Joel Montavon

Joel Monavon is an data-driven pharmacist with a background in business, data analysis, and programming within healthcare environments. Dr. Montavon has extensive experience with the development and maintenance of health care quality measures, including measure testing as well as reliability and validity testing. He has lead projects converting claims-based quality measures to digital quality measures with CQL and Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) and has worked with related open-source tools such as the CMS Measure Authoring Tool, Bonnie, and the Value Set Authority Center.

Dr. Montavon has worked on projects related to health care data standards, such as FHIR and the Observational Medical Outcomes Partnership (OMOP) Common Data Model, as well as clinical vocabularies including RxNorm, HCPCS, ICD, CPT, and SNOMED-CT. In addition to being a subject matter expert related to FHIR, he is also familiar with many open-source FHIR-related tools such as the CQF Ruler and Synthea. Dr. Montavon has developed automated data pipelines to extract, transform, and load drug (Medi-Span, First Databank, and FDA) and healthcare-related data into relational databases. He has experience with medical and pharmacy claims and led numerous data analysis projects with a focus on measuring clinical outcomes and evaluating clinical intervention programs.

Currently, Dr. Montavon leads the Data Curation working group that makes recommendations on to process to clean and standardize the source data for Nutrition for Precision Health. He developed code to transform the data before passing it to the All of Us Researcher Workbench.  He is also the Measure Lead for the ACO REACH model where he works on quality measurement and supports the annual updates to the measure, oversight of quarterly reports, and responses to technical assistance inquiries.