William Hersh, MD FACMI, FACP Professor and Chair Department of Medical Informatics & Clinical Epidemiology (DMICE) Oregon Health & Science University Email: hersh@ohsu.edu Web: www.billhersh.info Blog: informaticsprofessor.blogspot.com Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/billhersh Twitter: @williamhersh
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Some Key Resources

• A five-minute video of the OHSU Biomedical Informatics Program
• The blog of the OHSU Department of Medical Informatics & Clinical Epidemiology, Health Data, Information, and Action
• A five-minute video of the OHSU Informatics Discovery Lab
  
• My blog, Informatics Professor
  
• Overview of the 10x10 ("ten by ten") course
  
• A Wordle of my scientific publishing from Sciverse
• A citation profile in Google Scholar (Last I checked, my h-index ranks 24th all-time among biomedical informatics researchers and 15th all-time among information retrieval researchers.)
  
• My Web page, What is Biomedical and Health Informatics?, which provides an overview of the field via links and a voice-over-Powerpoint lecture
• Seventh edition of a general textbook of health informatics, co-edited with Robert Hoyt, Health Informatics: Practical Guide, which is available in paper and eBook format
• Third edition of my book, Information Retrieval: A Health and Biomedical Perspective

New

• The new 7th edition of the textbook, Health Informatics: Practical Guide, co-edited by Robert Hoyt and myself
• Slides and references from my presentation, Biomedical and Health Informatics: Careers and Opportunities for Graduate Study, at the Oregon Computer Science Teachers Association, Newberg, OR, March 17, 2018
  
• Slides and references from my presentation, Caveats and Recommendations for Re-Use of Large-Scale Operational Electronic Health Record Data, Association for Medical and Bio-Informatics, Singapore (AMBIS) and National Supercomputing Centre, Singapore, February 22, 2018
  
• Slides and references from my presentation, IR Meets EHR: Retrieving Patient Cohorts for Clinical Research Studies, Centre International de Mathematiques et d'Informatique, University of Toulouse, Toulouse, France, February 8, 2018
  
• Slides and references from my presentation, Biomedical and Health Informatics: Careers and Opportunities for Graduate Study, at Willamette University, Salem, OR, November 30, 2017
  
• Slides and references from my talk to the Portland State University New Beginnings in Computer Science Program, Biomedical and Health Informatics: Careers and Opportunities at the Intersection of Computer Science and Biomedicine, October 6, 2017
  
• Slides and references from my talk at the OHSU School of Medicine Educators' Collaborative Grand Rounds, A Quarter-Century of Innovation in Informatics Education at OHSU: History and Lessons Learned, October 4, 2017
  
• Slides and references from my lecture to OHSU first-year medical students, Information is Different Now That You're a Doctor, September 1, 2017
  
• Slides and references from my Webinar, Research in Biomedical Information Retrieval at OHSU, Pacific Northwest National Lab and Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, July 13, 2017
  
• Slides and references from my Webinar, Implementing Clinical Informatics in the MD Curriculum and Beyond, Association of Faculties of Medicine of Canada, June 13, 2017
  
• Slides and references from my lecture, Biomedical Information Retrieval, in the OHSU course, CSE 535/635: Information Retrieval: Methodologies, Implementation, Evaluation, Portland, OR, May 18, 2017
  
• Slides and references from my Webinar, Big Data Is Not Enough: People and Systems Are Needed to Benefit Health and Biomedicine, H3ABioNet Seminars series, Pan African Bioinformatics Network for H3Africa, April 18, 2017
  
• Slides and references from my course lecture at the NLM Georgia Biomedical Informatics Course entitled, What is Biomedical Informatics?, Young Harris, GA, April 3, 2017 (updated from previous course lectures on April 4, 2016 and September 12, 2016)
• Slides and references from my talk, Failure to Translate: Why Have Evidence-Based EHR Interventions Not Generalized?, at The Patient, the Practitioner, and the Computer, Providence, RI, March 19, 2017
  
• Slides and references from my talk, Big Data Is Not Enough: People and Systems Are Needed to Benefit Health and Biomedicine, at Data Day Health, Austin, TX, January 15, 2017
  
• Slides and references from my talk, The TREC Bio/Medical Tracks, Celebrating 25 Years of TREC Conference, National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST), Gaithersurg, MD, November 15, 2016
  
• Slides from my presentation, The Full Spectrum Biomedical and Health Informatics Education at Oregon Health & Science University, AMIA Annual Symposium Learning Showcase, Chicago, IL, November 14, 2016
  
• Slides from my workshop on Evidence-Based Informatics at the Clinical Informatics Fellows' Retreat, University of Illinois College of Medicine, Chicago, IL, November 12, 2016
  
• Slides and references from my Clinical Informatics Grand Rounds, Challenge Evaluations in Biomedical Information Retrieval, OHSU, Portland, OR, November 3, 2016
  
• Slides and poster about the Department of Medical Informatics & Clinical Epidemiology from the Biomedical Information Communication Center (BICC) Building 25th Anniversary Celebration, Portland, OR, October 28, 2016
  
• Slides and references from Grand Rounds at Geisinger Health System, Danville, PA, October 19, 2016
  
• Slides and references from my course lecture in the BD2K Guide to the Fundamentals of Data Science Series, Webinar, September 16, 2016
  
• Slides and references from keynote talk at HIMSS AsiaPAC 2016, Bangkok, Thailand, August 25, 2016
• Slides and references from Grand Rounds at Bangkok Hospital, Bangkok, Thailand, August 22, 2016
  
• Slides and references from keynote talk at BioCreative: Critical Assessment of Information Extraction in Biology Workshop 2016, Corvallis, OR, August 1, 2016
  
• Slides and references from keynote talk at Medical Information Retrieval Workshop, SIGIR 2016, Pisa, Italy, July 21, 2016
  

Biography

Presence

• Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/billhersh
• Twitter - https://twitter.com/williamhersh
  
• We encourage everyone to like our informatics program on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/ohsu.informatics.
• We have also established a Facebook page for the OHSU offering of the AMIA 10x10 Program: http://www.facebook.com/ohsu10x10. 
• On LinkedIn, we have established a group there for our informatics program as well. 

Address

Education

• 1979   B.S., Biology, University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana
• 1984   M.D., University of Illinois at Chicago
• 1987   Certificate, Computer Science, Harvard University Extension School

Postdoctoral Training

• 1984-1985   Internship in Internal Medicine, University of Illinois Hospital
• 1985-1987   Residency in Internal Medicine, University of Illinois Hospital
• 1987-1990   Research Fellowship in Medical Informatics, Harvard University

Professional Positions

• 1987-1989   Urgent Care Physician, Harvard Community Health Plan, Medford, MA
• 1989-1990   Attending Physician, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA
• 1989-1990   Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School
• 1990-1995   Assistant Professor of Medicine and Medical Informatics, OHSU
• 1992-1994   Physician Liaison, Hospital Information Systems Division, University Hospital, OHSU
• 1994-   Graduate Faculty, School of Medicine, OHSU
• 1995-2000   Associate Professor, OHSU
• 1996-   Director, Educational Programs in Biomedical Informatics, OHSU
• 1997-2003   Head, Division of Medical Informatics and Outcomes Research, OHSU
• 1997-2007   Associate Director, Agency for Health Care Research and Quality (AHRQ) Evidence-Based Practice Center, OHSU
• 2000-   Professor (with tenure), OHSU
• 2003-   Chair, Department of Medical Informatics & Clinical Epidemiology, OHSU
• 2006-2014   Director, Biomedical Informatics Program, Oregon Clinical and Translational Research Center, OHSU
• 2007-   Director and Principal Investigator, OHSU NLM Biomedical Informatics Training Program
  

Publications

Peer-Reviewed Papers

2. Kronfol NO, Hersh WR, Barakat MM, Effects of 25(OH)-Vitamin D in hypocalcemic patients on chronic hemodialysis, Transactions of the American Society for Artificial Internal Organs, 1987, 33: 289-292.

3. Greenes RA, Tarabar DB, Krauss M, Anderson G, Wolnik WJ, Cope L, Slosser E, Hersh WR, Knowledge management as a decision support method: a diagnostic workup strategy application, Computers and Biomedical Research, 1989, 22: 113-135.

4. Greenes RA, Tarabar DB, Krauss M, Cope L, Slosser E, Hersh WR, Pattison-Gordon E, Abendroth T, Rathe R, Snydr-Michal J, Explorer-2: an object-oriented framework for knowledge management, MEDINFO 89, 1989, 29-33.

5. Hersh WR, Greenes RA, SAPHIRE: an information retrieval system featuring concept matching, automatic indexing, probabilistic retrieval, and hierarchical relationships, Computers and Biomedical Research, 1990, 23: 410-425.

6. Hersh WR, Greenes RA, Information retrieval in medicine: state of the art, M.D. Computing, 1990, 7: 302-311.

7. Hersh WR, Pattison-Gordon E, Greenes RA, Evans DA, Adaptation of Meta-1 for use in SAPHIRE, a general-purpose information retrieval system, Proceedings of the 14th Annual Symposium on Computer Applications in Medical Care, 1990, 156-160.

8. Hersh WR, Evaluation of Meta-1 for a concept-based approach to the automated indexing and retrieval of bibliographic and full-text databases, Medical Decision Making, 1991,11: S120-124.

9. Evans DA, Hersh WR, Monarch IA, Lefferts RG, Handerson SK, Automatic indexing of abstracts via natural language processing using a simple thesaurus, Medical Decision Making, 1991, 11: S108-S115.

10. Hersh WR, Hickam DH, Haynes RB, McKibbon KA, Evaluation of SAPHIRE: an automated approach to indexing and retrieving medical literature, Proceedings of the 15th Annual Symposium on Computer Applications in Medical Care, 1991, 808-812.

11. Hersh WR, Hickam DH, A comparative analysis of retrieval effectiveness for three methods of indexing medical literature, American Journal of the Medical Sciences, 1992, 303: 293-300.

12. Hersh WR, Evans DA, Monarch IA, Lefferts RG, Handerson SK, Gorman PN, Indexing effectiveness of linguistic and non-linguistic approaches to automated indexing, MEDINFO 92, 1992, 1402-1408.

13. Evans DA, Chute CG, Handerson SK, Yang Y, Monarch IA, Hersh WR, Mapping vocabularies using “latent semantics,” MEDINFO 92, 1992, 1462-1468.

14. Hersh WR, Hickam DH, Leone TJ, Words, concepts, or both: optimal indexing units for automated information retrieval, Proceedings of the 16th Annual Symposium on Computer Applications in Medical Care, 1992, 644-648.

15. Hersh WR, Hickam DH, A comparison of two methods for indexing and retrieval from a full-text medical database, Medical Decision Making, 1993, 13: 220-226.

16. Hersh WR, Hickam DH, Haynes RB, McKibbon KA, A performance and failure analysis of SAPHIRE with a MEDLINE test collection, Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 1994, 1: 51-60.

17. Hersh WR, Relevance and retrieval evaluation: perspectives from medicine, Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1994, 45: 201-206. 

18. Evans DA, Cimino JJ, Hersh WR, Huff SM, Bell DS, Toward a medical concept representation language, Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 1994, 1: 207-217.

19. Hersh WR, Buckley C, Leone TJ, Hickam DH, OHSUMED: an interactive retrieval evaluation and new large test collection for research, Proceedings of the 17th Annual ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval , 1994, 192-201.

20. Hersh WR, Hickam DH, Use of a multi-application computer workstation in a clinical setting, Bulletin of the Medical Library Association, 1994, 82: 382-389.

21. Hersh WR, Elliot DE, Hickam DH, Wolf SL, Molnar A, Leichtenstein C, Towards new measures of information retrieval evaluation, Proceedings of the 18th Annual Symposium on Computer Applications in Medical Care , 1994, 895-899. (Also published in Proceedings of the 18th Annual ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 1995, 164-170.)

22.  Friedman C, Huff SM, Hersh WR, Gordon EP, and Cimino JJ, The Canon Group's effort: working toward a merged model, Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 1995, 2: 4-18.

23. Hersh WR, Hickam DH, An evaluation of interactive Boolean and natural language searching with an on-line medical textbook, Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1995, 46: 478-489.

24. Hersh WR, Hickam DH, Information retrieval in medicine: the SAPHIRE experience, Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1995, 46: 743-747.

25. Hersh WR, The electronic medical record: promises and problems, Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1995, 46: 772-776.

26. Hersh WR, Leone TJ, The SAPHIRE server, Proceedings of the 19th Annual Symposium on Computer Applications in Medical Care, 1995, 858-862.

27. Hersh WR, Pentecost J, Hickam DH, A task-oriented approach to retrieval evaluation, Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1996, 47: 50-56.

28. Hersh WR, Brown KE, Donohoe LC, Campbell EM, Horacek AE, CliniWeb: managing clinical information on the World Wide Web, Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 1996, 3: 273-280. 

29. Hersh WR, Campbell EM, Evans DA, Brownlow ND, Empirical, automated vocabulary discovery using large text corpora and advanced natural language processing tools, Proceedings of the 1996 AMIA Annual Symposium, 1996, 159-163.

30. Ertle AR, Campbell EM, Hersh WR, Automated application of clinical practice guidelines for asthma management, Proceedings of the 1996 AMIA Annual Symposium, 1996, 552-556.

31. Evans DA, Brownlow ND, Hersh WR, Campbell EM, Automating concept identification in the electronic medical record:  an experiment in extracting dosage information, Proceedings of the 1996 AMIA Annual Symposium, 1996, 388-392.

32.  Spackman KA, Hersh WR, Recognizing noun phrases in medical discharge summaries: an evaluation of two natural language parsers, Proceedings of the 1996 AMIA Annual Symposium, 1996, 155-158.

33. Hersh WR, Campbell EM, Malveau SE, Assessing the feasibility of large-scale natural language processing in a corpus of ordinary medical records: a lexical analysis, Proceedings of the 1997 AMIA Annual Symposium, 1997, 580-584.

34. Detmer WM, Barnett GO, Hersh WR, MedWeaver: integrating decision support, literature searching, and Web exploration using the UMLS Metathesaurus, Proceedings of the 1997 AMIA Annual Symposium, 1997, 490-494.

35. Hersh W, Leen T, Rehfuss S, Malveau S, Automatic prediction of trauma registry procedure codes from emergency room dictations, MEDINFO 98, 1998, 665-669.

36. Hersh WR, Hickam DH, How well do physicians use electronic information retrieval systems? A framework for investigation and systematic review, Journal of the American Medical Association, 1998, 280: 1347-1352.

37. Hersh WR, Information retrieval at the millenium, Proceedings of the 1998 AMIA Annual Symposium, 1998, 38-45.

38. Ash JS, Gorman PN, Hersh WR, Physician order entry in U.S. hospitals, Proceedings of the 1998 AMIA Annual Symposium, 1998, 235-239.

39. Munoz FR, Hersh WR, MCM Generator: a Java-based tool for generating medical metadata, Proceedings of the 1998 AMIA Annual Symposium, 1998, 648-652.

40. Zacks MP, Hersh WR, Developing search strategies for detecting high quality reviews in a hypertext test collection, Proceedings of the 1998 AMIA Annual Symposium, 1998, 663-667.

41. Hersh WR, Donohoe LC, SAPHIRE International: a tool for cross-language information retrieval, Proceedings of the 1998 AMIA Annual Symposium, 1998, 673-677.

42. Lowe HJ, Antipov I, Hersh WR, Smith CA, Toward knowledge-based retrieval of medical images. The role of semantic indexing, image content representation, and knowledge-based retrieval, Proceedings of the 1998 AMIA Annual Symposium, 1998, 882-886.

43. Malet G, Munoz F, Appleyard R, Hersh WR, A model for enhancing Internet medical document retrieval with “medical core metadata,” Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 1999, 6: 183-208.

44. Hersh WR, “A world of knowledge at your fingertips”: promise, reality, and future directions, Academic Medicine, 1999, 74: 30-33. 

45. Ash JS, Hersh WR, Krages KP, Morgan JE, Schumacher R, The Oregon IAIMS:  then and now, Bulletin of the Medical Library Association, 1999, 37: 347-349.

46. Hersh W, Price S, Kraemer D, Chan B, Sacherek L, Olson D, System and user attributes associated with successful searching, Advances in Digital Libraries ’99, 1999, 60-70.

47. Lowe HJ, Antipov I, Hersh WR, Smith CA, Representing images in the multimedia electronic medical record combining semantic indexing and image content-based representation to support knowledge-based retrieval of medical images, Methods of Information in Medicine, 1999, 38: 303-307.

48. Hersh W, Ball A, Day B, Masterson M, Zhang L, Sacherek L, Maintaining a catalog of manually-indexed, clinically-oriented World Wide Web content, Proceedings of the 1999 AMIA Annual Symposium, 1999, 790-794.

49. Price S, Hersh W, Filtering Web pages for quality indicators: an empirical approach to finding high quality consumer health information on the World Wide Web, Proceedings of the 1999 AMIA Annual Symposium, 1999, 911-915.

50. Caton K, Hersh W, Williams J, Implementation and evaluation of a virtual learning center for distributed education, Proceedings of the 1999 AMIA Annual Symposium, 1999, 491-495.

51. Ash JS, Gorman PN, Hersh WR, Poulsen SB, Perceptions of house officers who use physician order entry, Proceedings of the 1999 AMIA Annual Symposium, 1999, 471-475.

52. Stead WW, Miller RA, Musen M, Hersh W, Integration and beyond: linking information from disparate sources and into workflow, Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 2000, 7: 135-145.

53. Hersh W, Turpin A, Price S, Kraemer D, Chan B, Sacherek L, Olson D, Do batch and user evaluations give the same results?, Proceedings of the 23rd Annual ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2000, 17-24.

54. Hersh WR, Crabtree MK, Hickam DH, Sacherek L, Rose L, Friedman CP, Factors associated with successful answering of clinical questions using an information retrieval system, Bulletin of the Medical Library Association, 2000, 88: 323-331.

55. Hersh WR, Price S, Donohoe L, Assessing thesaurus-based query expansion using the UMLS Metathesaurus, Proceedings of the 2000 Annual AMIA Fall Symposium, 2000, 344-348.

56. Selsky D, Eisenberg F, Spena R, Hersh W, Price S, Buitendijk I, Knowledge integration: insight through the e-Portal, Journal of Healthcare Information Management, 2001, 15: 13-24.

57. Hersh W, Turpin A, Price S, Kraemer D, Sacherek L, Olson D, Chan B, Challenging conventional assumptions of information retrieval with real users: Boolean searching and batch retrieval evaluations, Information Processing & Management, 2001, 37: 383-402.

58. Turpin A, Hersh W, Why batch and user evaluations do not give the same results, Proceedings of the 24th Annual ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2001, 225-231.

59. Hersh WR, Junium K, Mailhot M, Tidmarsh P, Implementation and evaluation of a medical informatics distance learning program, Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association , 2001, 8: 570-584.

60. Hersh WR, Helfand M, Wallace JA, Kraemer DF, Patterson PK, Shapiro SE, Greenlick MR, Clinical outcomes resulting from telemedicine interventions:  a systematic review, BMC Medical Informatics & Decision Making, 2001, 1:5.

61. Hersh WR, Mailhot MF, Lowe HJ, Smith CA, Selective automated indexing of findings and diagnoses in radiology reports, Journal of Biomedical Informatics, 2001, 34: 262-273.

62. Hersh WR, Medical informatics education: an alternative pathway for training the informationist, Journal of the Medical Library Association, 2002, 90: 76-79.

63. Hersh WR, Crabtree MK, Hickam DH, Sacherek L, Friedman CP, Tidmarsh P, Moesbaek C, Kraemer D, Factors associated with success for searching MEDLINE and applying evidence to answer clinical questions, Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 2002, 9: 283-293. 

64. Overhage JM, Middleton B, Miller R, Zielstorff, RD, Hersh WR, Does national regulatory mandate of provider order entry, to take effect by the end of 2005, portend greater benefit than risk for health care delivery? The 2001 ACMI debate, Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 2002, 9: 199-208.

65. Hersh WR, Helfand M, Wallace JA, Kraemer DF, Patterson PK, Shapiro SE, Greenlick MR, A systematic review of the efficacy of telemedicine for making diagnostic and management decisions, Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare, 2002, 8: 197-209.

66. Hersh WR, Gorman PN, Ruback T, Implementation and evaluation of a medical informatics curriculum for physician assistant students, Perspective on Physician Assistant Education, 2002, 13: 7-10.

67. Hersh WR, Medical Informatics: improving health care through information, Journal of the American Medical Association, 2002, 288: 1955-1958.

68. Hersh W, Miller R, Olson, D, Sacherek L, Cross P, Professional’s Information Link (PiL): a web-based asynchronous consultation service, Proceedings of the 2002 Annual AMIA Symposium, 2002, 325-329.

69. Tidmarsh P, Cummings J, Hersh WR, Friedman CP, Distributed medical informatics education using Internet2, Proceedings of the 2002 Annual AMIA Symposium, 2002, 787-791.

70. Price SL, Hersh WR, Olson DD, Embi PJ, SmartQuery: context-sensitive links to medical knowledge sources from the electronic patient record, Proceedings of the 2002 Annual AMIA Symposium, 2002, 627-631.

71. Dubay CJ, Brundege JM, Hersh W, Spackman K, Delivering bioinformatics training: bridging the gaps between computer science and biomedicine, Proceedings of the 2002 Annual AMIA Symposium, 2002, 220-224.

72. Huang Y, Lowe HJ, Hersh WR, A pilot study of contextual UMLS indexing to improve the precision of concept-based representation in XML-structured clinical radiology reports, Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 2003, 10: 580-587.

73. Turpin A, Hersh W, Do clarity scores for queries correlate with user performance?, Proceedings of the Fifteenth Australasian Database Conference, Dunedin, New Zealand, 2004, 85-91.

74. Ash JS, Gorman PN, Seshadri V, Hersh WR, Computerized physician order entry in U.S. hospitals: results of a 2002 survey, Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 2004, 11:  95-99.

75. Cohen AM, Stavri PZ, Hersh WR, A categorization and analysis of the criticisms of Evidence-Based Medicine, International Journal of Medical Informatics, 2004, 73: 35-43.

77. Tran D, Dubay C, Gorman P, Hersh W, Applying task analysis to describe and facilitate bioinformatics tasks, MEDINFO 2004, 818-822.

78. Tian X,  Hersh W, Logan J, Bennett R, A database for Chinese outpatients with rheumatic diseases, MEDINFO 2004, 256-259.

79. Cohen AM, Hersh WR, A survey of current work in biomedical text mining, Briefings in Bioinformatics, 2005, 6: 57-71.

80. Cohen AM, Hersh WR, Dubay C, Spackman KA, Using co-occurrence network structure to extract synonymous gene and protein names from MEDLINE abstracts. BMC Bioinformatics, 2005, 6: 103.

81. Müller H, Clough P, Hersh W, Geissbuhler A, IMAGECLEF 2004–2005:  results, experiences and new ideas for image retrieval evaluation, CBMI 2005 - Fourth International Workshop on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing, 2005.

82. Hersh W, Evaluation of biomedical text mining systems: lessons learned from information retrieval, Briefings in Bioinformatics, 2005, 6:  344-356.

83. Müller H, Clough P, Hersh W, Deselaers T, Lehmann T, Geissbuhler A, Evaluation axes for medical image retrieval systems the ImageCLEF experience, ACM Multimedia 2005, 2005.

84. Bernstam EV, Herskovic JR, Aphinyanaphongs Y, Aliferis CF, Sriram MG, Hersh WR, Using citation data to improve retrieval from MEDLINE, Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 2006, 13: 96-105. 
85. Hersh W, Who are the informaticians? What we know and should know, Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 2006, 13: 166-170.

86. Cohen AM, Hersh WR, Peterson K, Yen PY, Reducing workload in systematic review preparation using automated citation classification, Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 2006, 13: 206-219.

87. Müller H, Clough P, Hersh W, Deselaers T, Lehmann T, Geissbuhler A, Using heterogeneous annotation and visual information for the benchmarking of image retrieval systems, SPIE Conference Photonics West, 2006.

Other Papers

2. Evans DA, Lefferts RG, Grefenstette G, Handerson SK, Hersh WR, Archbold AA, CLARIT TREC Design, Experiments, and Results, Proceedings of the First Text Retrieval Conference (TREC-1), 1993, 251-286.

3. Hersh WR, Lunin LA, Perspectives on medical informatics: information technology in health care, Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1995, 46: 726-728.

4. Hersh WR, Day B, A comparison of Boolean and natural language searching for the TREC-6 interactive task, Proceedings of the Sixth Text Retrieval Conference (TREC-6), Gaithersburg, MD, 1998, 585-595.

5. Hersh W, Price S, Kraemer D, Chan B, Sacherek L, Olson D, A large-scale comparison of Boolean and natural language searching for the TREC-7 interactive track, Proceedings of the Seventh Text Retrieval Conference (TREC-7), Gaithersburg, MD, 1999, 491-500.

6. Hersh WR, OHSU’s 2-for-1 proposition: the fusion of medical informatics and outcomes research, M.D. Computing, 1999, 16(5): 35-37. 

7. Hersh W, Over P, TREC-8 interactive track overview, Proceedings of the Eighth Text Retrieval Conference (TREC-8), Gaithersburg, MD, 2000, 57-64.

8. Hersh WR, The quality of information on the World Wide Web, Journal of the American College of Dentists, 1999, 66: 43-45.

9. Hersh W, Turpin A, Sacherek L, Olson D, Price S, Further analysis of whether batch and user evaluations give the same results with a question-answering task, Proceedings of the Ninth Text Retrieval Conference (TREC-9), Gaithersburg, MD, 2001, 407-416.

10. Hersh W, Over P, SIGIR workshop on interactive retrieval at TREC and beyond, SIGIR Forum, Spring 2000.

11. Hersh W, Over P, TREC 2001 interactive track structure, Proceedings of the Text Retrieval Conference (TREC) 2001, Gaithersburg, MD, 38-41.

12. Hersh W, Sacherek L, Olson D, Observations of searchers:  OHSU TREC 2001 interactive track, Proceedings of the Text Retrieval Conference (TREC) 2001, Gaithersburg, MD, 434-441.

13. Hersh W, Medical Informatics: a career for librarians, Info Career Trends, 2002.

14. Hersh W, Over P, TREC 2002 interactive track report, Proceedings of the Text Retrieval Conference (TREC) 2002, Gaithersburg, MD, 40-45.

15. Hersh W, Sacherek L, Olson D, More statistical power needed:  The OHSU TREC 2002 interactive track experiments, Proceedings of the Text Retrieval Conference (TREC) 2002, Gaithersburg, MD, 505-511.

16. Hersh WR, Bhupatiraju RT, TREC genomics track overview, The Twelfth Text Retrieval Conference - TREC 2003, 14-23.

17. Hersh WR, Bhupatiraju RT, Price SL, Phrases, boosting, and external knowledge resources for genomic information retrieval, The Twelfth Text Retrieval Conference - TREC 2003, 503-509.

18. Hersh W, Anytime, anywhere medical records: the National Health Information Infrastructure (NHII), Oregon’s Future, 2004, 5(1):  36-38. 

19. Hersh W, It takes a village to achieve the benefits of electronic health records, Oregon’s Future, 2004, 5(2):  40-41. 

20. Hersh W, Bhupatiraju RT, Ross L, Johnson P, Cohen AM, Kraemer DF, TREC 2004 genomics track overview, The Thirteenth Text Retrieval Conference - TREC 2004, 13-24.

21. Cohen AM, Bhupatiraju RT, Hersh W, Feature generation, feature selection, classifiers, and conceptual drift for biomedical document triage, The Thirteenth Text Retrieval Conference - TREC 2004. 

22. Hersh W, Distance learning in biomedical informatics. ACM eLearn Magazine, 2004. 

23. Hersh W, The full spectrum of biomedical informatics education at OHSU, Proceedings of the European Federation of Medical Informatics Special Topic Conference 2005, 49-51.

24. Hersh WR, Jensen J, Müller H, Ruch P, Gorman P, A qualitative task analysis of biomedical image use and retrieval, Proceedings of the Workshop on Image and Video Retrieval Evaluation, 2005, 11-16.

25. Jensen JR, Hersh WR, Manual query modification and data fusion for medical image retrieval, in Peters C, Gey FC, Gonzalo J, Müller H, Jones GJF, Kluck M, Magnini B, de Rijke M, Accessing Multilingual Information Repositories: 6th Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2005, Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4022, 673-679.

26. Clough P, Müller H, Deselaers T, Grubinger M, Lehmann, Jensen J, Hersh W, The CLEF 2005 Cross-Language Image Retrieval Track, in Peters C, Gey FC, Gonzalo J, Müller H, Jones GJF, Kluck M, Magnini B, de Rijke M, Accessing Multilingual Information Repositories: 6th Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2005, Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol.  4022, 535-557.

27. Hersh W, Cohen AM, Yang J, Bhupatiraju RT, Roberts P, M. Hearst M, TREC 2005 genomics track overview, The Fourteenth Text Retrieval Conference - TREC 2005.

28. Cohen AM, Yang J, Hersh WR, A comparison of techniques for classification and ad hoc retrieval of biomedical documents, The Fourteenth Text Retrieval Conference - TREC 2005.

29. Hersh W, What is the right medical informatics training for me? - a case study from Oregon Health & Science University, in e-Health & Medical IT Solutions, 2006.

30. Hersh W, Kim E, The impact of relevance judgments and data fusion on results of image retrieval test collections, Proceedings of the Second MUSCLE/ImageCLEF Workshop on Image and Video Retrieval Evaluation, 2006, 29-38.

31. Hersh W, Kalpathy-Cramer J, Jensen J, Medical image retrieval and automated annotation: OHSU at ImageCLEF 2006, in Peters C, Clough P, Gey F, Karlgren J, Magnini B, Oard DW, de Rijke M, Stempfhuber M, Evaluation of Multilingual and Multi-modal Information Retrieval - 7th Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2006, Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4730, 660-669. 

32. Müller H, Deselaers T, Lehmann, Clough P, Kim E, Hersh W, Overview of the ImageCLEFmed 2006 medical retrieval and annotation tasks, in Peters C, Clough P, Gey F, Karlgren J, Magnini B, Oard DW, de Rijke M, Stempfhuber M, Evaluation of Multilingual and Multi-modal Information Retrieval - 7th Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2006, Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4730, 595-608. 

33. Hersh W, Cohen AM, Roberts P, Rekapalli HP, TREC 2006 Genomics Track overview, The Fifteenth Text Retrieval Conference - TREC 2006. 

34. Cohen AM, Yang J, Fisher S, Roark B, Hersh WR, Combining lexicon expansion, information retrieval, and cluster-based ranking for biomedical question answering, The Fifteenth Text Retrieval Conference - TREC 2006, 52-78. 

35. Hersh W, Müller H, Image retrieval in medicine: the ImageCLEF medical image retrieval evaluation, ASIST Bulletin, February/March 2007.

36. Hersh W. Copy and paste. AHRQ WebM&M, July/August 2007. 

37. Hersh WR, Müller H, Kalpathy-Cramer J, Kim E, Consolidating the ImageCLEF medical task test collection: 2005-2007, Proceedings of the Third MUSCLE/ImageCLEF Workshop on Image and Video Retrieval Evaluation, 2006, 31-39. 

38. Müller H, Deselaers T, Kim E, Kalpathy-Cramer J, Deserno TM, Hersh W, Overview of the ImageCLEF 2007 medical retrieval and annotation tasks, in Peters C, Jijkoun V.  Mandl T, Müller H, Oard DW, Peňas A, Petras V, Santos D, Advances in Multilingual and Multimodal Information Retrieval, 8th  Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2007, Budapest, Hungary, Springer Lecture Notes for Computer Science, Vol. 5152, 2008, 472-491.

39. Kalpathy-Cramer J, Hersh W, Medical image retrieval and automatic annotation: OHSU at ImageCLEF 2007, in Peters C, Jijkoun V. Mandl T, Müller H, Oard DW, Peňas A, Petras V, Santos D, Advances in Multilingual and Multimodal Information Retrieval, 8th  Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2007, Budapest, Hungary, Springer Lecture Notes for Computer Science, Vol. 5152, 2008, 623-630. 

40. Hersh W, Cohen AM, Ruslen L, Roberts P, TREC 2007 Genomics Track overview, The Sixteenth Text Retrieval Conference - TREC 2007, 37-50.

41. Cohen AM, Yang J, Fisher S, Roark B, Hersh WR, The OHSU biomedical question answering system framework, The Sixteenth Text Retrieval Conference - TREC 2007.

42. Hersh W, A View from the States: Biomedical Informatics Education at Oregon Health & Science University, UK Health Informatics Today, No. 56, Spring, 2008, 3-5, http://www.bmis.org/ebmit/2008_56_spring.pdf.

43. Hersh WR, Wright A, Characterizing the Health Information Technology Workforce: Analysis from the HIMSS Analytics™ Database, 2008, http://www.billhersh.info/hit-workforce-hersh.pdf. 

44. Hersh WR, Margolis A, Quirós F, Otero P, Determining Health Informatics Workforce Needs in Developing Economies, Making the eHealth Connection: Global Partnerships, Local Solutions, 2008, Bellagio, Italy. 

45. Müller H, Kalpathy-Cramer J, Kahn C, Hatt W, Bedrick S, and Hersh W, Overview of the ImageCLEFmed 2008 medical image retrieval task, in Peters C, Giampiccol D, Ferro N, Petras V, Gonzalo J, Penas A, Deselaers T, Mandl T, Jones G, Kurimo, M, Evaluating Systems for Multilingual and Multimodal Information Access, 9th Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2008, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 5706, 512-522.

46. Kalpathy-Cramer J, Bedrick S, Hatt W, and Hersh W, Multimodal medical image retrieval OHSU at ImageCLEF 2008, in Peters C, Giampiccol D, Ferro N, Petras V, Gonzalo J, Penas A, Deselaers T, Mandl T, Jones G, Kurimo, M, Evaluating Systems for Multilingual and Multimodal Information Access, 9th Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2008, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 5706, 744-751.

47. Müller H, Kalpathy-Cramer J, Eggel I, Bedrick S, Radhouani S, Bakke B, Kahn CE, Hersh W, Overview of the CLEF 2009 Medical Image Retrieval Track, Working Notes for the CLEF 2009 Workshop.

48. Radhouani S, Kalpathy-Cramer J, Bedrick S, Bakke B, Hersh W, Multimodal medical image retrieval: improving precision at ImageCLEF 2009, Working Notes for the CLEF 2009 Workshop. 

49. Müller H, Kalpathy-Cramer J, Eggel I, Bedrick S, Reisetter J, Kahn CE, Overview of the CLEF 2010 Medical Image Retrieval Track, Notebook Papers for the CLEF 2010 Labs and Workshops, Padua, Italy.

50. Bedrick S, Ambert K, Cohen A, Hersh W, Identifying patients for clinical studies from electronic health records: TREC Medical Records Track at OHSU, The Twentieth Text Retrieval Conference - TREC 2011.

51. Voorhees E, Hersh W, Overview of the TREC 2012 Medical Records Track, The 21st Text Retrieval Conference - TREC 2012.

52. Bedrick S, Edinger T, Cohen A, Hersh W, Identifying patients for clinical studies from electronic health records: TREC 2012 Medical Records Track at OHSU, The 21st Text Retrieval Conference - TREC 2012. 

53. Kodish-Wachs J, Hersh W, Clinical informatics in rehabilitation practice, PM&R Knowledge Now, 2013.

54. Hersh WR, Valerius JD, A tale of two professions: health information management and biomedical/health informatics converge at OHSU, Journal of AHIMA, 2013, 84(10): 38-41. 

55. Simpson MS, Voorhees E, Hersh W, Overview of the TREC 2014 Clinical Decision Support Track, The 23rd Text Retrieval Conference - TREC 2014.

56. Roberts K, Simpson MS, Voorhees E, Hersh WR, Overview of the TREC 2015 Clinical Decision Support Track, The 24th Text Retrieval Conference - TREC 2015.

57. Roberts K, Demner-Fushman D, Voorhees E, Hersh WR, Overview of the TREC 2016 Clinical Decision Support Track, The 25th Text Retrieval Conference - TREC 2016.

58. Pederson B, Vasilevsky N, Hersh W, McWeeney S, Haendel M, Wirz J. Big Data to Knowledge open educational resources: development and dissemination considerations, Proceedings of EdMedia: World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2016, 1729-1733.

59. Roberts K, Demner-Fushman D, Voorhees EM, Hersh WR, Bedrick S, Lazar AJ, Pant S, Overview of the TREC 2017 Precision Medicine Track, The 26th Text Retrieval Conference - TREC 2017.

Books

2. Lindell CK, Hersh WR, Internet Medical & Health Searching & Sources Guidebook, Osceola, WI:  KC Press. - 1st Edition, 1998
- 2nd Edition, 1999
- 3rd (Millenium) Edition, 2000
- 4th Edition, 2001
- 5th Edition, 2002

3. Chen H, Fuller S, Friedman C, Hersh W (eds.), Medical Informatics: Knowledge Management and Data Mining in Biomedicine, New York:  Springer-Verlag, 2005.

4. Hoyt, RE and Hersh, WR, Eds. (2018). Health Informatics: Practical Guide, Seventh Edition. Pensacola, FL, Lulu.com.

Book Chapters/Sections

Reports

Editorials and Commentaries

2. Hersh W, Rindfleisch T, Electronic publishing of scholarly communication in the biomedical sciences, Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 2000, 7: 324-325.

3. Hersh W, Over P, Interactivity at the Text Retrieval Conference (TREC), Information Processing and Management, 2001, 37: 365-367.

4. Hersh WR, Patterson PK, Kraemer DF, Telehealth: the need for evaluation redux, Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association , 2001, 9: 89-90.

5. Hersh WR, Gorman PN, Teach globally, learn locally: the 2003 IMIA Working Group on Education Meeting, International Journal of Medical Informatics, 2004, 73: 95-96.

6. Cohen AM, Hersh WR, Criticisms of evidence-based medicine, Evidence-Based Cardiovascular Medicine, 2004, 8: 197-198.

7. Hersh W, Health care information technology: progress and barriers, Journal of the American Medical Association, 2004, 292: 2273-2274.

8. Hersh W, Ubiquitous but unfinished: on-line information retrieval systems, Medical Decision Making, 2005, 25: 147-148.

Abstracts/Posters

2. Hersh, WR, Hickam DH, Impact of a computerized information system in a university general medicine clinic, Clinical Research, 1992, 40: 567A.

3. Zacks M, Hersh W, Indexing the Cochrane systematic reviews, Colloquium Handbook, Fourth International Cochrane Colloquium, Adelaide, Australia, 1996, A-19.

4. Brodner R, Hersh W, Helfand M, Brown B, ORCAS: network-based management of cancer clinical trials, Proceedings of the 1997 AMIA Annual Symposium, 1997, 915.

5. Lowe HJ, Hersh W, Smith CA, The multimedia medical record as a virtual library: a multidimensional model for indexing the content of medical images using the Unified Medical Language System, Final Program and Abstract Book, 1998 AMIA Annual Spring Congress, 1998, 83.

6. Hersh WR, Price S, Identifying randomized controlled trials in conference proceedings abstracts. Abstract Book, Sixth International Cochrane Colloquium, 1998, 52.

7. Hersh WR, Malveau SE, DynamiQuest: a system for asking clinical examination questions based on content viewed, Proceedings of the 1998 AMIA Annual Symposium, 1998, 1013.

8. Huey CG, Hersh WR, A needs assessment of a web-based smoking cessation program, Proceedings of the 1998 AMIA Annual Symposium, 1998, 1020.

9. Rose LL, Crabtree K, Hersh WR, Factors influencing successful use of information retrieval systems by nurse practitioner students, Proceedings of the 1998 AMIA Annual Symposium, 1998, 1067.

10. Hersh W, Zhang L, Teaching English medical terminology using the UMLS Metathesaurus and World Wide Web, Proceedings of the 1999 AMIA Annual Symposium, 1999, 1078.

11.  Patterson PK, Salveson C, Hersh W, Duell PB, Carlson J, Videophones for wellness coaching in an overweight population, Proceedings of the 1999 AMIA Annual Symposium, 1999, 1136.

12. Hersh WR, Web-based distance learning in medical informatics, Conference Notebook:  Blending People & Technology to Improve Practice - Conference on Public Health Informatics & Distance Learning, New Orleans, LA, 2000.

13. Lyman JA, Hersh W, Spackman K, Representing clinical information in an internal medicine teaching image database, Proceedings of the 2000 Annual AMIA Symposium, 2000, 1074.

14. Hersh W, Distance learning techniques for medical informatics, Proceedings of the 2000 Annual AMIA Symposium, 2000, 1170. PMC2243969.

15. Hersh WR, Helfand M, Shapiro SE, Wallace JA, Eilers GM, Coverage and quality of diagnostic and outcomes studies of telemedicine services, Abstract Book, Eighth International Cochrane Colloquium, 2000, 49.

16. Gong Y, Hersh W, A preliminary trial of tagging on-line documents using “Medical Core Metadata”, Proceedings of the 2001 AMIA Annual Symposium, 914.

17.  Cummings J, Tidmarsh P, Hersh W, Friedman C, Distributed medical informatics education using Internet2, Proceedings of the 2001 AMIA Annual Symposium, 887.

18. Price S, Logan J, Hersh W, The role of computer science and computing skills in a medical informatics curriculum, Proceedings of the 2001 AMIA Annual Symposium, 1003.

19. Hiruki T, Olson D, Onogi Y, Hersh W, An automated MeSH mapping tool to facilitate searching of the English-language Web by Japanese users, Technology and Health Care, 2001, 9:  495-496.

20. Turpin A, Hersh W, User interface effects in past batch versus user experiments, Proceedings of the 25th Annual ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2002, 431-432.

21. Hersh WR, Text Retrieval Conference (TREC) Genomics Pre-Track, Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing, 2003, 83.

22. Hersh W, Tidmarsh P, Ilg A, Distance learning in medical informatics:  who, what, and why?, Proceedings of the 2003 International Medical Informatics Association Working Group on Education Conference, 2003, CD-ROM.

23. Yackel TR, Gorman P, Ilg A, Ash J, Audiss D, Hersh W, Teaching applied informatics:  the benefits of an internship model, Proceedings of the 2003 International Medical Informatics Association Working Group on Education Conference, 2003, CD-ROM.

24. Rose E, Zeiger R, Corley S, Gorman P, Yackel T, Hersh W, Development methodology for a “next generation” medical informatics curriculum for clinicians, Proceedings of the 2003 AMIA Annual Symposium, 986.

25. Hersh WR, Bhupatiraju RT, Greene PS, Smothers V, Cohen C, A standards-based approach for facilitating discovery of learning objects at the point of care, Proceedings of the AMIA 2005 Annual Symposium, CD-ROM.

26. Yang J, Cohen AM, Hersh WR, Functional gene group summarization by clustering MEDLINE abstract sentences, Proceedings of the AMIA 2006 Annual Symposium, CD-ROM.

27. Hersh WR, Bhupatiraju RT, Greene PS, Smothers V, Cohen C, Frodis M, Mapping and accessing competencies and learning objects, Slice of Life 2007, http://slice.utah.edu/2007/schedule/documents/53WilliamHersh1.pdf.

28. Feldman S, Hersh W, Evaluating the AMIA-OHSU 10x10 program to train health care professionals, Proceedings of the AMIA 2007 Annual Symposium, 2007, CD-ROM.

29. Hersh W, Kalpathy-Cramer J, Müller H, The ImageCLEFmed medical image retrieval task test collection, Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM) 2008 Scientific Abstract Book, 2008, 13-15.

30.  Kalpathy-Cramer J, Hersh W, Bedrick S, Müller H, Query analysis to improve medical image retrieval, Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM) 2008 Scientific Abstract Book, 2008, 127-128.

31. Hersh WR, Wright A, Characterizing the health information technology workforce: Analysis from the HIMSS Analytics™ Database, AMIA Spring Congress 2008, CD-ROM.

32. Valerius J, Hersh W, How well does a biomedical informatics curriculum map to health information management knowledge clusters? Analysis of a program, Proceedings of the AMIA 2008 Annual Symposium, 2008, 967.

33. Kahn CE, Kalpathy-Cramer J, Hersh WR, Image retrieval in medicine: the ImageCLEF challenge, RSNA 94th Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting, 2008.

34. McClay J, Nielson J, Wadman M, Hersh W, The Emergency Informatics Transition Course: a flexible, on-line course in health informatics for emergency medicine clinicians and trainees, Innovations in Emergency Medicine Education 2009 Annual Meeting, 2009.

35. Kalpathy-Cramer J, Bedrick S, Radhouani S, Hersh W, Eggel I, Müller H, Web-based medical image retrieval systems: a demonstration of the utility of text, images, and user input in retrieving relevant images, MEDINFO 2010.

36. Mohan V, Hersh WR, Development and evaluation of an electronic health record configuration and customization laboratory course for clinical informatics students, MEDINFO 2013.

37. Williamson J, Safran C, Shortliffe EH, Starren J, Hersh W, The new clinical informatics medical subspecialty in the United States, Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, 2013, 192: 1232.

38. Hersh W, Williamson J, Otero P, Margolis A, The AMIA 10×10 ("Ten by Ten") program: an international approach to building informatics capacity, Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, 2013, 192: 1233.

39. Margolis A, Joglar F, de Quirós FG, Baum A, Fernández A, García S, Arredondo AL, Hersh WR, 10x10 comes full circle: Spanish version back to United States in Puerto Rico, Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, 2013, 192: 1134.

40. Mejicano G, Boudrot T, Brunett P, Bumsted T, Carney P, Deiorio N, Hersh W, Ito T, Kahl L, Preparing future physicians: a bold proposal for Oregon and beyond, Harvard Macy Institute 20th Anniversary Symposium, 2014.

41.  Haendel M, Dorr DA, Hersh W, Vasilevsky N, McWeeney S, Improving knowledge discovery through development of a big data to knowledge skills course, OHSU Research Week, Portland, OR, 2015.

42. Hersh W, McWeeney S, Haendel M, Vasilevsky N. Open educational resources for big data science. improving knowledge discovery through development of a big data to knowledge skills course. OHSU Research Week, Portland, OR, 2015.

43. Hersh W, Haendel M, McWeeney S, Vasilevsky N, Pederson B, Wirz J, Open educational resources for big data science: goals and challenges, NIH Big Data to Knowledge (BD2K) All-Hands Meeting, Bethesda, MD, 2015.

44. Dorr D, Haendel M, Vasilevsky N, Pederson B, Wirz J, Hersh W, McWeeny S. Improving knowledge discovery through development of big data to knowledge skills course, NIH Big Data to Knowledge (BD2K) All-Hands Meeting, Bethesda, MD, 2015.

45. Vasilevsky N, Wirz J, Pederson B, Laderas T, McWeeney S, Hersh W, Dorr D, Haendel M. Data science education resources for everyone, Medical Library Association Pacific Northwest Chapter Meeting, Portland, OR, 2016.

46. Timmons T, Hersh W, Wu S, Creating topics for cohort identification in patient-level information retrieval, 4th Pacific Northwest Regional NLP Workshop: NW-NLP 2016, 2016.

47. Vasilevsky N, McWeeney S, Hersh S, Dorr DA, Laderas T, Wirz J, Pederson B, Haendel M. Improving knowledge discovery through development of big data to knowledge skills courses and open educational resources, OHSU BICC 25th Year Anniversary, Portland, OR, 2016.

48. Laderas T, Vasilevsky N, Haendel M, McWeeney S, Dorr D, Get real: a synthetic dataset illustrating clinical and genetic covariates, NIH Big Data to Knowledge (BD2K) All-Hands Meeting, Bethesda, MD, 2016.

49. Vasilevsky N, Pederson B, Wirz J, McWeeney S, Haendel M, Hersh W. Data science educational resources for anyone, anywhere, NIH Big Data to Knowledge (BD2K) All-Hands Meeting, Bethesda, MD, 2016.

50. Laderas T, Haendel M, Vasilevsky N, Pederson B, Wirz J, Hersh W, Dorr DA, McWeeney S. Getting your hands dirty with data, NIH Big Data to Knowledge (BD2K) All-Hands Meeting, Bethesda, MD, 2016.

Letters

2. Hersh WR, Another man's poison, M.D. Computing, 1993, 10: 73-74. 

3. Hersh WR, Gorman PN, Sacherek LS, The applicability and quality of information for answering clinical questions on the World Wide Web, Journal of the American Medical Association, 1998, 280: 1307-1308.

4. Hersh W, Reply to: Electronic information retrieval by physicians and medical librarians, Journal of the American Medical Association, 1999, 281: 1272-1273.

5. Hersh W, The telemedicine curriculum, Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare, 2003, 9: 353-354.

6. Mohan V, Hersh WR, EHRs and health care quality: correlation with out-of-date, differently purposed data does not equate with causality, Archives of Internal Medicine, 2011, 171: 952-953.

Reviews

2. Hersh WR, Review of:  Berg M, Rationalizing Medical Work: Decision-Support Techniques and Medical Practices, Cambridge, MA:  MIT Press, 1997, Information Processing and Management, 1998, 34: 133-134.

3. Hersh WR, Review of:  Witten IH, Moffat A, Bell TC, Managing Gigabytes - Compressing and Indexing Documents and Images, San Francisco:  Morgan Kaufmann, 1999, Information Retrieval, 2001, 4: 79-83.

4. Hersh W, The way of the future?, Review of: Biomed Central, Nature, 2001, 413: 680.

5. Hersh W, Review of: Goodman K, Ethics, Medicine, and Information Technology, Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, Journal of Biomedical Informatics, 2017, 66: 159-160.

Past Activities

From 2015:

• Slides from presentation at AMIA 2015 Annual Symposium, Keeping the Curriculum Up To Date: Data Science/Analytics in the OHSU Biomedical and Health Informatics Program, San Francisco, CA, November 16, 2015
  
• Slides and references from my seminar at the Columbia University Department of Biomedical Informatics, IR Meets EHR: A Patient Cohort Discovery Task, New York, NY, October 26, 2015
  
• Slides and references from my presentation at the American Society for Clinical Oncology Program Directors' Retreat, Teaching Quality Use of the Electronic Health Record, Alexandria, VA, October 23, 2015
  
• Video and slides and references from my Clinical Informatics Grand Rounds, The Grand Experiment of HITECH: Results and Future Directions, OHSU, Portland, OR, September 24, 2015
  
• Slides and references from my presentation to OHSU Summer Informatics Interns, Big Data Science and Analytics in Health and Biomedicine, Portland, OR, August 6, 2015
  
• Slides and bibliography from my lecture in the OHSU course, CS 506/606 Information Retrieval, Portland, OR, May 26, 2015
  
• Slides and references from my talk, Clinical Informatics Subspecialty for Physicians in US: Rationale, Current Status, and Future Directions, Saudi Association for Health Informatics, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, May 18, 2015
  
• Slides and references from my talk, Healthcare Data Analytics, 73rd Oregon Health Information Management Association Annual Convention, Portland, OR, May 14, 2015
  
• Slides and references from my talk, Competencies in Clinical Informatics for Informaticians and Healthcare Professionals, Applied Clinical Informatics Conference, University of Arizona College of Medicine Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ, March 13, 2015
• Slides and references and video from my talk, Big Data in Healthcare and Biomedicine: Opportunities and Challenges, New Relic Future Talks, Portland, OR, March 9, 2015
• Slides and references from my talk, Caveats and Recommendations for Use of Operational Electronic Health Record Data for Research and Other Purposes, University of North Carolina School of Information & Library Science, Chapel Hill, NC, March 5, 2015

From 2014:

• Slides and references from my talk , What Workforce is Needed for Large-Scale Informatics Projects?, at HIMSS Middle East Integrated Health Innovations Conference, Dubai, UAE, December 17, 2014
• Overview and slides from my Informatics Year in Review talk (with Joan Ash, PhD) at the AMIA Annual Symposium 2014, Washington, DC, November 18, 2014
  
• Slides and references from my talk, Caveats and Recommendations for Use of Operational Electronic Health Record Data for Research and Other Purposes, Geisinger Health System, Danville, PA, October 20, 2014
• Video and slides from my presentation, From Concept to Implementation: One Year of the OHSU Informatics Discovery Lab, at Ignite Health 2014, Portland, OR, October 15, 2014
  
• Video and slides and references from my talk, OHSU Biomedical and Health Informatics: State of the Field, State of the Program, OHSU, Portland, OR, October 2, 2014
• Slides and references from my talk, Update in Clinical Informatics: The Newest Subspecialty, Grand Rounds, Cardiothoracic Surgery, OHSU, Portland, OR, September 29, 2014
  
• Slides and references from my talk, Informatics: Opportunities to Improve Healthcare Through Rewarding Careers, Samaritan Health Services, September 10, 2014, Corvallis, OR
  
• Slides and references from my talk, Caveats and Recommendations for Use of Operational Electronic Health Record Data for Research and Other Purposes, Clinical Informatics Grand Rounds, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, September 8, 2014
  
• Slides from my welcome talk to OHSU informatics summer interns, Portland, OR, July 3, 2014
  
• Slides from my talk, Board Certification Update, at the AMDIS Annual Physician-Computer Connection Symposium, Ojai, CA, June 20, 2014 (and link to my updated blog posting on eligibility for the clinical informatics subspecialty)
  
• Slides and references from my talk, Biomedical and Health Informatics: Improving Health, Healthcare, and Biomedical Research with Information and Technology, Seminar, Oregon Institute of Occupational Health Sciences, OHSU, Portland, OR, May 28, 2014
  
• Slides and references from my talk, Information Retrieval in the Ubiquitous Search Era: A View from the Biomedical/Health Domain, at Yahoo! Labs in Haifa, Israel on April 24, 2014
  
• Slides and references from talks given during my visit to the Medical Informatics and e-Learning Unit (MIELU), King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia:
• The AMIA 10×10 (“Ten by Ten”) Program: An International Approach to Building Informatics Capacity, March 10, 2014
  
• Efforts in the United States to Advance Adoption of e-Health, March 11, 2014
  
• Impact of HIT on Quality, Safety, and Cost and the Workforce Needed for Implementation, March 12, 2014
• Slides and references from my presentation, Informatics: What Every Clinician Needs to Know, Texas Woman's University, Dallas, TX, February 21, 2014
  
• Slides and references from my presentation, Clinical Informatics Subspecialty: What It Is and Why It's Important, at Medical Grand Rounds, Department of Medicine, University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Albuquerque, NM, February 13, 2014
  
• Video and slides from my presentation at the first OHSU Informatics Conference for 2014, OHSU Informatics: State of the Field, State of the Program, January 9, 2014. Starting in 2014, the conference will be streamed live.
• Six OHSU informatics faculty certified in the new clinical informatics subspecialty!

From 2013:

• Talks (with links to slides and references) before and during the AMIA 2013 Annual Symposium in Washington, DC;
• Keynote Talk, ImageCLEF Medical Image Retrieval Workshop, Information Retrieval Evaluation in the Ubiquitous Search Era: A View from the Biomedical/Health Domain, November 15, 2013
  
• Department of Computer Science, Georgetown University, Information Retrieval Evaluation in the Ubiquitous Search Era: A View from the Biomedical/Health Domain, November 15, 2013
• Re-Use of Operational Electronic Health Record Data for Research and Other Purposes, National Center for Health Statistics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Hyattsville, MD, November 15, 2013
  
• Informatics Research Workforce I – Training for Future Informatics Workforce Needs, November 18, 2013 (panelist)
  
• Informatics Research Workforce II – Innovative Technologies for Online Teaching, November 18, 2013 (panelist)
  
• Health IT Workforce of the Future, November 19, 2013 (panelist)
  
• Slides and references from my talk, Health IT Workforce in the Post-HITECH Era: Challenges and Opportunities, School of Biomedical Informatics, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, October 18, 2013, Houston, TX. 
• Slides and references from my panel talk at the AMA Accelerating Change in Medical Education meeting in Chicago, IL on October 3, 2013
  
• Video and slides of my talk about our department and its new Informatics Discovery Lab initiative at the Ignite Health meeting in Portland, OR on September 19, 2013.  (The talks at this event were structured such that presenters had 15 seconds per slide, with no control over advancing slides, and mine were not nearly as graphical as the phenomenal slides of the person who preceded me!)
  
• Slides and references from my overview presentation to OHSU medical students in the Year 3 Continuity Curriculum series, September 16, 2013, Portland, OR. 
• Slides from my presentations at Medinfo 2013 in Copenhagen, Denmark
• Panel on clinical informatics subspecialty in US
• Panel on 10x10
• Poster on hands-on EHR course (first author, Vishnu Mohan

• Slides and references from my introductory talk to the 2013 OHSU summer college interns program. 
• Slides and references from my talk, Caveats and Recommendations for Use of Operational Electronic Health Record Data for Research and Other Purposes, Informatics Grand Rounds, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, May 3, 2013, Lebanon, NH. 
• Slides and references from my talk, The Data-Rich, Information-Driven Future of Healthcare, IEEE Oregon Computer Society, April 23, 2013, Portland, OR.
• Slides and references from my presentation, Informatics is Not Just for Clinicians: Opportunities for a Future in Informatics, to the OHSU Information Technology Group (ITG), April 19, 2013, Portland, OR.
• Slides and references from my presentation, Update on Biomedical and Health Informatics from the US Perspective, at the Mahidol University Faculty of Tropical Medicine, March 28, 2013, Bangkok, Thailand.
• Slides and references from my presentation, Meaningful Use of Health Information Technology Requires a Competent Workforce, University of California Davis Health Informatics Symposium, Sacramento, CA, March 22, 2013. 
• Slides and references from my presentation, What Do 21st Century Medical Students Need to Know about Biomedical and Health Informatics?, March 15, 2013, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico. 
• Slides and references from my presentation, Practicing Medicine in a Data-­Rich, Information-­Driven Future at the OHSU Annual Primary Care Review, February 13, 2013, Portland, OR.

From 2012:

• Slides and references from my presentation, Opportunities for Collaboration Between Biomedical Informatics and Basic, Clinical, and Translational Sciences, Knight Cancer Research/Translational Meeting, December 14, 2012, Portland, OR. 
• Slides and references from my presentation, From Implementation to Analytics: The Future Work of Informatics, at the VII Jornadas Universitarias de Sistemas de Información en Salud at Hospital Italiano Department of Health Informatics, November 28, 2012, Buenos Aires, Argentina. You can also view my slides in Spanish. 
• Slides and references from my lecture on Biomedical Information Retrieval for the course, CSE 506/606 - Topics in Information Retrieval, in the OHSU computer science program, November 13, 2012.
• Slides and references from my presentation, Secondary Use of Electronic Health Records: The TREC Medical Records Track, University of Missouri Informatics Institute Symposium, Columbia, MO, October 22, 2012, Columbia, MO.
• Slides and references from my presentation, Finding the Future Workforce to Support Data-Driven Healthcare, at the AAMC Academic Health Center IT Leaders Forum, 2012 CHIME Fall CIO Forum, in Palm Springs, CA on October 16, 2012
  
• Slides and references from my presentation, Meaningful Use and All That: Update in Clinical Informatics, at OHSU Department of Surgery Grand Rounds on September 24, 2012
  
• We hosted the ACM SIGIR 2012 meeting in Portland!
• Slides from two talks at Certificado en Informática Médica para Puerto Rico (Certificate in Medical Informatics for Puerto Rico) in San Juan, Puerto Rico on August 18, 2012
• HITECH: Advancing the Adoption of Electronic Health Records in the United States
• Secondary Use of Clinical Data from Electronic Health Records
  
• Slides from talk on the OHSU clinical informatics program at the AHIMA Assembly on Education (AoE) in Orlando, FL on July 25, 2012
  
• Slides from talk welcoming the OHSU College Summer Interns and providing an overview of biomedical and health informatics on June 21, 2012
• Slides with references from my talk at OHSU Research Week in Portland, OR on May 10, 2012 entitled, Identifying Patients for Clinical Studies from Electronic Health Records: The TREC Medical Records Track (longer versions below)
  
• Slides with references from a panel presentation at the NACCDO/PAN 2012 Conference in Portland, OR on May 8, 2012 entitled, Reporting Statistics and Clinical Research: What the Research Shows and Some Future Directions
  
• Slides from a panel presentation at the Grace Hopper Northwest Regional Women in Computing Celebration 2012 in Portland, OR on April 14, 2012
  
• Slides with references for my talk, Operational Electronic Health Record Data for Comparative Effectiveness Research: Opportunities and Challenges, on the panel, AcademyHealth/Electronic Data Methods Forum, at the AMIA Clinical Research Informatics Summit, San Francisco, CA, March 22, 2012
  
• Slides with references and video from my Health Information Technology Center/Computer Science Distinguished Lecture at the University of Illinois/Champaign-Urbana, Secondary Use of Clinical Data from Electronic Health Records: The TREC Medical Records Track, March 12, 2012
• Slides from my presentation about the ONC Health Curriculum at the HIMSS 12 meeting, February 23, 2012. (Also some data about downloads and file numbers and sizes from the curriculum.)
  
• Slides and references from my presentation, Clinical Informatics: Update for OHSU Medical Students, to the OHSU Medical Student Medical Informatics Interest Group, February 15, 2012
  
• Slides with references and video from my presentation, Secondary Use of Clinical Data from Electronic Health Records: The TREC Medical Records Track, OHSU Biomedical Informatics Research Conference, January 11, 2012
  

• Slides and references from my presentation, Meaningful Use and All That: Update in Clinical Informatics, at OHSU Department of Medicine Grand Rounds, December 20, 2011
  
• Slides and references from my presentation, Introduction to Biomedical & Health Informatics, to a Linfield College Health Sciences class, December 1, 2011
  
• Slides and references from my presentation, What Every Bioinformatics Student Should Know About Clinical Informatics, Portland, OR, November 4, 2011
  
• Latest slides and references from my Health IT Workforce talk, last given at OCHIN Learning Forum, Portland, OR, November 2, 2011
• Presentation on AAMC Webinar, Informatics and the Workforce, September 22, 2011
  
• Visit to Peking Union Medical College and Hospital (PUMCH) in Beijing China on September 15, 2011, where I delivered talks on the HITECH program in the US and on clinical and translational research informatics. I also gave the HITECH talk to the National University of Singapore Department of Information Systems on September 12, 2011.
• Slides of the HITECH talk translated to Chinese!
  
• Recorded talk about the ONC Health IT Curriculum for the Oregon Passport to Health IT Kick-Off Meeting
  
• Talk at Hospital Italiano of Buenos Aires about the US HITECH Program on June 16, 2011. Slides with references in English and Spanish.
• Faculty Commencement Address for Graduate Programs on June 6, 2011. 
• A talk, Informatics Education and Competency: Necessary for Effective Information Technology Use in Health and Biomedicine, at Biomedical Informatics Grand Rounds at Ohio State University in Columbus, OH on April 28, 2011 (link to video).
• I was featured in an OHSU ad on healthcare reform in The Oregonian from Sunday, February 21, 2011. OHSU's eight principles for healthcare reform include "more effective deployment of information technology, including but not limited to portable electronic health care records."
• The tally for 10x10 ("ten by ten") at the end of 2010. AMIA site announces future offerings of the course. More information is available.
• Video and slides of an updated version of my talk, Informatics Now Lives in a HITECH World, given at OHSU Biomedical Informatics Conference on September 30, 2010.
• An Op-Ed column about healthcare reform in our local newspaper, The Oregonian, on October 11, 2010.
• Talks on biomedical and health informatics education and workforce given in southern Africa:
  
• Slides and references from invited talk at the IASTED African Conference on Health Informatics ~AfricaHI 2010~, September 6, 2010, Gaborone, Botswana
  
• Slides from talk on update of informatics education activities in the US at Medinfo 2010, September 13, 2010, Cape Town, South Africa
• Informatics Now Lives in a HITECH World - my latest version of my informatics overview talk given at Health Informatics Grand Rounds, University of Michigan, February 26, 2010 (video of talk).
• Talk about the OHSU collaboration with Hospital Italiano of Buenos Aires, funded by the NIH Fogarty International Center, on June 2, 2010.
• I had a fun interchange (and 20-minute audio interview) about the ONC workforce programs with Anthony Guerra, who runs the healthsystemCIO.com blog. 
• Comments at a press event on February 16, 2010 in Washington, DC devoted to a special issue of Health Affairs about eHealth in the Developing World. The issue included a paper by myself and some South American colleagues. See also a related posting on my blog.
• I published a paper in BMC Medical Informatics & Decision Making that defines the major terminology of the field of biomedical and health informatics.
• I was interviewed on ReachMD XM Radio: http://www.reachmd.com/xmsegment.aspx?sid=4565.

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