Dr. Lawrence D. Garber, M.D. is a practicing Internist and the Medical Director for
Informatics at Reliant Medical Group. He has had decades of experience and success in
Medical Informatics. As a medical resident at UMass in 1986, he wrote an Electronic
Medical Record program for his Amiga computer. Twenty years later, he led the Healthcare
Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Davies Ambulatory Award winning
implementation of Epic’s Electronic Health Record system for the group’s 1 million visits
each year. 

Dr. Garber is Vice Chair of the Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative’s Executive
Committee, a member of the Massachusetts State Health Information Technology and Health
Information Exchange Advisory Committee, and a member of ONC Policy Committee’s Health
Information Exchange Workgroup. He has been Principal Investigator on $3.5 Million AHRQ
and HHS/ONC grants to develop innovative Health Information Exchanges. He also has long
been a proponent for patient safety, having been involved in several research studies on
Adverse Drug Events in the ambulatory setting.

Articles

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Quality measurement of medication monitoring in the "meaningful use" era (with Jennifer Tjia, Terry S. Field, Shira H. Fischer, Shawn J. Gagne, Daniel J. Peterson, and Jerry H. Gurwitz), The American journal of managed care (2011)
 

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Development and pilot testing of guidelines to monitor high-risk medications in the ambulatory setting (with Jennifer Tjia, Terry S. Field, Jennifer L. Donovan, Abir O. Kanaan, Marsha A. Raebel, Yanfang Zhao, Jackie C. Fuller, Shawn J. Gagne, Shira H. Fischer, and Jerry H. Gurwitz), The American journal of managed care (2010)
 

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Strategies for detecting adverse drug events among older persons in the ambulatory setting (with Terry S. Field, Jerry H. Gurwitz, Leslie R. Harrold, Jeffrey M. Rothschild, Kristin R. DeBellis, Andrew C. Seger, Leslie S. Fish, Michael Kelleher, and David W. Bates), Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA (2004)
 

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Risk factors for adverse drug events among older adults in the ambulatory setting. (with Terry S. Field, Jerry H. Gurwitz, Leslie R. Harrold, Jeffrey Rothschild, Kristin R. DeBellis, Andrew C. Seger, Jill C. Auger, Leslie A. Garber, Cynthia A. Cadoret, Leslie S. Fish, Michael Kelleher, and David W. Bates), Journal of the American Geriatrics Society (2004)
 

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Incidence and preventability of adverse drug events among older persons in the ambulatory setting (with Jerry H. Gurwitz, Terry S. Field, Leslie R. Harrold, Jeffrey M. Rothschild, Kristin R. DeBellis, Andrew C. Seger, Cynthia A. Cadoret, Leslie S. Fish, Michael Kelleher, and David W. Bates), JAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association (2003)
 

Posters and Presentations

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Technological Resources and Personnel Costs Required to Implement an Automated Alert System for Primary Care Physicians When Patients Transition from Hospitals to Home (with Terry S. Field, Shawn J. Gagne, Jennifer Tjia, Peggy Preusse, Jennifer L. Donovan, Abir O. Kanaan, and Jerry H. Gurwitz), Clinical and Translational Science Research Retreat (2012)