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Barry P. Chaiken, MD, MPH,
FHIMSS has over 20 years experience in medical research, continuous quality
improvement, risk management and patient safety. As founder of his own company,
he worked on quality improvement studies and clinical investigations for the
National Institutes of Health, Boston University Medical School, and the
British National Health Service..
Over the past 15 years
Chaiken provided expertise in quality and patient safety to provider and payor organizations helping them utilize information
technology to improve clinical and administrative activities. He has served as
guest lecturer and consultant on topics including patient safety, clinician
adoption of information technology, quality improvement and managed care.
Chaiken also assisted hospitals and technology firms in the creation of medical
software products and authoring of marketing communication materials.
Chaiken is board certified
in General Preventive Medicine and Public Health as well as Health Care Quality
Management. He is currently Chief Medical Officer at DocsNetwork, Ltd. where he provides
thought leadership and offers clients his expertise in clinical transformation
and quality improvement. Chaiken serves as Chief Medical Informatics Officer at
Symphony Corporation and on the
healthcare advisory boards of Evolvent
Technologies, Inc. and Logical
Images, Inc. He has delivered more than 50 CME lectures, and is currently
on the editorial board of the Journal of Patient Safety and the journal of
Patient Safety and Quality Healthcare. Chaiken writes a column on technology
and quality for the journal Patient Safety and Quality Health Care.
Chaiken received his medical
degree from SUNY Downstate Medical Center, NYC, his masters in public health
degree in health services administration from the Harvard School of Public
Health and his bachelors of arts degree in psychology
from the University at Albany. He acquired his specialty training from the
Centers for Disease Control as an Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer and
from the New Jersey State Department of Health as a preventive medicine
resident. He is also a Board member, Board Liaison to HIMSS Europe, 2009-2010 Board
Chair and a Fellow of the Health Information
Management and Systems Society (HIMSS). Chaiken holds an appointment as Adjunct
Assistant Professor in the Department of Public Health and Family Medicine at
Tufts University School of Medicine.
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2008 to
present
2003 - 2005
1995 - 1996
1985 - 1992
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DocsNetwork,
Ltd., Boston, MA
Founder
and Chief Medical Officer of this informatics and health care consulting
firm.
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Provides
business development support as part-time Chief Medical Informatics Officer
and Advisory Board lead to several healthcare technology companies.
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Co-produced
five profitable healthcare IT conferences with each attracting over 150
C-suite level attendees.
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Reorganized
and redirected educational programs in quality improvement and patient safety
for medical professional society.
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Principal
investigator for several $50,000 Phase I Small
Business Innovation Research grants from the National Institutes of Health.
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Managed
$600,000 development project for software to be used for accreditation of
physician internal medicine training programs.
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2005 -
2008
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BearingPoint,
Inc., Boston, MA
Associate
Chief Medical Officer of this management consulting company.
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Author
bi-monthly column on quality and healthcare information technology for
industry publication.
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Deliver
thought leadership on clinical information technology issues.
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Frequent
spokesman for healthcare practice on patient safety and information
technology.
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Led
content team building quality and patient safety website targeted at hospital
CEOs.
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Key member
of clinical transformation team.
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1997 -
2003
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McKesson
Corporation, Boston, MA
Vice
President, Medical Affairs for this health care information technology
company.
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Provided
clinical marketing support to enterprise information tools.
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Frequent
spokesman for company on patient safety and information technology.
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Developed
relationships with national and international health care organizations.
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Authored
marketing collaterals for clinically based software products and consulting.
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Led
clinical sales and marketing efforts for IT managed care products.
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Incorporated
physician led client association.
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Provided
clinical liaison support for this organization’s provider profiling, case
management, and claims review information technology tools.
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1996 -
1997
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Confer
Software (Araxsys, Inc.), Redwood
City, CA
Corporate
Medical Director for this health care workflow software company.
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Contributed
to product development through feature / function documentation and
integration review.
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Authored
concept articles on clinical workflow tools.
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Participated
in public relations campaign to enhance product and corporate visibility.
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Assisted
in strategic planning for rapidly growing company.
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Facilitated
sales process and client support services through clinical input.
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1993 -
1995
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GMIS,
Inc., Boston, MA
Director
for Clinical Marketing (1995), Vice President for Clinical Marketing, Medical
Intelligence/GMIS (1993-1995) for this health information company.
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Introduced
provider profiling and appropriateness tools to health care payor clients.
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Established
public relations campaign to enhance product and corporate visibility.
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Researched
and defined market for appropriateness protocols.
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Forged
relationships with respected medical organizations.
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1992-1993
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Health
Risk Management, Inc., Minneapolis, MN
Vice
President for Medical Planning and Development for this utilization
management company.
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Constructed
external expert panels for practice guideline development.
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Edited
position papers on practice guidelines for utilization management physicians.
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1986-1988
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Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, MA
Clinical Investigator.
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1985
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New Jersey
State Department of Health, Trenton,
NJ
Preventive
medicine resident, board certified in General Preventive Medicine and Public
Health, 1986.
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1984
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Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta,
GA
Epidemic
Intelligence Service officer.
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1982
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Brockton Hospital, Brockton,
MA
Internal
medicine resident.
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1981
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SUNY Downstate
Medical Center, Brooklyn,
NY
Doctor of
Medicine degree.
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1981
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Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA
Master of Public
Health degree.
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1977
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State University of New
York at Albany,
Albany, NY
Bachelor
of Arts, Psychology, Magna Cum Laude.
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Interests
Furniture
building, marathoning, hiking, biking, theater,
ballet, winemaking, and baseball.
Chaiken BP. Healthcare IT
solutions. In K. H. Cohn and D. E. Hough (Eds.), The Business of Healthcare, Vol. 3, Improving
systems of care. p.119-141. Praeger, Westport, CT.
Chaiken BP. If You Build It, Will They Come?
Canadian Healthcare Manager. 2003:Aug.;33.
Chaiken BP. Technology Helps Eliminate Medical
Errors. Health Care Quality Means Business: Special Supplement to Managed Care.
2003:12(1):15-17.
Chaiken BP. Opinion: Pearls From Across the Pond:
Improving Patient Safety in the US Health Care System. iHealthbeat,
California Healthcare Foundation, www.ihealthbeat.org. 2002:Dec.
20.
Chaiken BP. Opinion: Clinical Guidelines at Point of
Care Needed to Improve Quality, Safety. iHealthbeat,
California Healthcare Foundation, www.ihealthbeat.org. 2002:Oct. 11.
Meadows G, Chaiken BP. Computerized Physician Order
Entry: A prescription for patient safety. Nursing Economics,
2002:20(2):76-77, 87.
Maloney K, Chaiken BP. An Overview of Outcomes Research
and Measurement. Journal of Healthcare Quality, 1999;21(6):4-9.
Chaiken BP: Linking
Performance Evaluation to Incentives. Physician Leader’s
Guide, 2nd Ed., © 1998, Capitol Publications Inc., p. 85-91.
Chaiken BP, Thompson M. Enhancing Quality / Controlling Costs: Using
Internet Technology To Apply Workflow To Healthcare. Healthcare Information
Management, 1997;11(3):73-80.
Chaiken BP: Workflow in Healthcare: A white paper published by Araxsys,
Inc.
Chaiken BP: Computers in Medicine: Impact on Provider Profiling. Virginia
Medical Quarterly, 1996;123(4):238-240.
Chaiken BP: Evolution of UR Criteria: Appropriateness Protocols and
Managed Care. Managed Care Medicine; 1996, 3:16-21.
Chaiken BP: The First Steps Taken: Awareness of the Need and
Establishment of Fellowships. Medical Interface; 1995;8(10):126-127.
Chaiken BP: The Impact of Information Technology on Health Care. Managed
Care Medicine; 1994;5:18-23.
Chaiken BP, Rettig PF, Breslin PT: Judging New Ventures: Study the Plan.
Trustee 1988;41:15,23.
Chaiken BP, Williams N, Preblud S, Parkin W, Altman R: The Effect of a
School Entry Law on Mumps Activity in a School District. Journal of the
American Medical Association 1987;257:2455-2458.
Chaiken BP, Stearns FE: A System for Quality Control Under DRGs. DRG
Monitor 1986;4 (3):1-8.
Budnick LD, Chaiken BP: The Probability of Dying of Injuries by the Year
2000. Journal of the American Medical Association 1985;254:3350-3352.
Mumps Outbreak - New Jersey. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report 1984;33:421,422,427-430.
Blake PA, Wachsmuth K, Davis BR, Bopp CA, Chaiken
BP, Lee JV. Toxigenic Vibrio cholerae O1
strain from Mexico identical to United States isolates. Lancet.
1983 Oct 15;2(8355):912.
Interstate Common-Source Outbreaks of Staphylococcal
Food Poisoning - North Carolina, Pennsylvania. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report 1983;32:183-184,189.
Academy of Medicine of Cleveland/Northern Ohio Medical Association
The Potential of Health Information
Technology to Reduce Errors and Reduce Premiums, Cleveland, OH, 3/05
Agency for the Development and Evaluation of Medicine
Design and Implementation of Practice Guidelines, Paris,
France, 4/93
AIC Worldwide
Utilizing Episode Based Provider Profiling to Target
Medical Management, Durham, NC, 3/99
Alliance for CME
Using Computer and Web Technology in Education and
Proficiency Testing, San Diego, CA, 1/98
Integrating CME/CE in Decision Support and Point-of-Care
Systems, San Diego, CA, 1/98sin
American Association of Health Plans
Aligning Technology Strategies with Business Goals,
Orlando, FL, 11/98
American Board of Quality Assurance and Utilization Physicians
Achieving ROI Through Quality Initiatives: Six Sigma,
Workflow and Clinical IT, Orlando, FL, 11/03
Disease Management and Medical
Error: How Managing the Disease May Reduce the Risk, Orlando, FL, 10/02
Program Director, The Health Care Information Highway,
Chicago, IL, 7/95
Program Director, Quality Health Care for an Aging America, Orlando, FL, 3/95
Program Co-Chairman, Clinical Practice Guidelines, Orlando, FL, 3/93, Phoenix,
AZ 5/94
Managed Care: Added Risks?, Philadelphia, PA, 10/97
Mining the Internet: Capturing Information On-line, Philadelphia, PA 10/97
Putting it Together: Linking Structure, Process and Outcomes and QA/UR/RM
Activities, Atlanta, GA, 6/97
NCQA Standards for Physicians Organization Certification Programs, Atlanta, GA,
6/97
QI/UM Informatics: Outcomes, Profiling, Internet, Mesa, AZ, 3/97
Alternative Care Delivery, San Francisco, CA, 9/96
Physician Profiling and Changing Physician Behavior, Dallas, TX, 6/96
Physician / Provider Profiling, Dallas, TX, 9/95
Monitoring Physician Quality: State and Private Sector Initiatives, Orlando,
FL, 3/95
Profiling Providers, Orlando, FL, 7/94
QA/UR Through Computer Literacy, Orlando, FL, 7/94
American Board of Quality Assurance and Utilization Physicians - Core
Body of Knowledge Course
Profiling, Outcomes and Informatics, 1997 to present
Health Care Delivery Systems and Managed Care, 1997 to present
Managed Care, 1994 to 1996
Health Care Delivery Systems, 1993 to 1996
Peer Review Organizations (PROs): An Overview, 1995 to 1996
Economic Credentialing and Provider Profiling: Implications for Practitioners,
1995
The HCFA Initiatives, 1995
Health Care Systems and Popular Organizational Models, 1994
Considerations on Quality in Major Health Care Reform Proposals, 1994
Resource Based Relative Value Scales, 1993
Statistics, Epidemiology and Computers in Quality Assurance, 1992 to 1993
American
College of Healthcare Executives
Patient Safety: Taking Steps
Forward, Memphis, TN, 8/01 and New Orleans, LA, 10/01
American College of Physician Executives
Provider Profiling, Atlanta, GA, 5/96
Clinical Profiles: Cornerstone on Managed Care, Chicago, IL, 5/95
American Hospital Association – Health Forum
Minding the Gap: Combining path
Innovation and Collaboration, San Francisco, CA, 7/06
Arkansas Medical Society
Evaluating Appropriateness of Care, Hot Springs, AR, 4/95
American Society for Quality
Clear and Lasting Danger: Pandemic Flu, and How IT Can
Help, Milwaukee, WI, 5/06
American Subacute Care Association
Using an Internet/Intranet Enabled Software System to
Enhance Outcomes, San Francisco, CA, 1/97
Blue Cross Blue Shield Association
Evolution of Criteria: Protocols for Medical
Appropriateness, San Francisco, CA, 10/93
British Computer Society - Primary Health Care Specialist Group
Enhancing Workflow and Clinical IT Adoption to Advance
Patient Safety, Heythrop Park, Oxfordshire,
UK, 6/04
Quality Initiatives: Using Clinical IT to Directly Impact Care, Heythrop Park, Oxfordshire, UK,
6/04
Cardiovascular Knowledge Center Consortium
Your Genie in the Bottle:
Processes, Quality & Outcomes, St. Augustine, FL, 3/06
Clinical Economics
Practice Guidelines for Disease State Management, Boston,
MA, 9/95
College of
Health Information Management System Executives
Clinician Adoption: Its
Importance In Successful IT Deployment, On-Line Webinar, 10/02
Patient Safety, On-Line Webinar, 6/02
Digital
Healthcare Conference
Clear and Lasting Danger: Pandemic Flu, and How IT Can Help, Madison, WI, 5/06
Panelist: Unity of Focus: Mapping Business Objectives to Digital Healthcare
Strategies, Madison, WI, 5/06
Keynote: Clinical Transformation: Changing The Way We Do Things, Not Just the
Tools, Madison, WI, 6/05
Quality Initiatives: Using Clinical IT to Directly Impact Care, Madison, WI,
6/04
Conference Chairperson, 2004 to 2007
Disease
Management Colloquium
Using Predictive Modeling to
Target Interventions, Philadelphia, PA, 6/04
eHealth Summit
Case Studies in Practitioner Adoption,
Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, Canada, 6/03
Emerging Technologies
and Healthcare Innovations Congress
Clinical ROI: Lessons from Health Care’s Most Wired,
Washington, DC, 6/02
First Physicians Care
Provider Profiling, Changing Physician Behavior and
Fundamentals of Continuous Quality Improvement, Atlanta, GA, 6/96
Florida Medical Directors Association
Physician Profiling and Informatics, Orlando, FL, 10/96
Global Business Research
Provider Profiling Part I: Tools and Strategies, Philadelphia,
PA, 5/95
What Do Employers and Other Provider Report Cards: Fire the Outliers?, San Diego, 1/95
Payers Do To Influence/Encourage the Use of Generics, Orlando, FL, 12/94
GMIS, Inc. Annual Users Group Meeting
UM for the Year 2000, St. Petersburg, FL, 5/95
Health
Information and Management Systems Society
Workflow Enhancement – The
Environment, Orlando, FL, 2/04
Quality Initiatives: Using Clinical IT to Directly Impact Care, Orlando, FL,
2/04
Workflow Enhancement – The Environment, Chicago, IL, 6/03
Patient Safety: Modifying Processes to Eliminate Errors, Atlanta, GA, 1/02, Las
Vegas, NV, 6/02
Clinical ROI: Lessons From Health Care’s Most Wired, San Diego, CA, 2/03.
Healthcare
Financial Management Association
Evidence Based Clinical Cost
Reduction Strategies, Seattle, WA, 6/02
HP World
Health Symposium
Clinical Infrastructure Driving
Clinical Transformation, Las Vegas, NV, 9/05
Informatics Institute
Informatics for Profiling Physicians, Falls Church, VA,
Bethesda, MD, 1996 to 1997
International Business Communications
Guidelines and Profiling: Developing and Using the Tools, Chicago, IL, 11/94
International Institute for Research
The Araxsys Solution and Healthcare Workflow, Toronto,
Canada, 10/96
Guidelines, Outcomes and Profiling: Now What Do We Do?, New Orleans, LA, 5/94
Using Technology to Effectively Collect and Utilize Data - An Integrated
Approach, Washington, DC, 3/94
International Society for Quality in Health Care
The Core Body of Knowledge, Jerusalem, Israel, 5/96
Iowa Farm Bureau
Practice Guidelines and Quality Assurance, Des Moines, IA,
9/92
Joint Commission on Accreditation for Quality in Healthcare Organizations
Quality Initiatives: Using Clinical IT to Directly Impact
Care, Alexandria, VA, 11/04
Louisiana Managed Healthcare Association
Linking Informatics and Medical Management, Kenner, LA,
9/98
McKesson Corporation
Patient Safety: Attitudes and Challenges Facing Patients,
Physicians and their Providers, Amherst Product Group Users Conference,
Orlando, FL, 6/03
Disease Management: Using IT to Deliver the Goods, Washington, Payor Solutions Group Users Conference, DC, 4/98
Medicaid Managed Care
Evaluating Appropriateness of Care, Scottsdale, AZ, New
York, NY, Seattle, WA, 4/95 to 7/95
Medical Case Management Conference
Improving Process Quality: Applying Workflow Automation to
Patient Care Plans, Nashville, TN, 9/97
Medical College of Wisconsin Evolving Healthcare
Technology Conference
Error Reduction Thru Medical
Technology, Milwaukee, WI, 11/03.
Medical Records Institute
Using Clinical Decision Support
to Influence Outcomes, San Antonio, TX, 5/03
Lessons from Health Care’s Most Wired, San Antonio, TX, 5/03
Using Handheld Devices to Obtain Physician Adoption of
Information Technology , Mobile Health Care 2002, Las Vegas, NV, 10/02
Enhancing Patient Safety: CPOE and
Clinical Decision Support, TEPR 2002, Seattle, WA 5/02
Healthcare Internet Portals: Benefiting from the Easy Exchange of Information,
TEPR 2001, Boston, MA 5/01
National Association of Managed Care Physicians
Data to Information, Managed Care University, Dallas, TX,
6/95
Informatics Track Chairperson, Spring Forum, Palm Springs, CA, 5/95
How Physicians Play a Part in the Informatics World, Palm Springs, CA, 5/95
Informatics Track Chairperson, Fall Forum, Phoenix, AZ, 9/94
Medical Delivery: Information Superhighway, Phoenix, AZ, 9/94
Guidelines, Outcomes and Profiling: What Will It Do?, New Orleans, LA, 5/94
Clinical Practice Guidelines, Tampa, FL, 4/93
National Managed Health Care Congress
Lesson from Health Care’s Most Wired, Washington, DC, 3/03
Clinical ROI: Lessons from Health Care’s Most Wired, Baltimore, MD, 4/02
Disease Management, Washington, DC, 4/00
Connect the Docs: Put Internet and World Wide Web Technologies to Work for
You!, Atlanta, GA, 4/98
Moderator, Physicians Track, Washington, DC, 4/97
Provider Profiling, Washington, DC, 4/96
Innovative Training Programs for Physicians in Managed Care, New York, NY,
11/95
National Managed Home Health Care Congress
Outcomes Measures and Reporting, Nashville, TN, 6/97
Pharmaceutical Advertising Council, Inc.
Ramifications of Standards of Practice in the Managed Care
Environment: Fire All the Outliers?, New York, NY, 3/94
Quality Colloquium at Harvard University
Colloquium Co-Chair, Cambridge, MA, 2004 to 2007, 2009
Reflections on Technology and Quality: Round Healthcare in a Flat World,
Cambridge, MA, 8/06
Patient Safety Workforce Training, Cambridge, MA, 8/04
Using Point-of-Care Information Technology Tools to Reduce Medication Errors,
Cambridge, MA, 8/03
Quality Insights of Pennsylvania – Medicare Advantage
Health Plan Summit
Using Predictive Modeling to Target Interventions,
Harrisburg, PA, 10/04
Rush Presbyterian Medical Center / Ars Medica
Capitation, Contract Negotiation and Managed Care, Los
Angeles, CA 4/95
Self-Insurance Institute of America
Physicians and Managed Care, San Antonio, TX, 8/95
The Application of Outcomes Measurement in Managed
Care, Chicago, IL, 10/94
The Evolution of Managed Care: Guidelines and Care Management, Boston, MA,
10/93
Senate Finance Committee, Subcommittee for Health for Families and the
Uninsured
Testimony on health care quality improvement and new
information technologies, Washington, DC, 4/94
Swiss Institute for Public Health, Switzerland
Managed Care: Opportunities for Quality Improvement?
Lausanne, Switzerland, 1/96
Design and Implementation of Practice Guidelines, Lausanne, Switzerland, 4/93
The Center for Business Innovation
Business Intelligence &
Analytics: Unleashing Data to Drive Quality & Financial Performance,
Co-chair, Boston, MA, 05/07
The IPA Association of America
Care Management: An Integrated
Approach for Managing Risk, Las Vegas, NV, 3/00
Vanguard Health System
Driving Patient Safety, Las
Vegas, NV, 8/03
Washington County Hospital Association
Internet and World Wide Web
Technologies for Physicians, Hagerstown, MD, 5/99
Wharton Health Care Management Alumni Association,
Technology: How Providers and Purchasers Gauge Quality, Philadelphia, PA, 10/02
WEDI National Conference
Market Forces Driving Patient Safety, Washington, DC, 5/03
World Research Group
Optimizing the Role of the Physician Advisor, Las Vegas,
NV, 3/08
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