MICHAEL ROZEN, M.D.

Michael J. Rozen, MD, Orthopaedic Surgeon is president of IMSE. He graduated from The Ohio State University College of Medicine, took his surgical training at The Strong Memorial Hospital at The University of Rochester, and completed his Orthopaedic residency at The University of Cincinnati.  Board certified and a fellow in The American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, he was president of Reconstructive Orthopaedics and engaged in private practice from 1974 through 1996. During this period he founded the Center for Spinal Deformity at The Children’s Hospital of Cincinnati, was instrumental in implementing the statewide school screening program for spinal deformity, was Director of Orthopaedics at a major metropolitan hospital and was a member of various quality assurance committees including The Quality Assurance Committee of the State of Ohio Bureau of Workers Compensation.  He was founder of Ohio Comp a worker compensation management system and co-founder of Recorth which provided Independent Disability Evaluations. ">For five years, he was chair of Tri-State Health Decision Resources; a community based healthcare reform initiative and a founding board member of The Center for Health Ethics. During that time he also held leadership positions in Cincinnati community workgroup for healthcare connectivity, the Tri-State Community Health Status Project and the Outcomes Management Taskforce. He was also on the board of the Ohio Corporation for Health Information, a statewide effort to electronically link the public and private healthcare sector. He was Chief Privacy Officer and Vice President for Consumer Affairs at WellMed, Inc. and has frequently spoken and authored on Privacy, Security and Confidentiality of health information and ethical issues surrounding consumer health records.  He was also President of the National Emergency Health Data Center and a member of Leadership Cincinnati. 

Dr. Rozen has served as President and Chair of Hi Ethics and is one of the founders of the eHealth Initiative. He is a past board member of URAC and numerous other health advisory boards including the HIPAA Short Notice Workgroup, the Healthcare Security Certification and Accreditation Taskforce and the editorial board of In-Confidence. He is immediate past Chair of the Chair of The Medical Technology Policy Committee of IEEE-USA and Vice Chair of the Technology Policy Committee of IEEE-USA with special focus on eHealth issues in addition to his work on healthcare privacy and security issues.

Dr. Rozen is very interested in the incorporation of information and communication technologies into healthcare delivery and in using quality metrics for benchmarking evidence-based medicine for promulgation best healthcare practices. He is passionate in promoting patient centric healthcare and the adoption of biomedical technologies to enhance healthcare delivery.