J. Marc Overhage, M.D., Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Medicine at the Indiana University School of Medicine, Senior Investigator at the Regenstrief Institute, and President and CEO of the Indiana Health Information Exchange. Although he has broad interests in the use of informational interventions to modify physician behavior, development of rule-based systems to implement guidelines or protocols has been a major focus of Dr. Overhage's research for the last 15 years. Using these tools, he has completed a number of large-scale studies of implementing guidelines in the outpatient and inpatient settings that examine the impact of process measures, costs, and patient outcomes. His other major research area has been implementation of a regional health information exchange for Indiana.

Dr. Overhage has more than 20 years of computing experience, including developing one of the earliest commercial object-oriented database systems and real-time data acquisition and control systems. Dr. Overhage received his Bachelor of Arts Degree with High Honors in Physics from Wabash College, his Ph.D. in biophysics from Indiana University, and his Medical Degree from the Indiana University School of Medicine.

Reference Library Authorship
	Clinical Decision Support for Electronic Prescribing: Recommendations and an Action Plan
	Lessons Learned And Pitfalls To Avoid: The Indiana Experience
	Linking Healthcare Information: Proposed Methods for Improving Care and Protecting Privacy