Justin Bachmann, MD, MPH

Dr. Bachmann is a cardiologist and Assistant Professor of Medicine and Biomedical Informatics at Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC). He is the founder and Medical Director of the Vanderbilt Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement System (VPROMS), an enterprise-level initiative at VUMC to make the measurement of outcomes that matter to patients part of routine clinical care. Supported by the VUMC Office of Population Health, VPROMS has grown from 3 pilots in 2018 to covering one quarter of outpatient clinical encounters at the institution. More than one million patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) have been completed in routine clinical practice at VUMC and these data have been used to enhance clinical care, for quality improvement purposes and for clinical research. Dr. Bachmann developed an interest in operationalizing PROMs while serving as a Research Associate with Professor Michael Porter at the Institute of Strategy and Competitiveness at Harvard Business School (HBS)