Spencer Tavares, DO

Physician Informaticist

Dedicated to providing high quality care medical care through innovative application of the electronic medical record. Informatics researcher and organizational leader, physician builder. Skilled internal medicine physician.

• Clinical Informatics, ABPM
• Internal Medicine, ABIM

• Order Set analytic dashboard development and implementation
• EHR efficiency didactic series
• Primary care clinic note template optimization
• Dynamic Nurse Smartset for Primary Care
• Synopsis reports, Timeline reports, development and optimization
• Preference list review for denied claims
• EHR alert analytic dashboard, EHR alert metrics dashboard
• Best Practice Advisory Organization Analytics Dashboard
• Provider Feedback Dashboard for Best Practice Advisories
• Actionable Health Maintenance Topic storyboard design
• Pediatric sepsis EHR based detection system in the ED
• Electronic alerts to meet 2019 ACC cholesterol guidelines

• Epic XGM, May 2023 – Optimized Note Templates - Improving Provider Interaction with the EHR.
• Epic XGM, May 2022 – Data Driven Optimization of Order Sets, Note Templates, and Best Practice Alerts.
• AMIA ACIF, Sept 2020 – Building Analytic Tools with SQL and data visualization software to improve clinical informatics projects.

Physician Builder - Epic Systems

Physician Builder Analytics - Epic Systems

• Overcoming technical and cultural challenges to delivering equitable care for LGBTQ+ individuals in a rural, underserved area. JAMIA. 2021
• Medical Evaluation Board for Mental Health Condition: U.S. Army Officer Medical Evaluation Boards Data by Branch and Component. Military Medicine. 2017

• Improving Electronic Alert Effectiveness using Insights from Psychology and Behavioral Economics. AMIA Clinical Informatics Conference. 2021
• Improving Transitions of Care Using a Software Generated List of Labs Pending at Discharge. Presented at NYCOMEC Research Poster Competition in June 18, 2019.
• Intractable Abdominal Pain in a Neurofibromatosis Type 1 Patient Secondary to a GIST. New York Chapter of the ACP’s Annual Scientific Meeting.

• English, native
• Spanish, fluent

• American College of Physicians
• American Medical Informatics Association