Himali Saitwal, MS

Director of Clinical Informatics

Himali Saitwal is a clinical informaticist, and a terminologist with 15 years of experience in clinical and social care data standardization, health information exchange, and value set authoring for Meaningful Use.

Himali’s passion to work on state-of-the-art informatics projects led her to contribute to data standardization projects across multiple federal and private agencies including National Children Study, Food and Drug Administration, and Children’s Hospital Association. Himali has participated in value-set authoring for NCQA and its inclusion in the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid (CMS) EHR incentive program and has led agile data standardization efforts between the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD). 

Himali’s graduate research work on EHR Usability Analysis and Cross-terminology mapping challenges is published in renowned informatics journals and has been widely used in the informatics community for over a decade with 100 plus citations for which she was nominated as an American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) student paper finalist in 2009. 

In her current role at EMI as Sr. Clinical Informatics Lead, Himali oversees and contributes to multiple data standardization and interoperability projects including the Gravity project – a national consensus initiative to forge the data and data standards for social risks within the field of social care, Multiple Chronic Conditions (MCC) eCare Plan project an eCare plan effort that aims to enable access to comprehensive, person-centered Information.

Himali holds a master’s degree in biomedical informatics from the University of Texas, School of Biomedical Informatics, and a bachelor’s degree in medicine from India. She resides in Sugar Land, TX with her husband and two kids.