Dr. Jacob Krive maintains industry and academic affiliations focused on biomedical informatics, healthcare data sciences, and cognitive engineering. His research passions span such areas as clinical decision support systems, cloud computing for medical research, patient data management, predictive analytics, artificial intelligence, medical ontologies, economics of health informatics, healthcare project management innovation, master patient data management, and biomedical informatics curriculum design. In addition to his academic work, Dr. Krive is a consultant, software development lead, clinical business analyst, and data scientist with IBM Watson Health. Dr. Krive received his BS, MS, and MBA degrees from University of Maryland University College, and PhD from Nova Southeastern University. He also holds CPHIMS and Lean Six Sigma professional certifications. Dr. Krive designed several courses for the BHIS graduate program, co-founded the Healthcare Data Science track of the MS program, teaches and oversees student research, publishes, and presents his work internationally.

Selected Grants

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Selected Publications

Six Sigma applicability and implementation in healthcare. In A. Ortenblad, R. Sheaff, & C. Abrahamson Lofstrom (Eds.), Management innovations for healthcare organizations, Oxford, United Kingdom: Routledge

“Opportunities for analytical and cognitive technology innovation in cardiac oncology”, Global Cardio-Oncology Summit 2016, Vancouver, Canada

“The complexity and challenges of the ICD-9-CM to ICD-10-CM transition in emergency departments”, American Journal of Emergency Medicine

“Effectiveness of evidence-based pneumonia CPOE order sets measured by health outcomes”, Online Journal of Public Health Informatics

Service to the Community

Dr. Krive serves as a peer reviewer for such journals and conferences as Online Journal of Public Health Informatics, International Journal of Healthcare Technology and Management, BMJ Open, International Journal of Clinical Practice, eGEMs, AMIA, HIMSS, AMCIS, and a number of private and public grant review committees.

Leadership in the Profession

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Senior Member

Notable Honors

2018 - Excalibur Award for Teaching Excellence, University of Illinois at Chicago

2017 - Lab Service Award (for innovation in designing healthcare industry's first regulatory compliant medical research cloud), International Business Machines (IBM)

2017 - Managers Choice Award (for extending medical research cloud patient privacy capabilities to global standards), International Business Machines (IBM) Tokyo Research Labs

2013 - Mission Values Philosophy (MVP) Award (for designing healthcare industry’s largest integrated workforce management system), Advocate Health Care

Education

PhD, Information Systems, Nova Southeastern University, 2013
MS, Management Information Systems, University of Maryland University College, 2006
MBA, University of Maryland University College, 2005
BS, Computer Studies and Management Studies, University of Maryland University College, 2002