About me
Manager, healthcare research
Research lab: Almaden Research Center
James H. Kaufman is manager of the Healthcare Research project in the Department of Computer Science at the IBM Almaden Research Center. He received his B.A. in Physics from Cornell University and his PhD in Physics from U.C.S.B. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society.
The Healthcare Research Project is part of an IBM Joint Program (with Haifa and Colleagues in Software Group) focused on creating technologies for an Interoperable Healthcare Information Infrastructure.
During his career at IBM Research Dr. Kaufman has made contributions to several fields ranging from simulation science to magnetic device technology. His scientific contributions include work on pattern formation, conducting polymers, diamond like carbon, superconductivity, experimental studies of the Moon Illusion, and contributions to distributed computing, privacy protection, and grid middleware.
His current research interests include Interoperable Health Information Infrastructure, Electronic Health Records, and Spatiotemporal Epidemiological Modeling. His group is currently working with the Eclipse Open Health Framework http://www.eclipse.org/ohf/ to make some of our technology for interoperability in healthcare available as open source.
His hobbies include martial arts (http://www.kokarate.com/), water color painting, breeding tropical angelfish, and close-up photography. I enjoy playing with my kids, trying to understand nature, solving hard problems with computers, and building and repairing things.
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Last updated 10 Jun 2006