Benjamin Rosner, MD, PhD
Associate Professor
Medicine
School of Medicine
Dr. Rosner is an Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, a practicing hospitalist, and an informaticist and digital health researcher at the UCSF Center for Clinical Informatics and Improvement Research. He holds affiliations at the UCSF Institute for Health Policy Studies, and the Bakar Computational Health Sciences Institute.
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Dr. Rosner is a nationally recognized researcher and entrepreneur in digital health who combines industry experience with pragmatic study design. His research focuses on three main areas: 1> Feedback to physicians and health systems about their diagnostic performance (see GoodDx.org), and performance related to the implementation of digital health tools, 2. Composite measures for adherence to the 4Ms Framework for older adults (What Matters, Medication, Mentation, and Mobility) and its association with outcomes, and 3. The use of large language models (artificial intelligence) in the hospital setting.
Between 2008-2010, Dr. Rosner worked in health economics and outcomes research as a Medical Director at Archimedes, Inc., performing in silico clinical trials, publishing in the peer-reviewed literature, and influencing policy and clinical practice guidelines. Between 2011-2018, he was the founding Chief Medical Information Officer of a digital patient engagement company, where he created automated remote patient guidance and monitoring technologies, empowering healthcare providers to receive follow up on patient outcomes. In that capacity, he worked with C-suite health system leaders throughout the country, and top leadership at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. He was the lead author of CMS' Merit Based Incentive Payment System's Improvement Activity IA-BE-14, Engage Patients and Families to Guide Improvement in the System of Care. Dr. Rosner also led the Patient Engagement and Empowerment Reporting national consortium to move the industry towards quality metrics associated with engaging and empowering the patient.
Dr. Rosner serves as a digital health clinical advisor to several national digital health not-for-profit organizations, and continues to work in policy related to digital health with the FDA, the ONC, and CMS. He holds an MD and a PhD (Chemical Engineering) from the University of Minnesota and is Board Certified in both Internal Medicine and Clinical Informatics.
Education & Training
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- MD, PhD Medicine and Biochemical Engineering University of Minnesota 05/2003
- BS Biomechanical Engineering Cornell University 05/1993
Websites
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- Blog (tincture.io)
- Posts on X See me at Mastodon Social at BenRosnerMD_PhD@sfba.social (X.com)
Publications (25)
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Biological OntologiesMedical InformaticsArthroplasty, Replacement, KneeEcosystemPatient AdmissionOrthopedicsInternship and ResidencyElectronic Health RecordsEmbolization, TherapeuticRadiopharmaceuticalsPatient DischargeArthroplasty, Replacement, HipYttrium RadioisotopesPatient Reported Outcome MeasuresSchwann Cells
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An Ontology for Digital Medicine Outcomes: Development of the Digital Medicine Outcomes Value Set (DOVeS).
JMIR medical informatics 2025 Rosner B, Horridge M, Austria G, Lee T, Auerbach A -
4 Steps to 4Ms: A Navigation Guide for a Hospital-Based Composite Measure of 4Ms Care and the Implications for Outcomes Assessment.
Inquiry : a journal of medical care organization, provision and financing 2025 Rosner B, Thombley R, Rogers S, Adler Milstein J -
A national survey of digital health company experiences with electronic health record application programming interfaces.
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA 2024 Barker W, Maisel N, Strawley CE, Israelit GK, Adler-Milstein J, Rosner B -
Assessing Equitable Adherence to the Age-Friendly Health System's 4Ms Framework in an Academic Inpatient Setting.
Inquiry : a journal of medical care organization, provision and financing 2024 Adler-Milstein J, Thombley R, Rosenthal S, Rosner B, Rogers S -
Clinical Assessment of Residents: A Survey of Clinician Educators Regarding Resident Assessment Burden and Modifiable Factors.
Journal of graduate medical education 2023 Tierney AA, Rosner BI
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Where Is the Digitally Silent Provider? Development and Validation of a Team-Centered Electronic Health Record Attribution Model for Supervising Residents.
Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges 2022 Wang MD, Rosner BI, Rosenbluth G -
On-Call Junior Neurosurgery Residents Spend 9 hours of Their On-Call Shift Actively Using the Electronic Health Record.
Neurosurgery 2022 Patel A, Mummaneni PV, Zheng J, Rosner BI, Thombley R, Sorour O, Theodosopoulos PV, Aghi MK, Berger MS, Chang EF, Chou D, Manley GT, DiGiorgio AM -
Imagining the future of diagnostic performance feedback.
Diagnosis (Berlin, Germany) 2022 Rosner BI, Zwaan L, Olson APJ -
Implementation of a Digital Health Curriculum for Healthcare Students
2022. Vol 8, Issue 1, p 22
Digital Medicine 2022 Yang KX, Rosner BI, Chan SR, Brindis RG, Lee TM, Khanna RR, Auerbach AD. -
Patient Generated Health Data Earn a Seat at the Table:Clinical Adoption During the Covid-19 Transition to Telemedicine
JAMIA Open 2021 Benjamin I Rosner, Joseph C Kvedar, Julia Adler-Milstein -
Patient-generated health data earn a seat at the table: clinical adoption during the COVID-19 transition to telemedicine.
JAMIA open 2021 Rosner BI, Kvedar JC, Adler-Milstein J -
Digital Health, Telehealth, and Primary Care Post-COVID: A Discussion with Kim Boyd and Joe Kvedar, Moderated by Benjamin Rosner
Digital Biomarkers 2020 Rosner BI, Morozov M, Andoni A -
Digital Health, Telehealth, and Primary Care Post-COVID: A Discussion with Kim Boyd and Joe Kvedar, Moderated by Benjamin Rosner.
Digital biomarkers 2020 Rosner BI, Morozov M, Andoni A -
NODE. Health Meeting Report and Panel Discussion - The FDA's Changing Regulatory Landscape for Digital Health Technologies and Digital Health Innovation during COVID-19: A Discussion with Eric Topol and Bakul Patel, Moderated by Aenor Sawyer.
Digital biomarkers 2020 Andoni A, Ramedani S, Rosner BI, Sawyer A -
NODE.Health Meeting Report and Panel Discussion - The FDA's Changing Regulatory Landscape for Digital Health Technologies and Digital Health Innovation during COVID-19: A Discussion with eric Topol and Bakul Patel, Moderated by Aenor Sawyer
Digital Biomarkers 2020 Andoni A, Ramedani S, Rosner BI, Sawyer A -
Leveraging a Digital Care Platform to Drive Quality Improvement in Postoperative Opioid Medication Use
Journal of the American College of Surgeons General Surgery 2020 Stulberg Jonah Huang Reiping Chao Susan Y Wickline Victoria N Schafer Willemjin Ko Clifford Y Rosner Benjamin -
Quality of Life after Radioembolization for Hepatocellular Carcinoma Using a Digital Patient-Reported Outcome Tool.
Journal of vascular and interventional radiology : JVIR 2019 Salem R, Hassan S, Lewandowski RJ, Grace K, Martin RCG, Sichlau MJ, Fung J, Kim E, Chao S, Rosner BI -
Navigating the Digital Health Ecosystem to Bridge the Gap from Innovation to Transformation: A NODE. Health Perspective on Digital Evidence.
Digital biomarkers 2019 Van Winkle B, Solad Y, Vaswani N, Rosner BI -
Accuracy of Internet-Based Patient Self-Report of Postdischarge Health Care Utilization and Complications Following Orthopedic Procedures: Observational Cohort Study.
Journal of medical Internet research 2018 Rosner BI, Gottlieb M, Anderson WN -
Effectiveness of an Automated Digital Remote Guidance and Telemonitoring Platform on Costs, Readmissions, and Complications After Hip and Knee Arthroplasties.
The Journal of arthroplasty 2017 Rosner BI, Gottlieb M, Anderson WN -
Mandating Value: Medical Conversations in B Major
Journal of General Practice 2016 Benjamin Rosner -
Physicians' actions and influence, such as aggressive blood pressure control, greatly improve the health of diabetes patients.
Health affairs (Project Hope) 2012 Gray B, Schuetz CA, Weng W, Peskin B, Rosner B, Lipner RS -
Health benefits and cost-effectiveness of primary genetic screening for Lynch syndrome in the general population.
Cancer prevention research (Philadelphia, Pa.) 2010 Dinh TA, Rosner BI, Atwood JC, Boland CR, Syngal S, Vasen HF, Gruber SB, Burt RW -
Schwann cell behavior in three-dimensional collagen gels: evidence for differential mechano-transduction and the influence of TGF-beta 1 in morphological polarization and differentiation.
Experimental neurology 2005 Rosner BI, Hang T, Tranquillo RT -
Rational design of contact guiding, neurotrophic matrices for peripheral nerve regeneration.
Annals of biomedical engineering 2003 Rosner BI, Siegel RA, Grosberg A, Tranquillo RT