Vibha Anand Children’s Health Services Research

Health Information and Translational Sciences Building

HS Suite 1020

410 West 10th St

Indianapolis, Indiana 46202

United States

Email: vanand@iupui.edu

Education:

B.E., Electrical Engineering, Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology, Allahabad, India, 1986

M.S., Computer Sciences, University of New Haven, West Haven, CT, 1994

Ph. D., Informatics, Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN, (Candidate)

Professional Experience:

2002 – Present: Director (Software Development) / Research Associate,

Children's Health Informatics, Research & Development Lab (CHIRDL),

CHSR, Dept. of Pediatrics, IU School of Medicine, Indiana University,

Indianapolis, IN

1986 – 2002: Engineering Positions – Consultant, Lead / Senior / Software Engineer

Software Design and Development in the following areas - Embedded Systems

(Motorola 68000 and Intel processors), Network Communication Protocols,

Computer Telephony Applications, Voice over IP protocols and applications,

Medical Informatics

Publications:

• Probabilistic Asthma Case Finding: A Noisy OR Reformulation, Anand V, Downs SM, AMIA

Annual Fall Symposium 2008

• Leveraging Open-Source Matching Tools and Health Information Exchange to Improve Newborn

Screening Follow-up, Grannis S, Biondich PG, Downs SM, Sheley ME, Anand V, Egg J, Public

Health Information Network Conference (PHIN) 2008

• Anand V (2007) Probabilistic Asthma Case Finding -A Pilot Study using the CHICA System,

Medinfo, IMIA, Published

• Downs SM, Biondich PG, Anand V, Zore MM, Carroll AE (2006) Using Arden syntax and

adaptive turnaround documents to evaluate clinical guidelines, AMIA Fall Symposium, AMIA,

214-8, Published

• Downs SM, Carroll AE, Anand V, Biondich PG (2005) Human and system errors, using adaptive

turnaround documents to capture data in a busy practice, AMIA Fall Symposium, AMIA, 211-215,

Published

• Biondich PG, Downs SM, Anand V, Carroll AE (2005) Automating the recognition and

prioritization of needed preventive services: early results from the CHICA system, AMIA Fall

Symposium, AMIA, 51-55, Published

• Anand V (2004) The CHICA RuleBuilder: A practical tool to author Arden Syntax, Medinfo,

IMIA, Published

• Anand V, Biondich PG, Downs SM (2004) Child Health Improvement through Computer

Automation: The CHICA System, MedInfo, IMIA, 187-191, Published

• Biondich PG, Anand V, Downs SM, McDonald CJ (2003) Turnaround Documents to

Electronically Acquire Structured Data in Clinical Settings, American Medical Informatics Fall

Symposium, 200356-60, Published

• Biondich PG, Anand V, Downs SM, McDonald CJ (2003) Using Adaptive Turnaround Documents

to Electronically Acquire Structured Data in Clinical Settings, AMIA fall symposium, AMIA, 56-

60, Published

Membership Information:

American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA)

Current Research Interests:

Medical Informatics - Medical Decision Support using probabilistic models, Data Mining and data

visualization, use of healthcare standards, Medical informatics integration at point of care, medical

informatics applications

Expertise:

• Software Design and Development

Proficient in 'C', C++, C#, JAVA, SQL programming languages Familiar with other

programming languages including Lisp, Prolog, Basic, visual languages and integrated

development environments - .NET and J2EE

Proficient in Design and development of Database systems using SQL server.

Familiarity with Healthcare standards - HL7, Arden Syntax, healthcare data modeling

Familiarity with Communication protocols - HDLC, DDCMP, NETBIOS, TCP/UDP/IP, XNS,

Windows RPC, Sockets Programming, SIP, RTP. Have developed using Windows, Unix and Linux development platforms.

• Developing medical decision support systems for use at point of care

• Modeling Complex systems to represent chronic illnesses and medical conditions