Jack Starmer, M.D. is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biomedical Informatics at Vanderbilt University. An internist and former clinical fellow in Biomedical Informatics at Vanderbilt, Dr. Starmer has considerable expertise in nursing and physician informatics for system design, computer-human interface, and integrating software tools into clinical workflow. He has served as a leader in the development of a clinical documentation and reimbursement coding system from an innovative medical software firm. Current research interests include clinical software adoption, and integrating evidence-based decision support at the point-of-care. Dr. Starmer is also a member of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's National Resource Center for Health Information Technology, overseeing technical assistance for several of AHRQ's Health Information Technology grantees.