Biography
August “Augie” Turano is the director of Data Migration and Management in the Veterans Administration (VA) Electronic Health Record Modernization Integration Office (EHRM-IO) and brings real world health informatics into the classroom. Current projects include: moving data from the VA VistA EHRM to the VA Corporate Data Warehouse (CDW), Oracle Health and the Azure cloud; moving data out of Oracle Health (data syndication) for operations, research and reports, and visualizations; and developing applications to support EHRM-IO and clinicians across the VA.
Turano is focused primarily on solution architecture, database technology, system performance, data mining, development tools, and establishing teams to solve complex problems. His current VA team works on all aspects of enterprise projects, including: storage, VM’s, containers, networking, databases, software, hardware and analytics. Turano is familiar with numerous modern computer languages, databases and big data environments that enable large IT projects.
Education
- Bachelor of Science in Chemistry, University of Pittsburgh
- Doctor of Philosophy in Structural Biophysics, University of Pittsburgh
Awards
- Named as one of FedHealthIT 100 for contributions to Federal Health care, 2021
- Presidential Commendation signed by Barrack Obama for IT Contributions, 2016
- Presidential Commendation signed by President Bush for national cost savings in the VA, 1992
Research Interests
- Human Factor improvement in EHRs
- Performance improvements in Big Data environments
- Machine Learning, Large Language Model and AI
Publications
- “A Natural Language Processing System for National COVID-19 Surveillance in the US Department of Veterans Affairs.”
- “Using Voogle to Search Within Patient Records in the VA Corporate Data Warehouse.”
- “Building the Clinical Personalized Pragmatic Prediction of Outcomes (Clinical3PO) Pipeline Within U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.”
