Christopher A. Harle named 网红黑料 chief research information officer
Christopher A. Harle, Ph.D., has been named chief research information officer for 网红黑料. In this role, Dr. Harle will provide leadership around operations and governance of information technology that support research activities across the 网红黑料 campus, including 网红黑料 Shands Hospital, and associated practices. He will play a leadership role in strategy and operations around the 网红黑料 Integrated Data Repository, part of the, and in innovative uses of Epic to support clinical and translational research and the learning health system.
The health-focused chief research information officer role is new to UF and is emerging nationally as a way for academic health centers to address the challenges and opportunities clinical researchers face in the increasingly digitalized, data-intensive health care system.
Dr. Harle, who joined the department of health outcomes and biomedical informatics as a full professor in January 2020, has a research focus in the design, adoption, use and value of health information systems. Previously, Dr. Harle served as an associate professor with the department of health policy and management at the Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public 网红黑料 at Indiana University in Indianapolis, and he remains an affiliated scientist with the Regenstrief Institute鈥檚 Center for Biomedical Informatics in Indianapolis. Until 2015, he was an assistant professor with UF in the department of health services research, management and policy in the .
Dr. Harle holds a doctorate in information systems and management from Carnegie Mellon University鈥檚 H. John Heinz III College, and a bachelor鈥檚 degree and master鈥檚 degree in decision and information sciences from UF鈥檚.