Burke Mamlin, MD

Research Scientist

Contact : bmamlin@regenstrief.org

The electronic health record (EHR) will achieve its goal when there is no EHR; rather, the health information system functions as a vital and interactive member of the team, supporting provider and patient on their journey toward better health.

Initiatives

Research Scientist, Clem McDonald Center for Biomedical Informatics, Regenstrief Institute
Director, Regenstrief Clinical Informatics Fellowship Program
Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine

Dr. Burke Mamlin is a medical informatics researcher and internist whose research interests include innovative informatics interventions in resource-constrained environments, precision health, decision support systems, and open communities of practice. He is a co-founder and chief architect of OpenMRS, an open source medical record system platform to support underserved populations that is deployed in more than 40 countries around the world.

Dr. Mamlin has been involved in the design and development of computer applications for medicine at Regenstrief Institute for over four decades with a focus on physician order entry. He helped create the Medical Gopher Order Entry system, one of the premier computerized physician order entry systems. He has extensive programming experience, is board-certified in clinical informatics and continues to practice medicine as a board-certified general internist while mentoring medical residents and serving as the Program Director for the Regenstrief Clinical Informatics Fellowship.

Dr. Mamlin is most passionate when applying his experience at Regenstrief to the design and development of informatics solutions for underprivileged patients both at home in Indiana and in developing countries.

Featured Projects

HQ Supported Development, Implementation, Use, and Evaluation of Interoperable Health Information Systems to Achieve HIV/AIDS and TB Epidemic Control through Improved Health Informatics Policy, Governance, Workforce Capacity, and Systems under PEPFAR

(CDC-PATH, PI: Puttkammer)

(2020-2025)

Role: Site Co-Investigator

Data for Accountability, Transparency and Impact Monitoring (DATIM) External Systems Support

(USAID-PATH)

(2021-2026)

Role: Site Co-Investigator

Survivorship Plan Health Record (SPHERE) Implementation Trial

(NIH-NCI, PI: Haggstrom)

(2021-2026)

Role: Co-Investigator

Highlighted Publications

May 2021

OpenMRS as an emergency EMR-How we used a global good to create an emergency EMR in a week

Publication: International Journal of Medical Informatics

doi: 10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2021.104433

Authors: Mamlin BW, Shivers JE, Glober NK, Dick JJ

May 2021

OpenMRS as a global good: Impact, opportunities, challenges, and lessons learned from fifteen years of implementation

Publication: International Journal of Medical Informatics

doi: 10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2021.104405

Authors: Verma N, Mamlin B, Flowers J, Acharya S, Labrique A, Cullen T

Jan/Feb 2020

Factors That Influence Changes to Existing Chronic Pain Management Plans

Publication: Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine

doi: 10.3122/jabfm.2020.01.190284

Authors: Diiulio J, Militello LG, Andraka-Christou BT, Cook RL, Hurley RW, Downs SM, Anders S, Mamlin BW, Danielson EC, Harle CA

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