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Yevgeniy Gitelman, MD
Yevgeniy Gitelman is a clinical informatics manager at the Acceleration Lab, a hospitalist at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, and an assistant professor of medicine at the Perelman School of Medicine.
Yevgeniy is passionate about creating customized tools that empower clinicians to improve care delivery. Such tools include population-based dashboards, just-in-time notifications, customized patient snapshot views, and SMS communication logics. His goal is to ensure that technology is not a limiting factor for innovation projects. Since joining the team in 2015, Yevgeniy has led the development of multiple platforms, including Agent.
Yevgeniy received his bachelor's degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 2006, graduated AOA from Washington University in St. Louis in 2011 and completed his residency in internal medicine at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in 2014.
Passion areas
Improving provider experience and patient outcomes
Favorite project outcome
Reducing time on vent in ICU and supporting CORE to enroll more patients into treatment
What will the future of health care look like?
More collaborative and more focus on population health and telemedicine (even more than now)
Favorite innovation
The smartphone
Favorite quote about innovation
“Genius is 1 percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration.” - Thomas Edison
Favorite travel destination
Vail, Colorado, and the Cayman Islands
I could teach you how to
Play ping pong or write an app
Favorite downtime activity
Listening to history podcasts or audiobooks
My Pet
Meet Shadow.
