Benjamin Rosner, MD, PhD

Associate Professor

Dr. Rosner is an Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, a practicing hospitalist, and an informaticist and digital health researcher at the UCSF Center for Clinical Informatics and Improvement Research. He holds affiliations at the UCSF Institute for Health Policy Studies, and the Bakar Computational Health Sciences Institute.

Dr. Rosner is a nationally recognized researcher and entrepreneur in digital health who combines industry experience with pragmatic study design. His research focuses on three main areas: 1> Feedback to physicians and health systems about their diagnostic performance (see GoodDx.org), and performance related to the implementation of digital health tools, 2. Composite measures for adherence to the 4Ms Framework for older adults (What Matters, Medication, Mentation, and Mobility) and its association with outcomes, and 3. The use of large language models (artificial intelligence) in the hospital setting.

Between 2008-2010, Dr. Rosner worked in health economics and outcomes research as a Medical Director at Archimedes, Inc., performing in silico clinical trials, publishing in the peer-reviewed literature, and influencing policy and clinical practice guidelines. Between 2011-2018, he was the founding Chief Medical Information Officer of a digital patient engagement company, where he created automated remote patient guidance and monitoring technologies, empowering healthcare providers to receive follow up on patient outcomes. In that capacity, he worked with C-suite health system leaders throughout the country, and top leadership at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. He was the lead author of CMS' Merit Based Incentive Payment System's Improvement Activity IA-BE-14, Engage Patients and Families to Guide Improvement in the System of Care. Dr. Rosner also led the Patient Engagement and Empowerment Reporting national consortium to move the industry towards quality metrics associated with engaging and empowering the patient.

Dr. Rosner serves as a digital health clinical advisor to several national digital health not-for-profit organizations, and continues to work in policy related to digital health with the FDA, the ONC, and CMS. He holds an MD and a PhD (Chemical Engineering) from the University of Minnesota and is Board Certified in both Internal Medicine and Clinical Informatics.
Education
MD, PhD, 05/2003 - Medicine and Biochemical Engineering, University of Minnesota
BS, 05/1993 - Biomechanical Engineering, Cornell University
Publications
  1. Rosner B, Horridge M, Austria G, Lee T, Auerbach A. An Ontology for Digital Medicine Outcomes: Development of the Digital Medicine Outcomes Value Set (DOVeS). JMIR medical informatics. 2025. PMID: 39914801


  2. Rosner B, Thombley R, Rogers S, Adler Milstein J. 4 Steps to 4Ms: A Navigation Guide for a Hospital-Based Composite Measure of 4Ms Care and the Implications for Outcomes Assessment. Inquiry : a journal of medical care organization, provision and financing. 2025. PMID: 40022607


  3. Barker W, Maisel N, Strawley CE, Israelit GK, Adler-Milstein J, Rosner B. A national survey of digital health company experiences with electronic health record application programming interfaces. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA. 2024. PMID: 38281124


  4. Adler-Milstein J, Thombley R, Rosenthal S, Rosner B, Rogers S. Assessing Equitable Adherence to the Age-Friendly Health System's 4Ms Framework in an Academic Inpatient Setting. Inquiry : a journal of medical care organization, provision and financing. 2024. PMID: 39314001


  5. Tierney AA, Rosner BI. Clinical Assessment of Residents: A Survey of Clinician Educators Regarding Resident Assessment Burden and Modifiable Factors. Journal of graduate medical education. 2023. PMID: 36817521


  6. Wang MD, Rosner BI, Rosenbluth G. Where Is the Digitally Silent Provider? Development and Validation of a Team-Centered Electronic Health Record Attribution Model for Supervising Residents. Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges. 2022. PMID: 36576768


  7. Patel A, Mummaneni PV, Zheng J, Rosner BI, Thombley R, Sorour O, Theodosopoulos PV, Aghi MK, Berger MS, Chang EF, Chou D, Manley GT, DiGiorgio AM. On-Call Junior Neurosurgery Residents Spend 9 hours of Their On-Call Shift Actively Using the Electronic Health Record. Neurosurgery. 2022. PMID: 36729755


  8. Rosner BI, Zwaan L, Olson APJ. Imagining the future of diagnostic performance feedback. Diagnosis (Berlin, Germany). 2022. PMID: 36378520


  9. Yang KX, Rosner BI, Chan SR, Brindis RG, Lee TM, Khanna RR, Auerbach AD.. Implementation of a Digital Health Curriculum for Healthcare Students
    2022. Vol 8, Issue 1, p 22
    Digital Medicine. 2022. PMID:


  10. Benjamin I Rosner, Joseph C Kvedar, Julia Adler-Milstein. Patient Generated Health Data Earn a Seat at the Table:Clinical Adoption During the Covid-19 Transition to Telemedicine 2015 Year Book of Pediatrics. Ed. Cabana MD. (Elsevier; Philadelphia, PA). 2021. PMID:


  11. Rosner BI, Kvedar JC, Adler-Milstein J. Patient-generated health data earn a seat at the table: clinical adoption during the COVID-19 transition to telemedicine. 2015 Year Book of Pediatrics. Ed. Cabana MD. (Elsevier; Philadelphia, PA). 2021. PMID: 35155996


  12. Stulberg Jonah
    Huang Reiping
    Chao Susan Y
    Wickline Victoria N
    Schafer Willemjin
    Ko Clifford Y
    Rosner Benjamin. Leveraging a Digital Care Platform to Drive Quality Improvement in Postoperative Opioid Medication Use Journal of the American College of Surgeons General Surgery. 2020. PMID:


  13. Salem R, Hassan S, Lewandowski RJ, Grace K, Martin RCG, Sichlau MJ, Fung J, Kim E, Chao S, Rosner BI. Quality of Life after Radioembolization for Hepatocellular Carcinoma Using a Digital Patient-Reported Outcome Tool. Journal of vascular and interventional radiology : JVIR. 2019. PMID: 31732223


  14. Benjamin Rosner. Mandating Value: Medical Conversations in B Major Journal of General Practice. 2016. PMID:


  15. Gray B, Schuetz CA, Weng W, Peskin B, Rosner B, Lipner RS. Physicians' actions and influence, such as aggressive blood pressure control, greatly improve the health of diabetes patients. Health affairs (Project Hope). 2012. PMID: 22232104


  16. Dinh TA, Rosner BI, Atwood JC, Boland CR, Syngal S, Vasen HF, Gruber SB, Burt RW. Health benefits and cost-effectiveness of primary genetic screening for Lynch syndrome in the general population. Cancer prevention research (Philadelphia, Pa.). 2010. PMID: 21088223


  17. Rosner BI, Siegel RA, Grosberg A, Tranquillo RT. Rational design of contact guiding, neurotrophic matrices for peripheral nerve regeneration. Annals of biomedical engineering. 2003. PMID: 14758929