 |
Description: Consulting on the use of speech recognition for medical
documentation.
Joe Weber
46 Hyslop Road, Brookline MA 02445 617-566-1066 Fax:
617-566-2500 joeweber@alum.mit.edu
Professional Experience
1996 - Present CEO
Narratek, Inc., Brookline MA
The company provides narrative technologies - dictation,
transcription, and speech recognition - for medical reporting, with a
particular focus on preparing for electronic medical records. Current
product offerings include: VoicePower, Smartype, WAVpedal, and
SpeechPower. VoicePower is DVI's industry-leading digital dictation
and voice information system. Smartype is Narratek's patented
speedtyping software, which reduces a medical transcriptionist's
keystrokes by 70% -- dramatically increasing both productivity and
accuracy. WAVpedal enables transcriptionists to use their PCs as a
transcription workstation. SpeechPower is DVI's speech recognition
software. The company also provides consulting services, primarily in
the area of clinical documentation. Serving concurrently as Exec.
V.P. of DVI, under a consulting agreement with Narratek. DVI is a
member of the Philips' group of companies. On the Board of Directors
of MTIA (Medical Transcription Industry Alliance). Website:
www.narratek.com
1995 - 1996 Senior Vice President, Marketing and Sales
PKC Corporation, Burlington VT
The company has developed and is marketing Larry Weed's
Problem-Knowledge Couplers, a knowledge-based clinical documentation
and decision support system. (Dr. Weed is the innovator and pioneer
of the problem-oriented medical record and SOAP notes.) The Couplers
provide for the documentation of consistent, relevant, and codified
inputs to a paper-based or computer-based patient record. A powerful
healthcare reengineering tool, Couplers are designed to improve
clinical decision making, make optimal utilization of all members of
the healthcare team (including the patient), and contribute
unparalleled data inputs for clinical practice research. The primary
markets are managed care organizations, large outpatient facilities,
and post-acute healthcare organizations. Responsible for all aspects
of making a market for this revolutionary and important product.
1982 - 1995 Vice President, Marketing & Sales
Sudbury Systems, Inc., Sudbury MA
The company specializes in medical reporting systems designed to be
components of a computer-based patient record (CPR). It manufactures
and markets the RTAS Digital Dictation and Medical Reporting System, a
computerized voice information system designed for healthcare
applications. RTAS users include many of the larger and more
prestigious hospitals. Personally sold systems to major healthcare
organizations, such as: Massachusetts General, Mayo Clinics (all 3),
Johns Hopkins, Cleveland Clinic, Brigham and Women's, MD Anderson,
Duke, and U.S. Air Force. Sudbury Systems also manufactures and
markets the OpenPACS Image Management System, a Picture Archive and
Communications System (PACS) for optical disk storage and management
of medical images. Responsibilities of this position encompassed:
overall marketing strategy, management of all direct and
representative sales, marketing communications, new product innovation
and design specification, and customer support. On the Board of
Directors.
1976 - 1982 Director of Consulting Services
Ames Color-File Corporation, Somerville MA
The company specializes in products and services for record
management. Responsible for all consulting provided to hospitals,
health centers, government agencies, and commercial organizations.
Directed major design and implementation projects in the areas of:
medical record management, development of problem-oriented record
systems, equipment and supply specification, staff training, and
guidance through early operation of newly designed systems.
Concurrently held the position of Director of Research and
Development.
1974 - 1976 Director of Healthcare Consulting
Urban Systems Research & Engineering, Cambridge, MA
The company performs contract research for federal government
agencies. Activities of this position were predominantly focused upon
health information systems, analytical methodologies for public and
mental health organizations, financing and reimbursement issues,
healthcare management systems, clinical decision support
methodologies, health planning and evaluation strategies, and
consultations to health facilities on improving the efficiency and
quality of care.
1972 - 1974 Associate Director for Ambulatory Care
Cook County Hospital, Chicago IL
Overall administrative responsibility for the Outpatient Dept.,
Emergency Room, Admissions Office, and for establishing relationships
with neighborhood health centers. Also coordinated and directed the
efforts of the hospital's clinical divisions in providing all phases
of ambulatory care, and instituted new systems for medical records,
appointments, triage, and management control.
1971 - 1972 Management Consultant
Bio-Dynamics, Inc., Cambridge, MA
Provided management consulting services to health centers and
hospitals. Also developed, implemented, and analyzed health and
management information systems, and integrated them with medical
record and cost control systems.
1969 - 1971 Health Systems Consultant
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge MA
Served as a consultant to the comprehensive health centers of the
Boston Model Cities Program. Responsible for development and
implementation of a problem-oriented record for the medical, mental
health, speech and hearing, and social service components of the
centers. Also developed all related operational procedures and
designed the Program's health information system.
1969 Statistician
Harvard Medical School, Cambridge MA
Worked as a consultant on an A.E.C. grant at the Activation Analysis
Laboratory of New England Deaconess Hospital to discover nuclear
activation techniques for diagnostic medicine and cancer research.
Responsible for study design and spectrum analysis.
1966 - 1968 Biostatistician
National Institutes of Health, Bethesda MD
Led a team in designing and monitoring a quality control system for a
twelve-hospital child development project for the National Institute
of Neurological Diseases and Stroke. Provided statistical
consultation and determined appropriate analytical methodologies for
the Institute's medical researchers in their efforts to correlate
perinatal variables with the physical and mental disorders of
childhood, with the goal of improving clinical decision making..
1964 - 1966 Statistical Analyst
Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn NY
Received an N.I.H. grant to evaluate an obstetrical and family
planning project coordinated at Kings County Hospital. Also counseled
women who were prescribed the earliest birth control pills.
Publications and Other Activities
Numerous conference presentations, workshops, panel/seminar
chairmanships, and articles published in professional journals (and in
INC. Magazine) focusing on: computer-based patient records, medical
reporting technologies, Internet transcription, using patient
information for clinical research, clinical decision support tools,
speech recognition, improving healthcare through clinical
documentation, the benefits of structured/codified clinical input and
patient-generated histories, healthcare industry benefits from the
Internet, radiology reporting, and PACS. Guest editor for the Winter
1997-98 HIMSS journal, focusing on CPRs that improve healthcare. Also
authored the book, On the Road to CPR: A preparatory guide for the
coming of the Computer-based Patient Record. Holder of 3 U.S.
patents. Member of the Computer-based Patient Record Institute
(CPRI), and on the Advisory Board for the Davies CPR Recognition
Symposium. Served as Subgroup Leader for CPRI's System Evaluation
Workgroup. Served as Chairman of the Radiology Reporting Special
Interest Group of the Society for Computer Applications in Radiology
(SCAR). On the Board of Directors of the Medical Transcription
Industry Alliance (MTIA).
Education
BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY
B.A. in Biology, 1964
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
School of Public Health and Administrative Medicine
M.S. in Biostatistics, 1966
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
Alfred P. Sloan School of Management
M.S. in Management, 1971
HARVARD UNIVERSITY
Selected courses in Health Services Administration and in Clinical
Psychology for Public Practice, concurrent with M.I.T. degree program,
1969-1971.
|
Update your profile
