Umar Siddiqui, MD

About

Medical doctorate Health IT professional with a penchant towards entrepreneurship & a passion towards improving population health... Umar Siddiqui is a Clinical Informatics and Analytics professional and Health IT entrepreneur with 10+ years of professional healthcare experience. Recently, he served a role with transforming Scott & White Healthcare’s 13 hospitals and 100-plus clinics. Also, he is the co-founder of vPhysicians, a mobile healthcare solution. His educational background includes a BSci in Neuro-science from University of Pittsburgh and an MD from American University School of Medicine with clinical appointment and internship with The Barts London and Royal College of Surgeons in the UK. Umar has earned professional certifications in Health IT, Agile Development, Surgical Information Systems, and life-science sales and marketing, along with continuing formal coursework in health informatics, analytics, and business. He maintains an active involvement with various professional organizations and ongoing participation with advisory boards, civic organizations, entrepreneurial communities, and charitable volunteership as well as mentoring other Health IT professionals. Umar's technology interests evolved into Phalanx Linq, a healthcare data analytics application that earned him 2nd place in the 2013 Windows Azure and Dun & Bradstreet Developer Competition. This was followed by Centurion Linq, a healthcare delivery mobile platform which was a global finalist for health/tablet segment in the 2013 Intel AppInovation Contest. Umar's health interests include analytics, predictive models, evidence based medicine, clinical guidelines, and quality data-science. He is passionate towards the improvement of population health through technology by developing and implementing informatics tools to fully utilize and model electronic health data. Health information today will be health intelligence tomorrow.