One-on-One With the Founder of the Veterans Administration’s Solor Project

Dr. Keith Campbell discusses enabling semantic interoperability and High-Reliability Organization (HRO) principles through the Solor Project.  The Solor Project is a VA-sponsored initiative that seeks to improve patient safety through the improvement of data quality and harmonization of terminology standards.

Dr. Keith Campbell, Director for Informatics Architecture at the Veterans Health Administration (VHA):

Dr. Keith Campbell, an accomplished physician, informaticist, and computer scientist, is the founder of the Solor project, a US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA)-initiated effort to tackle issues of healthcare data interoperability on a national level. Dr. Campbell developed the Solor project to address patient safety risk through its interoperability framework and help connect different health care terminology data in one integrated platform. His thought-leadership has led to dedicated triumphs in reducing errors through standardization of data, enhancing collaboration via an open-source ecosystem, improving safety by reducing reliance on costly and inefficient manual data and integration practices, and enabling seamless care for our veterans and beyond.

The Veterans Health Administration

The Veterans Health Administration is America’s largest integrated health care system, providing care at 1,255 health care facilities, including 170 medical centers and 1,074 outpatient sites of care of varying complexity (VHA outpatient clinics), serving 9 million enrolled Veterans each year.

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