Gunther Schadow
Associate Professor
Adjunct Assistant Professor, IU School of Medicine, Regenstrief Institute for Health Care
- Phone
- 317-423-5521
- Office
- 410 W. 10th St.
HS 2000
Indianapolis, IN 46202
Introduction
Gunther Schadow received his MD from Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany and his PhD in Medical Informatics from Free University Berlin, Germany. In 1998, he joined the Regenstrief Institute and Indiana University School of Medicine as a Visiting Associate Scientist and since 2000 as Medical Information Scientist.
Dr. Schadow has been a leader in healthcare information standards for several years. He has developed most of the clinical side of the HL7 version 3.0 information model in collaboration with other HL7 members who represent the key companies including laboratory and pathology information systems vendors in the medical information system industry. He has also developed a proposed standard for the syntax and semantic of units of measure published in JAMIA, which is now recommended by the U.S. Department for Health and Human Services. He has designed the HL7 version 3 data type specification. He has been co-leading medical device vendors and the FDA on a specification for EKG and other waveform data. He is currently under two contracts with the FDA to design two standards related to drug-knowledge: (1) e-Stability test data submission and (2) Structured Product Labeling (SPL) release 2, which will represent key knowledge in computer-actionable form that can drive decision support functionality in Computerized Physician Order Entry (CPOE) systems.
Dr. Schadow has a long-term interest in natural language processing, and has developed a program that extracts and codes specimens and findings on those specimens from pathology text reports. Dr. Schadow has extensive experience in design and implementation of secure Internet communication using SSL and IPsec, and has developed a hardware device to support video conferencing to the homes of on-call physicians.
Dr. Schadow joined the School of Informatics to develop the Medical Informatics program beginning November, 2004.
