physician adoption
The Thoughtflow® Company

Senior Leadership Team

Dr. Sam Bierstock - Informatics and Physician Adoption
Sam Bierstock, MD, BSEE
President & Founder

Dr. Stephanie Massengill - Experience in management of Healthcare IT
Stephanie Massengill
Chief Administrative Principal
Background Background
  • Chief Medical Officer, IBM
  • Chief Medical Officer, Healthlink, Inc
  • VP Medical Affairs, Eclipsys Corp
  • President, Computer Consultants for Professionals, Inc
  • Founder & Principal, The Millenial Group - Healthcare Thinktank & Strategies Services
Practicing Physician and Surgeon 1977-1992 (Internal Medicine & Ophthalmology
  • Founder & Chief Strategy Officer, Healthvision, Inc
  • McDonnell Douglas Health Information Systems Co, Director of Marketing and Corporate Planning for Systems Architecture, and Director of Product Marketing and Manager of Client Support Services
More than 30 years professional and senior management experience in healthcare IT

Consultants


Bruce Berg, MD, MBA

Gary Flashner, MD

Lee Van Voris, MD
Background Background Background
  • Chief Medical Information Officer and Patient Safety Officer, Sarasota Memorial Hospital
  • Dean & Clinical Professor, Florida State University Regional Medical School;, Sarasota, FL
Private Practice Internal Medicine, Pulmonary and Critical Care
Medicine 1972 - 2005
  • Emergency Medicine Informatics
    Consultant, Trigram Technology
  • Medical Consultant, Lancet Technology
  • Medical Directorships & Associate Medical
    Directorships in Emergency Medicine
Emergency Medicine 1983 - 2003
  • 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

James Feldbaum, MD
Dr. Michael J McCoy - Informatics and Clinician Adoption
Michael J. McCoy, MD
Principal
Dr. Michael J McCoy - Informatics and Clinician Adoption
Jonathan Gold, MD MHA MSc
Principal
Background Background Background
  • 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.
Board Certified in Internal Medicine
  • Exec VP and Chief Medical Officer, digiChart, Inc
  • Senior Consultant / Exec Director ACS Healthcare Solutions
  • VP & Medical Director, Eclipsys Corp
  • Chief Medical Information Officer, Promina Gwinnett Hospital System
Practicing Physician and Surgeon 1981-2002
(Obstetrics and Gynecology)
  • 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

Advisors


Marion J. Ball, Ed.D

Melinda Yates Costin

Blackford Middleton, MD, MPH, MSc

Jonathan Teich, MD
Background Background Background Background
  • IBM Research / Fellow, Center for Healthcare Management
  • Professor Emerita, Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

Virginia Davis, Ed.D, RN, CPHQ

Arlene Anschel

Carol Romej, Esq

Kelly McLendon
Background Background Background Background
  • 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
  • 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
  • Electronic Records and Discovery Group
  • General Counsel for two major technology companies

    Specializing in Records Management and Electronic Discovery, Onlince Protection of Clinical Data and other issues essential to electronic records
  • 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

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