Over the past 15 years Chaiken
provided expertise in quality and patient safety to provider organizations
helping them utilize information technology to improve clinical and
administrative activities. He has served as guest lecturer and consultant on
topics including patient safety, clinician adoption of information technology,
quality improvement and managed care. Chaiken also assisted hospitals and
technology firms in the creation of medical software products and authoring of
marketing communication materials.
Chaiken is board certified in
General Preventive Medicine and Public Health as well as Health Care Quality
Management. He is currently Chief Medical Officer at DocsNetwork, Ltd., where
he provides thought leadership, assists in business development and offers
clients his expertise in clinical transformation and quality improvement.
Chaiken has delivered more than 50 CME lectures, and is currently on the
editorial board of the Journal of Patient
Safety and the journal of Patient
Safety and Quality Healthcare. He currently writes a column on quality and
technology for the journal of Patient
Safety and Quality Healthcare.
Chaiken received his medical degree from
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2008 to
present |
DocsNetwork,
Ltd. (EIS Inc.), Boston, MA ·
Co-produced
four profitable healthcare IT conferences with each attracting over 150
C-suite level attendees. ·
Provides
business development support as part-time Chief Medical Officer to a
non-profit patient safety certification organization (ABQAURP). ·
Reorganized
and redirected educational programs in quality improvement and patient safety
for medical professional society (ABQAURP). ·
Principal
investigator for several $50,000 Phase I Small
Business Innovation Research grants from the National Institutes of Health. ·
Managed
$600,000 development project for software to be used for accreditation of
physician internal medicine training programs. |
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2005 -
2008 |
BearingPoint,
Inc., Boston, MA ·
Author
bi-monthly column on quality and healthcare information technology for
industry publication. ·
Deliver
thought leadership on clinical information technology issues. ·
Frequent
spokesman for healthcare practice on patient safety and information technology.
·
Led
content team building quality and patient safety website targeted at hospital
CEOs. ·
Key member
of clinical transformation team. |
|
1997 -
2003 |
McKesson
Corporation, Boston, MA ·
Provided
clinical marketing support to enterprise information tools. ·
Frequent
spokesman for company on patient safety and information technology. ·
Developed
relationships with national and international health care organizations. ·
Authored marketing
collaterals for clinically based software products and consulting. ·
Led
clinical sales and marketing efforts for IT managed care products. ·
Incorporated
physician led client association. ·
Provided
clinical liaison support for this organization’s provider profiling, case
management, and claims review information technology tools. |
|
1996 -
1997 |
Confer
Software (Araxsys, Inc.), ·
Contributed
to product development through feature / function documentation and
integration review. ·
Authored
concept articles on clinical workflow tools. ·
Participated
in public relations campaign to enhance product and corporate visibility. ·
Assisted
in strategic planning for rapidly growing company. ·
Facilitated
sales process and client support services through clinical input. |
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1993 -
1995 |
GMIS,
Inc., Boston, MA ·
Introduced
provider profiling and appropriateness tools to health care payor clients. ·
Established
public relations campaign to enhance product and corporate visibility. ·
Researched
and defined market for appropriateness protocols. ·
Forged
relationships with respected medical organizations. |
|
1992-1993 |
Health
Risk Management, Inc., Minneapolis, MN ·
Constructed
external expert panels for practice guideline development. ·
Edited
position papers on practice guidelines for utilization management physicians. |
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1986-1988 |
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1985 |
New Jersey
State Department of Health, |
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1984 |
Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention, |
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1982 |
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1981 |
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1981 |
Harvard |
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1977 |
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Furniture building, marathoning, hiking, biking, theater, ballet and baseball.
The Potential of Health Information Technology to Reduce Errors and Reduce
Premiums,
Agency for
the Development and Evaluation of Medicine
Design and
Implementation of Practice Guidelines,
AIC
Worldwide
Utilizing
Episode Based Provider Profiling to Target Medical Management,
Using Computer and Web Technology in Education and Proficiency Testing,
Integrating CME/CE in Decision Support and Point-of-Care Systems,
American
Association of Health Plans
Aligning
Technology Strategies with Business Goals,
American
Board of Quality Assurance and Utilization Physicians
Achieving
ROI Through Quality Initiatives: Six Sigma, Workflow and Clinical IT, Orlando,
FL, 11/03
Disease Management and Medical
Error: How Managing the Disease May Reduce the Risk, Orlando, FL, 10/02
Program Director, The Health Care Information Highway, Chicago, IL, 7/95
Program Director, Quality Health Care for an Aging America, Orlando, FL, 3/95
Program Co-Chairman, Clinical Practice Guidelines, Orlando, FL, 3/93, Phoenix,
AZ 5/94
Managed Care: Added Risks?, Philadelphia, PA, 10/97
Mining the Internet: Capturing Information On-line, Philadelphia, PA 10/97
Putting it Together: Linking Structure, Process and Outcomes and QA/UR/RM
Activities, Atlanta, GA, 6/97
NCQA Standards for Physicians Organization Certification Programs, Atlanta, GA,
6/97
QI/UM Informatics: Outcomes, Profiling, Internet, Mesa, AZ, 3/97
Alternative Care Delivery, San Francisco, CA, 9/96
Physician Profiling and Changing Physician Behavior, Dallas, TX, 6/96
Physician / Provider Profiling, Dallas, TX, 9/95
Monitoring Physician Quality: State and Private Sector Initiatives, Orlando,
FL, 3/95
Profiling Providers, Orlando, FL, 7/94
QA/UR Through Computer Literacy, Orlando, FL, 7/94
American
Board of Quality Assurance and Utilization Physicians - Core Body of Knowledge
Course
Profiling,
Outcomes and Informatics, 1997 to present
Health Care Delivery Systems and Managed Care, 1997 to present
Managed Care, 1994 to 1996
Health Care Delivery Systems, 1993 to 1996
Peer Review Organizations (PROs): An Overview, 1995 to 1996
Economic Credentialing and Provider Profiling: Implications for Practitioners,
1995
The HCFA Initiatives, 1995
Health Care Systems and Popular Organizational Models, 1994
Considerations on Quality in Major Health Care Reform Proposals, 1994
Resource Based Relative Value Scales, 1993
Statistics, Epidemiology and Computers in Quality Assurance, 1992 to 1993
Patient Safety: Taking Steps Forward,
American
Provider
Profiling,
Clinical Profiles: Cornerstone on Managed Care,