James Foster

James Foster, MD, MMSc

Master of Medical Science in Biomedical Informatics, Class of 2013

James Foster is a Postdoctoral Fellow at The Division of Clinical Informatics. His clinical work is based out of the emergency department at Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital in Boston, MA. Foster is developing mobile-platform technologies to assist the emergency physician in improving and streamlining patient care and documenting. "Emergency medicine is a time-based specialty. Therefore, using emerging mobile device technologies with wireless, imaging and touch-screen capabilities may improve efficiency. The emergency physician is interrupted very frequently and presented with asynchronous information. Documenting on-the-go both saves time and may improve documenting accuracy." Currently Foster is working with the iPhone and iPad devices for use in the emergency department. His first major project involves a unique interface for the physician to document critical EKG findings with the iPad.

Previous Education
  • MD, University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine - 2008