Adrian is CTO of Patient Privacy Rights, a global organization representing 10 million patients, and is is a pioneer in patient-centered and patient-controlled health records on the Internet. He holds an engineering degree from MIT and an MD from Harvard Medical School.
Dr. Gropper founded AMICAS (NAS:AMCS) as the first Web-based radiology PACS and the first to provide direct links to diagnostic imaging in electronic health records. Dr. Gropper founded MedCommons in 2004 to develop software for image-enabled, patient-centered health records supporting all of a patient’s caregivers. Dr. Gropper participated in many early standardization efforts including IHE, HITSP, Liberty Alliance and the Continuity of Care Record steering committee. Dr. Gropper helped create Blue Button, Direct Project, and Blue Button Plus and speaks frequently on privacy engineering in health care. He consults and participates in numerous health data policy standards groups and as a co-founder of OpenID HEAlth Relationship Trust (HEART) to develop standards and profiles for the Public API. He serves on the Board and Management Council of the Identity Ecosystem Steering Group.