Experience

GI Digital

• United States
• Hospitals and Health Care
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Chief Technology Officer

  • Jan 2021 - Present

  Development and maintenance of PEARL, the Tele-GI platform for capsule endoscopy. PEARL provides process flow management, including easy-to-use practice management and clinical data management and archival, all in a vendor agnostic environment. Development and maintenance of PEARL, the Tele-GI platform for capsule endoscopy. PEARL provides process flow management, including easy-to-use practice management and clinical data management and archival, all in a vendor agnostic environment.



Toku Technology

• Australia
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Founder-Owner

  • Jun 2013 - Present

  Development and maintenance of the Tele-Radiology platform Origin and expanding the foundation to other healthcare domains. Development and maintenance of the Tele-Radiology platform Origin and expanding the foundation to other healthcare domains.



Medaxis Corporation

• United States

• Director-Product Development

  • Mar 2006 - Jun 2013

  - Primary Lead and Project Manager for the successful development and implementation of the Referring Physician Web Portal feature utilizing Agile principles in our Scrum and RAD processes throughout the entire SDLC. This feature allows Physicians to electronically submit orders, track patient progress through the referred service and immediate access to diagnostic results.- Primary lead in developing a prototype for Clinical Data Visualization. This allows easy analysis of the captured data, and enables relationship correlation so that at a glance you can see how different events in the patient chart are related. The graphical elements can also serve as quick indexes to the underlying textual data so locating data in the patient chart is streamlined.- Primary lead/Project Manager for ONC-ATCB Certification. Successfully attained Comprehensive Ambulatory EHR certification for 360EHR with InfoGard. Effectively managed multiple teams with mixtures of FTE and contracted programmers in multiple locations. Laid out project plan goals and timelines based on HHS Meaningful Use Final Ruling and NIST Approved Test Procedures. All teams completed Core and Menu Set Measure tasks on time adhearing to project plan guidelines. Conducted the test day script execution with the Medaxis test team and the InfoGard proctor.- Product initiation and Project Manager for 360EHR. Responsible for the entire development life cycle including Requirements Gathering, Functional Specification documentation, Gantt chart tracking, User Manual creation, and product Release Notes. 360EHR is the primary care/specialty care Electronic Health Record.- Created and managed the Medaxis Customer Support Center. Response from engineers means issues can be resolved 90% of the time by initial contact node. Focus is on human contact and customer satisfaction. Show less

• Project Manager/Softwware Engineer

  • Feb 2001 - Mar 2006

  - Responsible for all major releases of the Medaxis’ clinical software suite. Working in small focused development units (‘scrums’), using abbreviated Agile ‘sprints’ allowed turnaround times of 1-4 weeks for maintenance releases. Major functional milestones include: in-house digital dictation integration, referring physician web portal (phase I), in-house billing module integration, implemented hooks for 3rd party PACS interface, flag alert implementation, auto-fax report distribution implementation.- Project management of 4 concurrent components of a multi-million dollar NIST grant. Strict monitoring of project milestone completion and adherence to program parameters required daily interaction with project leads, weekly reporting to corporate executives and quarterly review and sign-off by NIST grant review oversight committee. Final NIST grant project approval was signed off on time and within budget. A Distributed Information Architecture for Clinical Practice and Medical Research was composed of the following 4 subprojects: Data Gateway Server; Medical Information Anonymizer; Field-theory Natural Language Processor; Medical Data Visualization.- Successfully managed complete full development cycle for Individually Tailored Medicine version 1.0 (including Requirements Documentation, High-level Design Specification, Software Development, Integration, Testing/Quality Assurance, Implementation/Deployment and Customer Support Maintenance). Deployment was completed at a primary care clinic in Melbourne, Florida (9/2001); imaging center in Melbourne (6/2002); imaging center in Marion, Ohio (6/2002) Show less



UCLA Medical Center, Telemedicine Division

• Software engineer

  • Jun 1996 - Feb 2001

  - One of the initial developers of the practice management modules of Individually Tailored Medicine (ITM). Primary work involved participating in the patient scheduler implementation including developing automated search algorithms for optimizing open appointment location and patient web scheduling. - Developed a form interpreter application, Digital Ink (DINK), that utilized a pen-stroke recognizer engine. This application had two functions, one was the ability to define and store "readable" areas of a form. Secondly, interpret the penstrokes of a user writing in these "active" form areas. The result was the ability to capture structured data (machine readable) from common paper forms. - Assisted in the development of the Visual Structured Relevant Reporting (VSSR) application which takes voice input, processes it through a commercially available speech recognition engine, takes the text result and passes it to a natural language processor (developed by another ITM research group), and visualizes the structured data in a tabular and graphical presentation. - Participated in the initial presentations of a Patient Health Homepage, including a graphical summary presentation of the user's overall health status, links to their medical record, links to medical resources (including a pertinent positive/pertinent negative symptom assessor and a heart attack risk assessor). Show less



UCLA Medical Center, Radiological Sciences

• Manager, Radiology Information Systems

  • Aug 1988 - Feb 1996

  Implemented the first computerized Radiology Information System (RIS) at UCLA; Reduced diagnostic report turn-around times from an average of 2 weeks to 1.5 days. Responsibilities included online support, daily operations and maintenance for a department of over 150 users, program minor modification add-ons, implement new interfaces to other departments in the UCLA Medical Center Enterprise. Successfully implementated the UCLA Radiology Information System (RIS) including requirements specification, communication between University department staff, physicians, administrators and the third party vendor, network and data infrastructure, hardware and software installation, integration with the UCLA Medical Center enterprise and user training. Show less