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Frank Naeymi-Rad | |
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| Alma mater | Illinois State University
Illinois Institute of Technology Lake Forest College |
| Occupation(s) | Chairman & CEO, Intelligent Medical Objects |
Frank Naeymi-Rad is Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer, and co-founder of Intelligent Medical Objects, Inc. (IMO), a healthcare software development company located in Northbrook, Illinois, holding this position since IMO's founding in 1994. He was also co-founder of Intelligent Medical Systems, Inc., which was sold to Glaxo, Inc., now GlaxoSmithKline, in 1994.
Dr. Naeymi-Rad received a Master's degree in computer science from Southern Illinois University, working in probabilistic techniques for the automatic classification of documents. He earned his Ph.D. in computer science from the Illinois Institute of Technology and an MBA from Lake Forest College[1]; his Ph.D. thesis work focused on the role of medical vocabulary to support database translation, information retrieval, intelligent medical records, and expert systems. He has previously worked as Chief Information Officer and Professor at the Chicago Medical School.[2]
He has been awarded National Library of Medicine and NASA contracts in the area of expert systems and medical record coding. He has been nominated for special recognition by the Oracle Corporation Smithsonian Award in the category of medicine. With IMO, he is working towards developing the components to support the next generation of electronic health record. He and IMO have been issued patents in the informatics field, as well as been selected as clinical interface terminology partners for companies such as ITelagen, Health Fidelity, and Epic.[3][4]
Dr. Naeymi-Rad was named co-chair of Chicago's Informatics Week declared by Mayor Rahm Emanuel in late 2012.[5] In June 2013, he visited the White House and participated in a round-table forum on health IT and international trade.[6] In an interview with HIStalk in 2013, Dr. Naeymi-Rad expanded upon the goals and philosophy of IMO.[7]
References
[edit]- ^ "Management Team". Intelligent Medical Objects. Retrieved 23 May 2012.
- ^ "Frank Naeymi-Rad". LinkedIn. Retrieved 23 May 2012.
- ^ "ITelagen to Partner with Intelligent Medical Objects (IMO®) to Provide Current Medical Terminology Service". PRWeb. Retrieved 18 July 2013.
- ^ "Health Fidelity and Intelligent Medical Objects (IMO) Sign Multi-Year Agreement to Leverage Clinical Expertise and Solutions". Health Fidelity. Retrieved 18 July 2013.
- ^ "Mayor Rahm Emanuel Declares October 30 to November 7, 2012 Informatics Week in Chicago". AMIA. Retrieved 8 July 2013.
- ^ "Recap: Health IT and Export Forum at the White House". Business Forward. Retrieved 8 July 2013.
- ^ "HIStalk Interviews Frank Naeymi-Rad, Chairman and CEO, Intelligent Medical Objects". HIStalk. Retrieved 15 July 2013.