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About Shuhan He, MD
Dr. Shuhan He is an attending physician in the Emergency Department at MGH. Dr. He graduated from the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California and completed his residency training at Brigham and Women’s/Massachusetts General Hospital Harvard Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency.
Shuhan He, MD is faculty at the Lab of Computer Science (LCS) at Massachusetts General Hospital (the MGH) as an Instructor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School (HMS) as well as a hospital administrative role at the Center for Innovation in Digital HealthCare at Massachusetts General Hospital as Director of Growth. He focuses on the use of technology at scale to solve problems in the healthcare system.
Clinical Interests:
- Acute Emergency Care
- Applied Information Technologies to improve patient care
- Emergency medicine
- Neurovascular emergencies
- Research
Treats:
- Adult
Languages:
- Chinese, Spanish
Locations
Mass General Emergency Medicine
55 Fruit St.
Boston, MA 02115
Phone: 617-724-4100
Medical Education
- MD, Keck School of Medicine - University of Southern California
- Residency, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Accepted Insurance Plans
- Aetna Health Inc.
- AllWays Health (NHP) - ACD
- AllWays Health (NHP) - PBO
- Beech Street
- Blue Cross Blue Shield - Blue Care 65
- Blue Cross Blue Shield - Indemnity
- Blue Cross Blue Shield - Managed Care
- Blue Cross Blue Shield - Partners Plus
- BMC HealthNet Mass Health MCO/ACO
- Cigna (PAL #'s)
- Commonwealth Care Alliance
- Fallon Community HealthCare
- Great-West Healthcare (formally One Health Plan)
- Harvard Pilgrim Health Plan - ACD
- Harvard Pilgrim Health Plan - PBO
- Health Care Value Management (HCVM)
- Humana/Choice Care PPO
- Maine Community Health Options (MCHO)
- MassHealth
- Medicare
- Medicare - ACD
- OSW - Connecticut
- OSW - Maine
- OSW - New Hampshire
- OSW - Rhode Island
- Private Health Care Systems (PHCS)
- Railroad Medicare
- Railroad Medicare - ACD
- Senior Whole Health
- TriCare
- Tufts Health Plan
- Unicare
- United Healthcare (non-HMO) - ACD
- United Healthcare (non-HMO) - PBO
- Well Sense Pediatrics
Note: This provider may accept more insurance plans than shown; please call the practice to find out if your plan is accepted.
Research
Shuhan He is an investigator who looks at the way digital technologies can improve health outcomes and communications with patients. He is an investigator on the Get Waivered project through his lab.
He is a coauthor on the anatomical heart and lung emojis.
He also works in technology transfer with private industry as well as reverse tech transfer for health tech validation within the clinical context.
Shuhan He, MD NIH research profile