RESEARCH

Dr. Finnell is the chief medical information officer for emergency medicine at Eskenazi Health and

chief architect for the ED clinical information system; a research scientist at the Regenstrief

Institute, Inc., and associate professor of clinical emergency medicine at the Indiana University

School of Medicine.

He has spent the last several years developing and implementing clinical systems and evaluating

their value. Working with Dr. Clement McDonald, one of the pioneers of medical informatics, he has

studied the electronic patient record (called the Indiana Network for PatIent Care) containing data

from many sources including laboratories, pharmacies and hospitals in central Indiana. The system

currently connects nearly all acute care hospitals in central Indiana and includes inpatient and

out patient encounter data, laboratory results, immunization data and other selected data.

Dr. Finnell is a fellow of the American College of Emergency Physicians and member of the

American College of Medical Informatics.

Dr. Finnell received his BS in Biology and MD from the University of Vermont . Dr. Finnell was a

resident , and chief resident in emergency medicine at the University of San Francisco-Fresno. He

later completed a master’s degree in clinical research, and medical inf ormatics fellowship at the

Indiana University School of Medicine.