Management
Eric Z. Silfen, M.D., M.S.H.A.
is a board-certified internist and Emergency
physician who serves as Chief Medical Officer.
His responsibilities include OMS™, and
OMS Tools™ content development and supervising
the outcome management division of the company.
As former Chief Medical Officer for HCA The
Healthcare Company’s Reston Hospital Center,
Dr. Silfen offers extensive experience in hospital
and health plan clinical affairs, disease and
care management programs, The Joint Commission and NCQA accreditation
and clinical quality/performance improvement.
Dr. Silfen is a nationally recognized consultant
in the implementation of information technologies
in the medical setting.
Louis Rossiter, Ph.D. is a
prominent health economist and founding member
of Chironet, LLC. He was Secretary for Health
and Human Resources for the Commonwealth of
Virginia. With extensive experience in the pharmaceutical
industry, Dr. Rossiter is nationally known in
outcomes research and health economics. Dr.
Rossiter brings the science of health economics
to the company, including extensive experience
leading national evaluations of the cost, quality
and outcomes of care for the Healthcare Financing
Organization (now the Centers for Medicare &
Medicaid Services) and numerous other organizations.
He has a new book from Health Administration
Press (2001) called Understanding Medicare Managed
Care.
Vlad Olchanski, Ph.D. has extensive
experience in applied systems analysis and the
design of medical decision support systems.
Formerly Chairman, Department of Medical Decision
Support Systems, Russian Academy of Sciences,
and Senior Technical Officer of the World Health
Organization, he developed the technology platform
for the confidential exchange of national healthcare
data. In 1992, through a contract with Social
Scientific Systems in Washington, D.C. Dr. Olchanski
participated in an NCI grant for assessment
of computerized disease prevention systems at
the Medical College of Virginia. The project
result, Healthtouch, was operated for several years
in North Carolina.
Viktor Bovbjerg, Ph.D. possesses
a solid background in multivariate statistics,
epidemiological methods, clinical epidemiology,
and epidemiological approaches to disease. Dr.
Bovbjerg's experience includes work as an investigator
on the Virginia Medicaid Quality Assessment
and Improvement project and involvement in the
Virginia Health Outcomes Partnership project
that assessed patient care and outcomes in Medicaid
managed care programs. Dr. Bovbjerg has considerable
training and experience in study design and
both parametric and non-parametric approaches
to data analysis. He is expert in employing
SAS, SPSS, S-plus and other statistical software
programs to manage and analyze data on both
PC and mainframe systems.
Jennifer Green, RHIT, specializes
in medical records and quality improvement.
She has developed the methods of data collection
in the clinical site and national accreditation.
Ms. Green holds a degree in Health Information
Management and has a strong background in the
quality improvement and performance measurement
fields. Her past positions include work as Director
of Medical Records (Health Information Management),
Director of Quality Assurance, Director of Infection
Control, Director of Utilization Management,
Director of Physician Services.
Stephen Zimberg, M.D., MSHA,
board certified in obstetrics and gynecology
and is a founding member of Chironet. He has
over 18 years of clinical experience in a large
multi-specialty group practice, especially with
multiple surgery center sites. Dr. Zimberg actively
participates in basic and clinical research
at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation–Florida
and enjoys the position of principle or sub-investigator
on numerous studies for major pharmaceutical
and medical device companies, both domestic
and foreign. He has worked with the development
and implementation team of one of the top US
pharmaceutical and device firms on a significant
pain management project that included basic
research, outcomes tracking and marketing support
for the national and international sales forces
of over 500 personnel. |