Umberto Tachinardi, MD, MSc, Fellow ACMI,AMIA and IAHSI, is a digital health informatics professional. Trained by the founders (Candido Pinto de Melo, Lincoln de Assis Moura Jr and Sergio Shiguemi Furuie) of the prestigious Medical Informatics group of the Heart Institute of São Paulo University Medical School (InCor - Instituto do Coração da Universidade de São Paulo), he started his career developing biomedical signal processing systems on cardiology. Dr. Tachinardi pioneered the use of secure world-wide-web (internet) communications for transmission of medical records in 1994. In addition, he has devoted many years to innovate clinical practice through the development and deployment of integrated clinical information systems as CIO of the InCor and later as the CIO of the Secretary of Health, State of São Paulo. Dr. Tachinardi has thus worked extensively on matters of reengineering the administration and management of medical practices on a large scale.
Between 2019-2022, he was an Assistant Dean for Clinical Informatics at the Indiana University School of Medicine. In and a professor of statistics. Currently is the Chief Health Digital Officer at UC Health and Chair of the Department of Biostatistics, Health Informatics and Data Sciences at the College of Medicine of the University of Cincinnati. Dr. Tachinardi has presented over 175 publications, invited lectures, and tutorials.
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