DENVER, CO (PRWEB) January 24, 2006 -- RMD Networks, Inc., a leading ASP-based collaborative healthcare connectivity company today announced the formation of an e-healthcare advisory board comprised of distinguished healthcare industry leaders. The mission of the six-member e-healthcare advisory board is to provide RMD Networks? executive management team with strategic direction and insight into industry-specific issues of immediate concern to hospitals and health systems that will drive e-healthcare initiatives for improved healthcare delivery throughout the United States.
?This outstanding team of healthcare leaders is committed to RMD Networks? continued success and will provide critical industry perspective as we move forward developing highly-functional collaborative care communications platforms that connect physician practices with patients and each other and with other healthcare service providers,? says Steve Adams, president and founder of RMD Networks. ?The e-healthcare advisory board will play an important role as we continue to meet the demands of the healthcare industry today ? and in the future ? by enabling physicians to connect and collaborate more efficiently to provide a higher-quality of care to patients, while lowering overall healthcare costs.?
The charter members of RMD Network?s e-healthcare advisory board include:
Richard S. Bakalar, M.D., is the chief medical officer in the Information Based Medicine Emerging Business Opportunities Unit of IBM Corporation?s Healthcare and Life Sciences Industry Team. Dr. Bakalar joined the IBM Healthcare and Life Sciences team after 26 years of service in the U.S. Navy Medical Corps. He has extensive experience in clinical medicine, diagnostic imaging, military medical flight operations and applied information technology. He is board certified in both internal and nuclear medicine and served as the executive assistant to Navy Surgeon General for Global Telemedicine initiatives where he established the Naval Telemedicine Business Office to coordinate Navy-wide telehealth activities to design, budget, field and manage a Global Digital Teleradiology PACS network for 30 Navy ships, 23 shore-based medical facilities and three medical centers.
Dr. Bakalar is a subject matter expert to the National Research Council and has been a panelist who conducted annual independent assessments of NIST (Information Technology Laboratory ? Division Software Diagnostics and Conformance Testing).
Mark Blatt, M.D., is the director for Global Healthcare Strategies in the Digital Health Group at Intel Corporation. Dr. Blatt has played a key role in formulating Intel?s integrated digital hospital vision, which gained significant interest among Intel?s healthcare customers and industry thought leaders worldwide.
Prior to joining Intel, Dr. Blatt was the managing partner of a five-provider group of family practitioners. He practiced family medicine for 15 years before returning to Yale University to earn his MBA in finance. Dr. Blatt earned his medical doctorate at Albany Medical College of Union University and served two years as a commissioned officer in the U.S. Public Health Service. He is a member of the IEEE Medical Technology Policy Committee, the American Telemedicine Association and a diplomat of the American Board of Family Practice.
Michael Davis is the executive vice president at HIMSS Analytics in Chicago, Ill. Mr. Davis has 29 years of healthcare experience and prior to joining HIMSS Analytics, he held the position of managing vice president of Gartner?s Healthcare Research and Advisory Service. Mr. Davis has managed clinical departments in healthcare organizations and has held product management and director positions with Micromedex/Thomson, American Express Health Systems Group, First Data Corporation and Motorola.
Mr. Davis has published two books and over 150 research articles on computerizing healthcare information. He has extensive experience with the design, development, implementation and management of healthcare IT systems. Mr. Davis holds a graduate degree in clinical pathology from the University of Nebraska Medical Center and a MBA from Pfeiffer University.
John Glaser, Ph.D., is the vice president and chief information officer at Partners HealthCare System, Inc., based in Boston, Mass. Dr. Glaser was the founding chairman of College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) and is the past president of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS). He has been a member of the Board of the American Medical Informatics Association and is currently the chair of the eHealth Initiative Board.
Dr. Glaser has been awarded the John Gall award for healthcare CIO of the year and was a recipient of CIO Magazine?s 20/20 Vision Award. Dr. Glaser is on the editorial boards of CIO Magazine, Healthcare Informatics, Biotechnology Healthcare, Journal of Biomedical Informatics and Journal of Healthcare Information Management. He has published over 100 articles and four books on the strategic application of information technology in healthcare. He holds a Ph.D. in healthcare information systems from the University of Minnesota.
Bernard Harris, M.D., is the president and chief executive officer of Vesalius Ventures located in Houston, Texas. Dr. Harris worked at NASA for 10 years and is a veteran astronaut who has logged more than 438 hours and traveled over 7.2 million miles in space. On his second flight, Dr. Harris conducted the first telemedicine conference from space with the Mayo Clinic.
Dr. Harris holds a bachelor?s degree in science from the University of Houston, a master?s degree in medical science from the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, a master?s degree in business administration from the University of Houston and a doctorate from Texas Tech University School of Medicine. He completed a residency in internal medicine at the Mayo Clinic, earned a National Research Council Fellowship in Endocrinology at the NASA Ames Research Center and trained as a flight surgeon at the Aerospace School of Medicine, Brooks Air Force Base. He holds several faculty appointments including associate professor in internal medicine at the University of Texas Medical Branch and assistant professor at Baylor College of Medicine. In addition, he is author and co-author of numerous scientific publications.
John H. Sanders, M.D., serves as chair of the Vesalius Ventures Technology Advisory Board, president and chief executive officer of The Global Telemedicine Group and is an adjunct professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Dr. Sanders a founding board member of the American Telemedicine Association where he serves as president emeritus and chairman of their Distinguished Advisory Council. As a senior consultant to the NASA Communications Center, Dr. Sanders serves as a member of the Biological and Physical Research Advisory Committee, the scientific director of the NASA Medical Informatics and Technology Applications Commercial Space Center.
Dr. Sanders earned his medical degree from Harvard Medical School Magna Cum Laude. He did his residency training at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston where he became chief medical resident and did a research fellowship in immunology at the National Institute of Health. Following residency training, Dr. Sanders joined the University of Miami School of Medicine where he established the first division of general medicine at any academic medical center.
About RMD Networks
RMD Networks provides healthcare connectivity solutions that streamline communications and enable collaboration between communities of physicians and their service providers. RMD is expert at securely inter-connecting distributed practices and disparate systems by building Collaborative Care Solutions ?, working closely with customers, partners and the industry to ensure that they address critical communications needs, today and in the future.