Barbara L. Massoudi

Expertise

Health Information Technology
Epidemiology
Health Care Quality and Access
Health Policy

Biography

Barbara L. Massoudi, MPH, PhD, is a senior research health scientist and leads the health informatics program at RTI. Dr. Massoudi has more than 20 years of experience in health, public health, and informatics and has specialized skills in epidemiology and environmental and occupational health. Her current research interests include documenting and reengineering the business processes of public health, knowledge management, electronic health records, personal health records, health information exchange, updating the National Agenda for Public Health Informatics, and public health informatics training and competencies. She previously led the Impact Analysis of the Health Information Security and Privacy Collaborative for AHRQ, and the Assessment of Variation and Solutions report for the first phase of the project. Dr. Massoudi is adjunct assistant professor of informatics at the Rollins School of Public Health of Emory University and chair of the Public Health Informatics Working Group of the American Medical Informatics Association.

Education

Graduate Certificate in Public Health Informatics, Rollins School of Public Health of Emory University; PhD, Occupational Epidemiology, University of Pittsburgh; MS, Public Health in Environmental Epidemiology, University of Pittsburgh; BS, Public Health, Southern Connecticut State University.

Selected Publications

Dimitropoulos, L.L., Alakoye, A.O., Bailey, R.F., Banger, A.K., Harris, D.H., Irvin, C., Loft, J.D., Massoudi, B.L., & Rizk, S.C. (December 2007). Privacy and security solutions for interoperable health information exchange—Impact analysis.

Massoudi, B.L., & Dimitropoulos, L.L. (2007). Personal Health Records: Putting Prevention into the Hands of the Consumer. Presented at the American Public Health Association Annual Meeting 2007, Washington, DC, November 2007.

Dimitropoulos, L.L., Alakoye, A.O., Bailey, R.F., Banger, A.K., Harris, D.H., Irvin, C., Loft, J.D., Massoudi, B.L., & Rizk, S.C. (June 2007). Privacy and security solutions for interoperable health information exchange—Assessment of Variation and Analysis of Solutions.

Massoudi, B.L. (2007). ActivHealth: A PHR system for at-risk sedentary adults. Presented at the American Medical Informatics Association Spring Congress, Orlando, FL, 2007.

Massoudi, B.L., Richards, J., & Savel, T. (2007). Integration of informatics principles into public health. Presented at the 2007 Public Health Information Network Conference, Atlanta, GA, 2007.

Massoudi, B.L., Richards, J., & Holmes, J.H. (2007). Learning institute: Integrating informatics principles in public health. Presented at the American Public Health Association Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, 2007.

Kass-Hout, T.A., Gray, S.K., Massoudi, B.L., Immanuel, G.Y., Dollacker, M., & Cothern, R. (Jan/Feb 2007). NHIN, RHIOs, and public health. Journal of Public Health Management and Practice, 13 (1):31-34.

Richards, J., Buckeridge, D., Foldy, S., LaVenture, M., Massoudi, B.L., Ross, D., & Savel, T. (2007). Peering through the looking glass: An examination of public health for informaticians. Presented at the American Medical Informatics Association 2007 Annual Symposium, Chicago, IL, 2007.

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