Anil Jain

VP & Chief Health Information Officer, Watson Health at IBM.

Focused on the intersection of information technology, informatics, clinical medicine and innovation, Dr. Anil Jain is VP and Chief Health Informatics Officer at IBM Watson Health. He was Co-Founder, Senior VP and Chief Medical Officer of Explorys, Inc. formed in 2009 based on innovations that he developed while at the Cleveland Clinic. In April 2015, Explorys was acquired by IBM as an integral component of the newly formed Watson Health business unit. In 2017, he was appointed by Congress to the Federal Health IT Advisory Committee established by the 21st Century Cures Act.

After obtaining a Biomedical Engineering degree and Medical degree from Northwestern University, Dr. Jain trained at the Cleveland Clinic and subsequently joined the Department of Internal Medicine in 1998. In addition, as a physician executive, he served as Senior Executive Director of IT where he led several innovations in research and quality informatics and created solutions to monitor the “meaningful use” of health IT to support the EHR Incentive Program. In addition, as a physician inventor, he co-founded Explorys in 2009 and joined full-time as Chief Medical Officer in 2011 until the acquisition by IBM Watson Health in 2015.

Details last updated 03-Jul-2020

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Improvement in diabetic patients from big data

Modern Healthcare - 22-Aug-2015

11% improvement in a comprehensive measure of diabetes management. Mercy Health identifies patie...