Bonnie Kaplan, PhD, FACMI
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Bonnie Kaplan, PhD, FACMI, of the Yale Center for Medical Informatics, is a Yale Interdisiciplinary Bioethics Center Scholar, a Faculty Affiliate Fellow of the Yale Law School’s Information Society Project, Faculty in the Yale Medical School’s Program for Biomedical Ethics and also the Center for Biomedical Data Science, and Faculty Affiliate of the Yale Solomon Center for Health Law and Policy. An editor of two books, the author of more than 90 refereed and invited papers and book chapters, and popular tutorials and sessions at international medical informatics and information systems conferences, her research and consulting concern informatics ethical and legal issues, user perspectives and experiences with health information technology, and ethnographic sociotechnical evaluation. Among her publications in key journals, such as JAMIA, International Journal of Medical Informatics, MISQ, and Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics are some of the most read papers, editor’s choice, and foundational writings on organizational issues, qualitative/ethnographic sociotechnical approaches, and ethical issues. Among her most recent and forthcoming publications are papers on ethical, legal, and social issues in mobile health and mental health, telemedicine, health data privacy, and health information technology software, and also sociotechnical theory and health information technology failure.
She has been faculty for the American Medical Informatics Association’s People and Organizational Issues Doctoral Consortium, the National Science Foundation Consortium for the Science of Socio-technical Systems (CSST) Summer Research Institute, the National Library of Medicine Informatics Course, and the Global Bioethics Initiative International Bioethics Summer School. She also has served as faculty for the Yale Information Society Project-Shalom Comparative Legal Research Institute, Israel Summer Seminar at Yale since 2013. The only non-European invited to the workshop on "Cybersecurity Challenges in Healthcare: Ethical, Legal and Social Aspects," organized by the CANVAS Consortium, an EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation, at the Brocher Foundation in Switzerland (2017), she presented a main paper on "A Socio-Technical View of Ethical, Legal, and Social Issues in Cyberspace." In 2019 she addressed the Fall DeVos Medical Ethics Colloquy-The Power of Data and the Dilemma of Privacy, and, additionally, as an invited speaker and two sessions on ethical issues at the American Medical Informatics Association’s Annual Symposium.
Dr. Kaplan was elected twice as chair of the American Medical Informatics Association’s (AMIA) People and Organizational Issues Working Group and of the Ethical, Legal, and Social Issues Working Group; and served two terms as chair of the International Medical Informatics Association Organizational and Social Issues Working Group. She served on AMIA's Vendor Contract Issues Task Force, having previously chaired the AMIA Consumer Health Informatics Task Force. She was appointed to the Scientific Program Committee for the AMIA Annual Symposium and to the program committee for the ACM Workshop on Interactive Systems in Health Care multiple times. Dr. Kaplan was a Program Chair of the 2004 conference on Relevant Theory and Informed Practice: A 20 Year Retrospective on IS Research, sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) Working Group 8.2, The Interaction of Information Systems a as well as co-editing the three editions of H.I.T. or Miss: Lessons Learned from Health Information Technology Projects. She has taught undergraduate through post-doctoral and professional courses in business, medical, nursing, and arts and sciences programs, as well as on-line graduate and certificate courses in biomedical informatics and in bioethics.
She is a fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics and a recipient of the AMIA President’s Award.
December, 2020
Education & Training
- PhDUniversity of Chicago (1983)
- MAUniversity of Chicago (1972)
- BACornell University (1971)
Activities
- Panel - "AMIA Members’ ‘Vital Signs’: What the HIT Implementation Listserv Says About Goals for AMIA and for Medical Informatics,Aarts, J., Adams, S., Kaplan, B., DeMuro, P.R., Solomonides, TChicago, United States 2016
- Lecture - Ethical Issues in Health InformaticsNew York, United States 2016
- Poster - "What Medical Informaticians Do With and Think About an International Medical Informatics Listserv: Member Survey Preliminary Findings," C. Kuziemsky, M.B. Adams, B. Kaplan, K. Ravvaz, R. Koppel, Medinfo, São Paulo, Brazil, August 2015. Poster.São Paulo, Brazil 2015
- 2 Lectures - (1) Organizational Issues in Medical Informatics, (2) Ethical Issues in Medical InformaticsYoung Harris, United States 2015
- "From Sentences to Sense Making, From Utterances to Clinical Understanding, From Narratives to Structured Data: A Tutorial on Qualitative Data Coding, Concepts, Methods, and Tools," American Medical Informatics Association Annual Symposium, November 2014. Tutorial co-presented with M. B. Adams, R. Koppel, C. Kuziemsky, and K. Ravaaz.Washington, United States 2014
- Panel: "Data Governance Dilemmas for Research and Clinical Care," Kaplan, B., DeMuro, P.R., Pasquale, F, Talmon, J, Winkelstein, P.Washington, United States 2014
- Tutorial - "Ethnographic Sociotechnical Evaluation for Health Information Technology"United States 2013
- Panel - Ethical, Legal, and Public Policy Barriers to Unleashing the Full Power of Consumer Health Informatics for Care Delivery, Wetter, T., van Vorhees, B., Kaplan, B., DeMuro, P.R., Waldo, A.B.Washington, United States 2013
- Healthcare Technology To Improve Safety and Quality in End of Life and Palliative CareUnited States 2012
- Information Technology and the Soul of MedicineUnited States 2012
- Up Close and Personal: Ethnographic Methods for Informatics ResearchUnited States 2011
- Sociotechnical Design and In-Situ Evaluation for Health Information TechnologyUnited States 2011
- faculty mentorUnited States 2011
- Up Close and Personal: Ethnographic Methods for Public Health Informatics EvaluationUnited States 2010
- Cyberinfrastructure in Behavioral Medicine - Clarifying the LandscapeUnited States 2008
- Addressing Social and Ethical Issues in Developing Longitudinal Health RecordsUnited States 2008
- American Medical Informatics Association - Chair, People and Organizational Issues Working Group (1998-2000, 2009-2011); Chair, Ethical, Legal, and Social Issues Working Group (2009-2012); Chair, Consumer Health Informatics Task Force (1999-2000).United States (1998-2012)Lead working groups, arranged conference presentations and sessions, coordinated activities with other working groups.
- International Medical Informatics Association - Chair, Working Group on Organizational and Social IssuesUnited States (1998-2008)Chaired working group, arranged international conference activities, liaison with other working groups and organizations.
Honors & Recognition
Award | Awarding Organization | Date |
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Hastings Center Visiting Scholar | The Hastings Center | 2014 |
Fellow | American College of Medical Informatics | 2000 |
President's Award | American Medical Informatics Association | 2000 |
Professional Service
Organization | Role | Date |
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Whitney Humanities Center, Yale University | Science, Technology, and Utopian Visions Working Group | 2004 - Present |
Yale Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics, Yale University | Working Research Group on Technology and Ethics | 2001 - 2005 |
American Medical Informatics Association - People and Organizational Issues Working Group; Ethical, Legal, and Social Issues Working Group | People and Organizational Issues Working Group (1998-2000, 2009-2011); Ethical, Legal, and Social Issues Working Group (2009-2012); Consumer Health Informatics Task Force (1999-2000). | 1998 - 2012 |
International Medical Informatics Assocation Working Group on Organizational and Social Issues | Working Group 13: Organizational and Social Issues | 1998 - 2008 |