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Publications

  • Chapters 10 and 20 in "Risk Management, Liability Insurance, and Asset Protection Strategies for Doctors and Advisors: Best Practices from Leading Consultants and Certified Medical Planners"

    CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group

    I wrote Chapter 10 "Understanding Medical Practice Cybersecurity Risks: Mitigations for the Digital Health Era" and Chapter 20 "How to Conduct a Health-Care Environment Electronic Risk Assessment: Mitigations for the Digital Health Era" in this compilation of content which explains to physicians and insurance professionals the background, theory, and practicalities of medical risk management, asset protection methods, and insurance planning.

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  • TYING IT ALL TOGETHER TO DELIVER IMPROVED POPULATION HEALTH

    Purpose Event

    To achieve system wide integration that enables population health management and realize the full potential of value based care coordinated and effective clinician communication is essential. In this session experts discuss how to:

    Identify the gaps and create linkages between disparate systems
    Bridge the care gap and provide real time collaboration that connects providers and real-time patient information
    Use technologies that support connectivity and communication between…

    To achieve system wide integration that enables population health management and realize the full potential of value based care coordinated and effective clinician communication is essential. In this session experts discuss how to:

    Identify the gaps and create linkages between disparate systems
    Bridge the care gap and provide real time collaboration that connects providers and real-time patient information
    Use technologies that support connectivity and communication between providers to enable value-based care

    Other authors
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  • Prepare your practice for an EMR

    Journal of Surgical Radiology

    I prepared a basic checklist to help physicians prepare for the purchase of a large, expensive, electronic health records solution.

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  • Easing Into Healthcare Automation

    Healthcare Technology Online HIMSS 2011 Special Publication

    Most healthcare providers shouldn't jump into complex systems like EHRs without a ton of preparation. This piece, which is wrote for HTO's special HIMSS 2011 print version, advises non-technical clinical and medical personnel to ease into technology so it doesn't harm their patients.

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  • Chapter 13 "Interoperable EMRs - On Being the CIO of Your Practice" in "The Business of Medical Practice: Transformational Health 2.0 Skills for Doctors, Third Edition"

    Springer Publishing Company, New York

    I wrote Chapter 13 (pages 299 through 335) of the 3rd Edition of the book entitled 'The Business of Medical Practice: Transformational Health 2.0 Skills for Doctors'. My chapter deals with how medical and clinical specialists should make healthcare technology decisions, how to choose consultants, focus on the right areas of their practice to automate, how best to collaborate with patients online, preparing for mHealth, and how to demo and buy electronic health records solutions.

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  • Social Networking for Physicians

    Journal of Surgical Radiology

    This columns is about how physicians can increase their personal credibility and establish a personal brand by using social networking tools and techniques.

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  • Develop lightweight ancillary tools connected to electronic health records systems

    IBM developerWorks

    The 2009 stimulus bill's HITECH Act offers money to physicians, hospitals, and multi-hospital systems if they become "meaningful users" of certified electronic health records (EHR) systems. In order to meet meaningful use rules for EHR systems, you will need to create your own architecture to support lightweight applications. This article describes how to add meaningful use and other business requirements as lightweight ancillary tools connected to your EHR system without adding risk to your…

    The 2009 stimulus bill's HITECH Act offers money to physicians, hospitals, and multi-hospital systems if they become "meaningful users" of certified electronic health records (EHR) systems. In order to meet meaningful use rules for EHR systems, you will need to create your own architecture to support lightweight applications. This article describes how to add meaningful use and other business requirements as lightweight ancillary tools connected to your EHR system without adding risk to your existing environment.

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  • How To Obtain Quality IT Help

    Journal of Surgical Radiology

    Getting quality help from IT consultants is not easy -- this column describes how to make sure you're doing the right things when asking for help.

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  • Why MDs Dread EMRs

    Journal of Surgical Radiology

    A column on why physicians haven't embraced electronic health records solutions even after decades of implementations.

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  • AMA Interview: Easing into technology: Alternatives to a full EMR

    AMA Medical News

    AMA's "American Medical News" magazine interviewed me for their piece on EMRs. I suggested that even if a full-fledged system is financially out of reach for your practice, there are ways to "ease into" automation.

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Patents

  • Computer system for performing reusable software application development from a set of declarative executable specifications

    Issued US 7039898

    In May 2006 I was awarded this patent for reusable software. It describes a method I invented for performing architecture, design, and implementation of sophisticated business software using a specifications language.

  • System and Method for Providing Clinical Views or Recommendations

    Filed US 20130297323

    Physician-based engine for clinical recommendations.

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  • System and method for managing devices and data in a medical environment

    Filed US US20130204145

    A system and method for facilitating coordinated functioning of medical devices over a network. The system includes a communication circuit to receive an input indicative of an action to be performed by a first medical device from a processing unit coupled to a social health record data bank. The communication circuit is configured to send an instruction to the first medical device to initiate the action by the first medical device in association with information of a patient associated with…

    A system and method for facilitating coordinated functioning of medical devices over a network. The system includes a communication circuit to receive an input indicative of an action to be performed by a first medical device from a processing unit coupled to a social health record data bank. The communication circuit is configured to send an instruction to the first medical device to initiate the action by the first medical device in association with information of a patient associated with the first medical device stored in and retrieved from the social health record data bank. The system further includes a control circuit configured to monitor the action performed by the first medical device and instruct the first medical device to pause performing the action for a defined period of time based on an instruction from the processing unit indicative of an action to be performed by a second medical device.

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  • Social Authentication for Accessing Health Records

    Filed US US20130204641

    A system for facilitating access to a Social Heath Record Database (SHRDB) through a social networking platform over a communications network. The system includes an information management platform including one or more database server and one or more social network server configured to implement information storage and retrieval functions within the SHRDB. The system further includes the SHRDB communicatively coupled to the information management platform. The system further includes a social…

    A system for facilitating access to a Social Heath Record Database (SHRDB) through a social networking platform over a communications network. The system includes an information management platform including one or more database server and one or more social network server configured to implement information storage and retrieval functions within the SHRDB. The system further includes the SHRDB communicatively coupled to the information management platform. The system further includes a social networking engine communicatively coupled to the SHRDB through the social network server to allow interfacing of the SHRDB with the social networking service/platform. The system further includes a programmatic web interface configured as a single sign-on scheme to allow access of one or more repositories of the SHRDB.

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  • Social health care record system and method

    Filed US US20130197939

    A system for facilitating multi-faceted communication over a network. The system includes a plurality of healthcare related entities connected with a communications network. Each of the plurality of healthcare related entities serve as a source of medical records. The system includes a social health care record data bank (SHRDB) accessible by each of the plurality of entities based on rules and preferences of the entities upon authorization by the SHRDB. The SHRDB includes a processing…

    A system for facilitating multi-faceted communication over a network. The system includes a plurality of healthcare related entities connected with a communications network. Each of the plurality of healthcare related entities serve as a source of medical records. The system includes a social health care record data bank (SHRDB) accessible by each of the plurality of entities based on rules and preferences of the entities upon authorization by the SHRDB. The SHRDB includes a processing component capable of executing stored instructions to process the medical records of the entities over the communications network. The SHRDB further includes a repository to store the medical records of the plurality of entities. The system includes a multi-faceted social health care component communicatively coupled to the SHRDB and adapted to be accessible by each of the plurality of entities.

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  • Consumer Self-authorization for Electronic Records

    Filed US 13/607,997

  • System and Method for Collaborative Patient Engagement

    Filed US 20130304508

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  • System and method for creating metadata-based natural language processing capabilities

    Filed US 13/457,782

    A system and method for managing data in a healthcare environment can include a content based router, and a healthcare record bank. The content based router can be configured to collect the data from a clinical data provider and convert the data in a format in accordance with a defined standard. The healthcare record bank can include or be coupled to a data repository. The healthcare record bank can be configured to be coupled to the clinical data provider through the content based router over…

    A system and method for managing data in a healthcare environment can include a content based router, and a healthcare record bank. The content based router can be configured to collect the data from a clinical data provider and convert the data in a format in accordance with a defined standard. The healthcare record bank can include or be coupled to a data repository. The healthcare record bank can be configured to be coupled to the clinical data provider through the content based router over a communication network. The healthcare record bank can be configured to store the data received from the clinical data provider and can be accessible or searchable from within or outside the healthcare record bank. The healthcare record bank can be coupled to or include a data logging unit configured to maintain metadata associated with the clinical data and configured to facilitate natural language processing capabilities.

Projects

  • Spry Programmable Markdown (https://sprymd.org)

    - Present

    I am the creator of Spry, a lightweight TypeScript ecosystem that turns Markdown into a programmable medium. With Spry, every fenced code block, section, and directive in a Markdown file can execute tasks, compose workflows, and produce reproducible outputs, so documentation becomes active code. The system supports multi-language execution, dependency orchestration, audit-ready evidence capture, and integration with data, DevOps, AI, and BI use cases. Spry lets teams build reproducible data…

    I am the creator of Spry, a lightweight TypeScript ecosystem that turns Markdown into a programmable medium. With Spry, every fenced code block, section, and directive in a Markdown file can execute tasks, compose workflows, and produce reproducible outputs, so documentation becomes active code. The system supports multi-language execution, dependency orchestration, audit-ready evidence capture, and integration with data, DevOps, AI, and BI use cases. Spry lets teams build reproducible data pipelines, executable runbooks, database-driven applications, and audit-ready reports all from a single, human-readable source of truth.

  • HealthIMPACT Forum

    The ultimate "No BS" Digital Health Conference series.

    Other creators
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  • Digital Health & Medical Device Equity Research

    - Present

    Consult with companies such as FBR, Lazard Capital Markets, and DeMatteo Monness to help them help their clients better understand the complex world of health IT and medical device technology that aids their investment decision making process.

  • The Healthcare IT Guy Blog

    I've been blogging about healthcare technology, solutions, and policy issues for many years.

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  • BFELoB MAX Federal Community Architect

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    Serve as Consulting Chief Architect (Contractor) of this Federal Government collaboration system.

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  • Global Genomics Group CTO

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    Enterprise IT strategy, bioinformatics strategy, and information management implementation for this research-oriented, discovery-based, life sciences company. Responsible for data storage, data movement, bioinformatics and digital chemistry analysis pipelines, and data security.

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  • Poliwogg CTO

    -

    Served as fractional CTO during formation of Poliwogg's initial technology platforms and products.

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  • Advisor, NIH/TATRC Commercialization Assistance Program run by Larta

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    I helped advise over a dozen NIH and TATRC selected companies that were enrolled in the Commercialization Assistance Program (CAP). The program is administered by Larta on behalf of National Institutes of Health (NIH) and other government agencies.

  • Cardinal Health Clinical Technologies & Services (CTS) CTO

    -

    Served at Chief Technology Officer (CTO) reporting to CTS Business Unit CEO; led technology strategy and hardware as well as software engineering teams for all medical devices/solutions including Alaris, Pyxis, and other product lines.

  • American Red Cross National Biomedical Computer System (NBCS) Architect

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    Served as Consulting Chief Architect (Contractor) for Red Cross's MACS NBCS -- a large enterprise system that helps manage the nation's blood supply and regulated as a Class 3 medical device by the FDA.

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  • English

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  • Urdu

    Native or bilingual proficiency

  • Arabic

    Elementary proficiency

  • Hindi

    Limited working proficiency

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