Advisors
- Arlene Anschel
- Marion J. Ball, Ed.D
- Bruce Berg, MD, MBA
- Virginia Davis, Ed.D, RN, CPHQ
- James Feldbaum, MD
- Gary Flashner, MD
- Jonathan Gold, MD MHA MSc
- Kelly McLendon
- Paul C Mendelowitz, MD
- Blackford Middleton, MD, MPH, MSc
- Robert A Reid, MD
- Jonathan Teich, MD
- Melinda Yates Costin
- Lee Van Voris, MD
Click on advisors name for a brief overview of their experience and expertise as leaders in healthcare information technology.
Arlene Anschel
- Consultant, Information Technology Practice, Witt/Kieffer, the largest retained executive search firm dedicated to healthcare and higher education
- Recognized expert in IT physician recruitment
- Executive VP: Hersher Associates, a retained search firm dedicated to healthcare information technology
- Consultant to healthcare delivery systems, software vendors and consulting firms on the physician role in IS and informatics
- Nationally recognized advisor to information systems physicians
- Founder and Director of an insurance medical examining company
Marion J. Ball, Ed.D
- IBM Research / Fellow, Center for Healthcare Management
- Professor Emerita, Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing
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Affiliate Professor, Information Systems, University of Maryland
International innovator, educator, author, and leader with over twenty-five years of experience in the health care IT community
Bruce Berg, MD, MBA
- Chief Medical Information Officer and Patient Safety Officer, Sarasota Memorial Hospital
- Dean & Clinical Professor, Florida State University Regional Medical School;, Sarasota, FL
Virginia Davis, Ed.D, RN, CPHQ
- Director, Clinical Informatics, Catholic Health Care East
- Former Senior Consultant, ACS Healthcare Solutions
- Managing Consultant, Joint Commission International
- Director, Ambulatory Health Services, Liberty Healthcare Corporation
- Director, Multispecialty Satellites, University of Pennsylvania Health System
- VP Blue Cross Blue Shield of Delaware
- Consultant Surveyor & Quality Healthcare Resources Consultant, Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations
James Feldbaum, MD
- Consultant to hospitals, national consulting firms and industry on matters of physician adoption of technology.
- Author of numerous articles on the physician interface with technology
- Host of the Healthcare Informatics blog: M.D. meets IT.
Gary Flashner, MD
- Emergency Medicine Informatics
Consultant, Trigram Technology
- Medical Consultant, Lancet Technology
- Medical Directorships & Associate Medical
Directorships in Emergency Medicine
Jonathan Gold, MD MHA MSc
- Physician Analyst, McKesson Provider Technologies
- Regional Director of Medical Quality Assurance Unit and Risk Management, Maccabi Health Services, Israel
- National Library of Medicine Post-Doctoral Fellow in Medical Informatics, Johns Hopkins University
- Board-Certified pediatrician with 15 years hospital and ambulatory care experience
- Physician with a combination of training, experience, and expertise in medical informatics, medical quality assurance, and primary care practice
Kelly McLendon
- ARRA ,HITECH, HIPAA, Meaningful Use, Privacy and Security expertise
- Over 30 years of Medical Records expertise
- Legal Health Records
- Paper, Electronic and Hybrid medical record (HIM) operations
- HIM, EDM and EHR system selections, operational assessments, project management, system designs
Paul C Mendelowitz, MD
- Chief Medical Officer, Holy Name Hospital
- Director Clinical Information Systems, Holy Name Hospital
- Board certified internist, pulmonologist and intensivist
- President, NJ State Board of Medical Examiners
- Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine, Columbia University College of P&S
- Healthcare information technology evangelist
Blackford Middleton, MD, MPH, MSc
- Chairman, Center for IT Leadership
- Director, Clinical Informatics R&D, Partners Healthcare
- Professor, Harvard Medical School, and Harvard School of Public Health
- Experienced physician executive and innovator, EMR and PHR designer and architect, deep market experience
Robert A Reid, MD
- Board Certified Ob-Gyn with 25 years private practice experience
- Hospital Surveyor with the California Medical Association’s Institute for Medical Quality
- 15 years as Director of Medical Affairs for Cottage Health System, Santa Barbara, CA
- Past chair of Center for Medical Executives of the California Hospital Association
- Past president of the California Medical Association
- Physician with expertise in practice issues, medical staff governance and hospital-physician relationships.
Jonathan Teich, MD
- Chief Medical Informatics Officer, Elsevier
- Practicing Physician and Professor, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School
- Co-leader, HHS/AMIA Roadmap for National Action on Clinical Decision Support
- Developed some of the foremost examples of EHR/CPOE/CDS for quality improvement and error prevention; 20+ years in academia, provider, industry and policy sector
Melinda Yates Costin
- VP Application Services, Baylor Information Services, Baylor Healthcare Systems
- VP Clinical Solutions, Healthlink, Inc, Healthcare Practice IBM
- Adjunct Professor, John Hopkins School of Nursing
- Former CIO of two 500 bed hospitals
- Over 30 years of healthcare IT experience developing and implementing clinical systems across multiple vendors
Lee Van Voris, MD
- Sr. Managing Consultant, IBM Healthlink
- Chief Medical Officer, St. Peter's Healthcare Services (Albany, NY)
- Sr. VP for Medical Affairs, Hamot Health System (Erie, PA)
- Clinical Professor of Medicine and Dean, MCP Hahnemann School of Medicine
Practicing Physician Infectious Diseases 1978 - 2001