Chien-Yeh Hsu
Chair
Asia Pacific Association for Medical Informatics
Overview
Professor Chien-Yeh Hsu is currently a Professor and the Chairman of the Department of Information Management, National Taipei University of Nursing and Health Sciences. Prof. Hsu is also currently the President of Taiwan Association for Medical Informatics. He became a fellow of the International Academy of Health Sciences Informatics (FIAHSI). The Academy, which is part of the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA), serves as an honor society that recognizes expertise in biomedical and health informatics internationally and is one of the highest honors in the field.
His research domain includes electronic medical/health record, clinical/hospital information system, medical information standards, biomedical data sharing/processing/analysis, e-health/cloud computing infrastructure, biomedical database, and biomedical signal processing.
He was a member of HIMSS Analytics Asia Senior Executive Advisory Committee and a member of HIMSS Asia Pacific Governing Council from 2013 to 2015 and 2020 to present. Also, he had been helping on the promotion of the HIMSS EMRAM in Taiwan.
In 2019, Prof. Hsu lead the department of NTUNHS to obtain the certificate (effective from 2018 to 2024) from the Higher Education Evaluation and Accreditation Council of Taiwan (HEEACT).
From 2017 until now, Prof. Hsu has also been leading the collaboration of the Taiwan eHealth Association with AeHIN on hosting the conference, “AeHIN-Taiwan Health IT Collaboration Workshop” for seven times at different places around South-east Asia area.
He has been working on various topics in medical informatics for more than twenty years now. He has published various articles in Journal Medical Internet Research, The Journal on Information Technology in Healthcare, Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine, Expert Systems with Applications, PLOS ONE, European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, Methods of Information in Medicine, International Journal of Andrology, Communications in Computer and Information Science, Telemedicine and e-Health, and The Journal of Taiwan Association for Medical Informatics.
He was the President of Taiwan Association for Medical Informatics from 2008 to 2011, and had served as the Editor in Chief of the Journal of Taiwan Association for Medical Informatics since 2004 to 2007. Professor Hsu is also a member of the board of HL7 Taiwan and Taiwan Association for Nursing Informatics. Prof. Hsu was also the President of the Taiwan eHealth Association from 2015 to 2021.
Prof. Hsu continues to contribute his efforts in networking with partners to share his knowledge and experience on medical informatics and health management. He continues to share his experience on the best practices such as the Taiwan's national health insurance system and hospital information systems. He is expecting to contribute his knowledge on applying information technology to healthcare to improve patient care across the Asia-pacific region.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
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Director of Computer Center, National Taipei University of Nursing and Health Sciences
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Professor and Director, Graduate Institute of Medical Informatics, Taipei Medical University
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Chairman, Bioinformatics Computing Center, Taipei Medical University
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President, Taiwan e-Health Association
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Standing Supervisor, Supervisory Board, Health Level Seven (HL7) Taiwan
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Executive Director, Board, Taiwan Nursing Informatics Association
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Editor-in-Chief, The Journal of Taiwan Association for Medical Informatics, Taiwan Association for Medical Informatics
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Project Manager, Product Development Office, Institute for Information Industry
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Associate Researcher, The Department of Hearing and Language Sciences, University of Illinois