Dr. Horng divides his time between clinical practice and the design and evaluation of emergency medicine informatics innovations. He specializes in translational clinical informatics and focuses his research on novel methods of artificial intelligence to improve the quality and efficiency of emergency care. He is the primary investigator on a Department of Defense grant investigating novel sepsis surveillance algorithms, and has recently launched a Google Glass pilot program at the BIDMC emergency department, testing Glass for clinical use at the bedside. His research and consulting activities focus on translational clinical informatics through leveraging machine learning to the clinical domain, contextual information retrieval, and targeted decision support. Dr. Horng serves as secretary of the ACEP Section of Medical Informatics and is the principal investigator for the creation of a standardized chief complaint ontology for the nation.
SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
Dr. Horng is an Clinical Instructor of Emergency Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Other speaking and teaching engagements include:
- 2014; Keynote Speaker, Google Glass Challenge, MedTech Boston
- 2013; An EHR-Integrated Mobile App Quantitatively Improves Emergency Medicine Resident NIH Stroke Scale Documentation; Society for Academic Emergency Medicine Annual Conference, Atlanta, GA
- 2013; The Efficacy of Electronic Versus Paper Medical Student Evaluations; Society for Academic Emergency Medicine Annual Conference, Atlanta, GA
- 2013; Agreement Between Global Assessment and Individual Competencies of Medical Student Performance; Society for Academic Emergency Medicine Annual Conference, Atlanta, GA
- 2012; Predicting ICU Admission and Mortality at Triage using an Automated Computer Algorithm; Society for Academic Emergency Medicine Annual Conference, Chicago, IL
- 2010; Resident Experience Mapping: A Novel Use of Graphical Analytic Tools and Electronic Medical Records for the Evaluation of Resident Clinical Experience; Society for Academic Emergency Medicine Annual Conference, Phoenix, AZ
PUBLICATIONS
- Steven Horng MD, John D. Halamka MD, Larry A. Nathanson MD. Informatics in the Emergency Department. Emergency Department Leadership and Management. Cambridge University Press. (in press)
- Jernite Y, Halpern Y, Horng S, Sontag DA. Predicting Chief Complaints at Triage Time in the Emergency Department. NIPS 2013 Workshop on Machine Learning for Clinical Data Analysis and Healthcare, Dec. 2013.
- Horng S, Pezzella L, Tibbles CD, Wolfe RE, Hurst JM, Nathanson LA. Prospective Evaluation of Daily Performance Metrics to Reduce Emergency Department Length of Stay for Surgical Consults. J Emerg Med. 2013 Feb;44(2):519-25.
- Henning D, Horng S, Sanchez L. Evaluating How Electronic Charting Affects Resident Productivity. Intern Emerg Med. 2013 Mar;8(2):169-72.
- Horng S, Goss FR, Chen RS, Nathanson LA. Prospective Pilot Study of a Tablet Computer in an Emergency Department. Int J Med Inform. 2012 May; 81(5):314-9.
- Halpern Y, Horng S, Nathanson LA, Shapiro NI, Sontag DA. A Comparison of Dimensionality Reduction Techniques for Unstructured Clinical Text. ICML 2012 Workshop on Clinical Data Analysis, July 2012.
- Halpern Y, Horng S, Nathanson LA, Shapiro NI, Sontag DA. Patient Surveillance Algorithms for the Emergency Department. NIPS Workshop. Sierra Nevada, Spain, Dec 16, 2011.
EDUCATION
- MD – Chicago Medical School (Chicago, IL) 2007
- Emergency Medicine Residency: Maimonides Medical Center (Brooklyn, NY) 2010
- Emergency Informatics Fellowship: Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (Boston, MA) 2012
- MMSc Biomedical Informatics: Harvard Medical School (Boston, MA) 2012