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Dr. David Boston is a senior clinical informaticist and medical director at OCHIN. He is a board-certified internist and cardiologist who has been practicing cardiology for over two decades, with a special interest in preventive medicine and hypertension management. He completed his master’s degree in health informatics, with a focus on research informatics, clinical decision support, provider satisfaction, virtual care, and the quadruple aim as a guiding framework. At OCHIN, he conducts multidisciplinary collaboration over several different projects, including research. He has a strong interest in electronic health record (EHR) usability and clinical decision support (CDS) tools, especially those designed to improve cardiovascular disease (CVD) outcomes. He has been directly involved in designing and delivering telehealth solutions, including remote patient monitoring (RPM) for hypertension management and teledermatology consults. His broad history as a clinical cardiology provider and current end-user, paired with his experience in informatics and research, lends a unique voice and perspective as an investigator of EHR data and telehealth enhancements.
David has experience in working to improve all aspects of the quadruple aim through clinical education. Throughout his training and employment, he has helped with the development of students, interns, residents, fellows and clinician investigators. At OCHIN, he assists in training informatics fellows rotating through the organization and the clinical informatics department. He has served on several educational panels and committees, most recently moderating the California Telehealth Summit and evaluating national cardiovascular care quality measures for the National Quality Foundation. At OCHIN, David has been involved in various projects to enhance quality improvement and patient safety protocols in the EHR, including the development and testing of RPM reports, order panels, questionnaires, alerts, and patient portal integration. Early in his career, he worked with a pharmacist and a resident using data from his clinic to inform formulary decisions. As a cardiovascular imaging specialist, he worked as the radiation safety officer, developed chest pain protocols for the hospital, presented the latest imaging data at grand rounds, regularly convened a quality improvement panel that reviewed their data in order to track and reduce radiation in imaging, and was responsible for developing the hospital protocol for MRI in patients with pacemakers and defibrillators based on a thorough review of the published data. In addition to recent and upcoming publishing and presentation of findings from the aforementioned research, as a cardiology fellow, David worked in a lab doing basic science research. He regularly participated in the daily function of the lab, procuring cardiomyocytes for a variety of investigations. This led to a couple of published papers in peer-reviewed journals, posters, and presentations. While training in interventional cardiology, he performed a thorough literature search and published a review article on intracoronary thrombosis complicating percutaneous intervention.
Clinical education
Quality improvement and patient safety
Original research
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