Claus Hamann Md, Ms, Frcpc, Facp Email & Phone Number

Maine, United States

Rehabbing old fruit trees and raising new ones, after a career supporting older people toward optimal function despite limitations. A new world!

Maine, United States

Advise leadership on clinical and business strategies.

Boxborough Ma, Usa

Very excited to contribute to leadership of this company that features AI-powered, protocol- and health coach-driven self-management support for older adults with chronic conditions.

Greater Boston Area

Part-time home-care for Medicare Advantage members with chronic illness, keeping them at home as much as possible

Greater Boston Area

Greater Boston Area

Greater Boston Area

Brewer, Maine, Usa

Responsible for strategy, implementation and evaluation of care coordination and clinical performance improvement among the patients and populations served by the Beacon Health Accountable Care Organization.

Lake Almanor, Ca

Presenter at annual meetingProgram Committee member

Alberta, Canada

Developing message content and business opportunities for clinical decision support authoring and implementation

Greater Boston Area

Collaborative development of AMIA's practice exam questions for the American Board of Preventive Medicine Clinical Informatics board exam

Waltham, Ma

Provide clinical and informatics insight into product development

Springfield, Massachusetts Area

• Directed and medically supervised acute, complex and chronic care management in collaboration with Medical Directors and VP for Care Management, interacting with front-line clinicians in improving care and reducing costs • Led the ambulatory, hospitalist and skilled nursing facility services for older patients in Medicare Advantage and ACO contracts, reducing lengths of stay and preventing readmissions through medication management, timely palliative interventions, and achieving national quality targets• Guided the company’s clinical and informatics teams in developing a real-time, predictive patient risk, quality, safety and cost management and intervention platform.

Springfield, Massachusetts Area

Responsible for post-acute and transitional care program, client-facing utilization and quality improvement, and risk-adjustment software product development.

Washington, Dc

Coordinated ACO Learning Network activities for Accenture’s Health Transformation practice, leveraging population health management expertise for value-based payment initiatives at integrated care delivery clients

Boston, Ma

Principal, Health and Public Sector / Clinical ServicesFocused on clinical care optimization through health information technology and on health IT-enabled business development for value-based care transformation:• Led the clinical input into a provider and patient EHR development roadmap for a UK-based vendor, collaborating with the technology lead to deliver a valued, actionable strategic plan to the client• Directed validation of reimbursement model for the EHR incentive program (Meaningful Use Stage 1) at a large national integrated healthcare delivery system, providing clinical expertise and integrating team financial forecasting skills. Co-developed the national audit strategy for Meaningful Use Stage 2• Led clinical care pathway development, implementation and change enablement for a large, pre-EHR UK academic medical center client, engaging clinical specialty division leaders in enhancing efficiency of inpatient operations• Drove RFI and RFP responses into a successful contract with a leading North American academic medical center’s external referring physician relationship management program, connecting a CRM solution to a leading commercial EHR and incorporating clinical customer perspectives • Integrated key clinical subject matter expertise into business development responses for leading Asian academic medical centers in health IT transformation and strategy and for national EHR planning• Coordinated ACO Learning Network activities for company’s Health Transformation practice, leveraging bundled payment and continuum of care experience for value-based payment initiatives at integrated care delivery clients.

Warwick, Uk

Led the clinical input into a provider and patient EHR development roadmap for a UK-based vendor, collaborating with the technology lead to deliver a valued, actionable strategic plan

Boston, Ma Usa

Led large-scale and focused practice management initiatives quality incentives and in inpatient and outpatient EHR design, training and implementation to improve efficiency, quality and safety of patient care. As Chair of EHR user’s group, translated clinicians’ documentation needs to informatics leaders and staff and physicians’ workflow to IT engineers, using national benchmarks. Engaged physicians and other clinicians with IT professionals across enterprise. Received six Partners in Excellence awards for clinical IT activities. Led acute-care documentation planning for physicians, advocating for electronic health record integration across acute, rehabilitation, ambulatory, home and long-term care settings Led integration of application-centric diagnosis documentation (“problem list”) into enterprise-wide diagnosis repository, in preparation for Meaningful Use Stage 1 Led hospital’s outpatient response to CMS mandate for tamper-resistant prescribing, convening practice management and information technology (IT) leadership and successfully implementing low-cost solution Led successful initiative with Pharmacy Department to reduce conflicting electronic prescriptions, improving physician, practice support personnel, pharmacy and patient satisfaction Co-led policy development, application, design and hospital- and system-wide implementation and evaluation of successful inpatient and outpatient medication reconciliation

Boston, Ma Usa

Conducted active primary care, hospital and nursing home practice, and advance directive quality improvementFounded and directed ACGME geriatric fellowship program in a cross-continuum, medical home environmentCoordinated geriatrics education of over 300 trainees in internal medicine, obstetrics and gynecology, physical medicine and rehabilitation, advanced nursing practice and social work with interdisciplinary faculty

Wellesley, Ma Usa

Led multidisciplinary teams of medical informaticians, nurses, pharmacists, and programmers developing point-of-care geriatric decision support for electronic medical records and on EHR content and usability:  Chaired the geriatric medication-prescribing expert panel, leveraging terminologies to advance the knowledge base for EHR e-prescribing to reduce medication errors among older patients Co-authored research on ambulatory medication error detection and prevention, medication reconciliation, enhanced electronic medication prescribing, and EHR workflow and usability

West Roxbury, Ma Usa

Developed and led training for interdisciplinary teams of physicians, nurses, social workers, therapists and health professional trainees to improve care for frail older veterans.

Hartford, Ct Usa

Founded a hospital acute-care unit and led an interdisciplinary team of nurses, social workers and therapists focused on improving hospital outcomes of frail older patients, and co-developed the unit as a geriatric medicine fellowship training site for the University of Connecticut Travelers Center on Aging

Culver City, Ca Usa

Westwood, Ca Usa

Baltimore, Md Usa

Royal Victoria Hospital, Montreal, Qc, Canada

Health services research with Drs. Suzanne and Robert Fletcher at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Montreal, QC, Canada

Ms, Epidemiology

Md, Medicine

Activities and Societies: Medical Students' Society, External Vice-President Co-Chair, Osler Society

Ba, Biology