah N.  Unveiling the Power and Potential of Large Language Models: A High-Level Overview. HIMSS 2023

Teaching

Current

• Health Information Technology

Previous

• Health Information Technology
• Innovation and Entrepreneurship