Masarie Consulting...in your own terms

Supporting Organizations With Their Healthcare Terminology Needs

Our company supports the clinical terminology needs of organizations through consulting and contracting services.

Our Mission

To facilitate the capture of high quality clinical data and make sure it is structured and coded to the extent that value can be derived from the data to improve quality, increase efficiency, and lower overall cost of healthcare delivery.

• To help organizations derive maximum value from clinical information stored in a computer.

• To help increase the understanding of terminology strategies and practices within an organization.

• To foster collaboration among stakeholders to create terminologies that satisfy clinical as well as administrative needs.

Fred E. "Chip" Masarie, Jr. MD ---Principal

After finishing two years of a general surgery residency, Dr. Masarie has been doing informatics work for over 20 years He initially worked in an academic environment, but has been in industry for the past 14 years. He was an active participant of the first phase of the UMLS project in the late 80’s. He has designed and created systems in the areas of diagnostic decision support (QMR), drug reference/terminology (Camdat/First DataBank), and electronic medical record (MedicaLogic/GE), as well as clinical reporting/clinical data warehousing. He has personally spent thousands of hours creating terminologies, normalizing user-entered data, and creating structured representations of clinical concepts. His area of expertise lies in creating healthcare terminologies that allow end-users to say what the need to say and yet be able to ask questions of the data at a higher level of abstraction.

Dr. Masarie is a fellow of the ACMI (American College of Medical Informatics) and has been a member of AMIA for many years.