• Provide clinical leadership for the Urgent Care as well as Primary Care technical projects.  Regular presenter for Quarterly meetings.
• Assisted with development of an A3 project to improve clinician efficiency with Excellian (Epic)
• Created new SmartLinks to bring specific classes of medications into clinical documentation
• Created Epic CDS rules to help guide Physicians to better clinically appropriate tests.

ALLINA MEDICAL CLINIC – Urgent Care Physician Minneapolis, MN; 2008 – Present

• Created Oracle/SQL databases in concert with C# tools to allow clinicians to efficiently fine tune ClinicNote content for varied clinical venues and EMR capacities.
• Co-led development of automated quality assurance procedures that improved consistency and clinical relevance to ClinicNote content.
• Used National Library of Medicine databases, SNOMED CT, RX Norm to analyze/normalize content.
• Streamlined content review, cutting review time from 5 minutes down to 30 seconds, reducing mouse clicks from 75 to 1 for clinicians doing the reviews.
• Developed clinical content for Electronic Medical Record vendors.  ClinicNote was then able to help customers meet meaningful use criteria.
• Aided development of Clinical Decision Support (CDS) rules to improve healthcare in Tamil Nadu India, population 70 million:
  • Redesigned the web interface by organizing the way Physicians think about the disease. This cut the time it took to test the CDS rules by 1/4 and increased accuracy.   Video!  It’s long but shows what we are expected to deal with as clinicians everyday!
  • Designed an automated testing system, using Excel/Javascript/HTML, to allow thorough testing of hundreds of interacting rules, increasing confidence in the quality of medical advice being given.
  • Created clinical decision support rules to manage diabetes and breast cancer screening results.

ALLINA MEDICAL CLINIC – Family Physician – Richfield, MN; 1999-2009

• Served a diverse patient population from infancy to geriatrics.
• Improved care of patients with diabetes, coronary vascular disease, and hypertension.
• Assisted partners in the transition to Epic, coaching them to more efficient use of this popular EMR.

REGIONS MEDICAL CENTER – Family Medicine Resident – St. Paul, MN; 1996-1999

• Trained in a high-acuity acute care hospital with a broad patient population.
• Excellent intensive care/coronary care unit, general medical/post surgical ward exposure.

Boston Scientific (formerly Cardiac Pacemakers Incorporated) – Electrical Engineer – Arden Hills, MN; 1989 – 1991

• Developed software to display sequential electrical potentials in 3-D, recorded from a beating heart. This aided development of defibrillation electrodes.
• Remains in use currently (R. Salo Phone conversation circa January 2016).

Education

• M.D. – University of Minnesota Medical School
• B.S. Electrical Engineering – University of Minnesota Institute of Technology

Technical Skills

Certifications

• American Board of Preventive Medicine in Clinical Informatics (12/16/2016)
• Physician Builder – Analytics Certification – Epic 2017
• American Board of Family Medicine-MOC
• MN Board of Medical Practice (7/2019)
• Basic Life Support-pending
• Advanced Cardiac Life Support-pending

Publication

S.D. Anderson, G. Cornelissen, F. Halberg, “Age Effects upon the Harmonic Structure of Human Blood Pressure”.  Proc Second Ann I.E.E.E. Symp Compu Based Med Syst.

He created his own clinical IT consulting company with two key goals:

• Improve the practice of clinical medicine to benefit patients through superior support of clinician workflow, improving the use of technology.

• Bridge the technology/medical industry gap to improve the safety/efficacy and cost of care.  We have brilliant clinicians plodding along with sub-standard tools while equally brilliant software developers create solutions that the clinicians do not need.