Benjamin N. Hamlin, DrPH, FAMIA
Principal
Health Management Associates
Washington, DC
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Benjamin N. Hamlin is a nationally recognized leader in healthcare data quality, digital quality measurement, interoperability, and digital health transformation. A Fellow of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA), Dr. Hamlin brings more than 25 years of experience spanning healthcare information technology, quality improvement, health policy, informatics, analytics, research, and organizational change management.
With Health Management Associates (HMA), Dr. Hamlin advises healthcare organizations, government agencies, health plans, providers, and health information networks on strategies that advance data-driven transformation and improve healthcare quality, performance, and value. His expertise includes digital quality measures (dQMs), electronic clinical quality measures (eCQMs), interoperability, clinical decision support, healthcare data quality, data governance, real-world evidence generation, and population health analytics.
He is widely recognized for his contributions to the advancement of healthcare interoperability and quality measurement standards, including serving as the principal architect of the Electronic Clinical Data Systems (ECDS) reporting framework. This pioneering framework established a foundation for leveraging interoperable clinical, administrative, and patient-generated data to support quality measurement, population health management, and value-based care. He also has extensive experience applying standards and frameworks such as FHIR, CQL, BPM+, OMOP, PIQI, and USCDI to enable scalable, interoperable quality measurement and learning health systems.
Dr. Hamlin is known for translating emerging technologies and complex regulatory and policy requirements into practical strategies that help organizations achieve measurable improvements in healthcare quality, interoperability, and data-driven performance. An active contributor to national quality and interoperability initiatives, he serves on multiple expert panels, advisory committees, and technical expert workgroups focused on the development, implementation, and evaluation of digital quality measures.
Throughout his career, Dr. Hamlin has collaborated extensively with federal agencies, standards development organizations, measure developers, healthcare providers, health plans, and health information networks to advance digital quality measurement, and emerging healthcare data quality frameworks. These efforts have helped shape approaches to standardized data capture, exchange, and reuse, enabling more efficient quality reporting, stronger data quality, and greater alignment across clinical care, public health, research, and value-based care programs.
Dr. Hamlin earned a Doctor of Public Health from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, a Master of Public Health Policy from Columbia University, and a bachelor’s degree in molecular biology from the College of Wooster.