- Medical Informatics -
Bridge the gap between your products and the real-world business of healthcare – with expert advice
As you develop and implement leading-edge electronic systems or healthcare software, your product managers and software engineers will encounter myriad questions and assumptions. While they may understand the business of healthcare, they’ve never walked in the shoes of a doctor. Unfortunately, there’s often a gap between a product’s assumptions and healthcare’s realities.
Doctors’ blogs reveal the disconnect – and dissatisfaction – with new products
Doctors’ blogs resonate with distress and dissatisfaction with current software offerings. Too many healthcare products are cumbersome and slow, have challenging usability issues, and are inefficient for the end-user. The goal of making a complicated program seem simple to the busy clinician remains elusive.
Dr. Michael Staab bridges the gap with experience and expert advice
Offering a real understanding of healthcare environments and business needs, Dr. Michael Staab will help your company achieve your goal: Create a streamlined product that is easy to use, meets the needs of your target audience, and helps you gain a foothold to ensure success.
Dr. Staab brings significant business experience and perspective to the table. He appreciates that you’re creating a complex software or electronics product that will serve a critical need. And he’ll team with you to ensure your product meets its mark.
Get expert physician support to develop or improve your products
As an experienced provider, Dr. Staab understands patient care in office, clinic, hospital, and imaging environments; the flow of information throughout the care process; and how users prefer to receive information. Dr. Staab will bridge the gap for your marketing product managers and software developers. Together, they will see a clear picture based on realities, not assumptions.
Examples of Dr. Staab’s recent medical informatics experience
- Cardiology IT Core Team Member, Centura Health Cardiovascular Information Services – As the physician representative in a multidisciplinary team, Dr. Staab and the team were tasked with identifying and selecting a cardiac picture archiving and communication system (PACS). This system would be integrated into the Centura Health System’s 12 hospitals located throughout Colorado. Dr. Staab coordinated with the IT staff and medical administrators to identify and select a system to show and transmit cardiac images. The team members presented their findings to a committee of CEOs and IT executives. In this capacity, it was critical for Dr. Staab, and the team as a whole, to understand the business need and gain insight into the inner workings of the hospital system.
- Electronic Medical Records Physician Champion for a 19-physician cardiology practice – Dr. Staab and a team of clinical and IT professionals were charged with selecting and implementing an electronic medical records system for this cardiology practice. The team studied the office work flow and evaluated software options that would best support the work flow. As the physician champion, Dr. Staab worked closely with the implementation team in the initial roll-out of the software program.
- Clinical Advisory Board Member – Dr. Staab is an ongoing clinical advisor to a firm seeking to provide comprehensive business and technology consulting to the healthcare sector.
Need a medical expert with business insight? Contact Dr. Michael Staab.