Karen Bates
Health Data And Informatics, Senior
Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
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Top SchoolKaren Bates is a health informatics professional with six years of experience translating clinical needs into standards-based data solutions, currently senior Health Data and Informatics at MITRE in Ann Arbor. She coordinates public–private partnerships and HL7 community engagement to advance FHIR implementation for cardiovascular care, producing practical resources that help researchers and implementers. Her background spans healthcare data analysis, vaccination verification standard design, and building mobile tools for workforce monitoring, grounded in Python-based analytics and multi-source data integration. Trained with a Master of Health Informatics from the University of Michigan, she combines policy analysis and operational project management to move standards from concept to adoption. Prior roles in media planning and research sharpen her ability to communicate technical insights to diverse stakeholders and train teammates. Colleagues describe her as a connector who pairs technical rigor with pragmatic stakeholder facilitation to accelerate health data interoperability.
6 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), History and Museum Studies, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), History and Museum Studies at University of Michigan
English, Spanish
Github Skills (13)
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synthetic9
simulation9
synthetic-data9
simulator8
terminology7
health7
voting6
python6
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mhealth4
web-application1
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
mcode/cardx
May 2022 - Jul 2022
Contributions:9 PRs, 12 pushes, 9 branches in 2 months
karbates/final-project-covid19
Apr 2020 - Apr 2020
Contributions:11 commits, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 10 days
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