Richard Bakalar, M.D. Email & Phone Number

Healthcare Consulting Services - Change agent for organizations adopting and scaling digital health, telemediciine and other innovative telehealth delivery models

Mclean, Virginia, Us

As ViTel Net's Chief Strategy Advisor , I work with our senior Leadership Team to continue our "Customer First" focus that optimizes resources to enhance our customer's Telehealth experience and enables them to achieve their measurable business and clinical objectives. In addition, I am seeking win-win, good fit alliance partners to jointly address our industry's Telehealth barriers to adoption and new business opportunities. ViTel Net's mission is to delivery next generation virtual care solutions today that positively impact triple aim healthcare challenges .

Past President, Member of the Board of Directors and Former Chairman of the ATA Standards and Guidelines Committee, member of ATA College of Fellows and member of the editorial board of the Telemedicine and eHealth journal since 2007.

Clear Health Quality Institute™ (CHQI) - a newly formed accreditation organization - promotes standards that incorporate the next generation of quality and outcome measures. CHQI will develop and offer an array of accreditation and certification programs, value-based purchasing standards and outcome measures. My role is to represent the American Telemedicine Association and the broader Telehealth provider community.

New York, Ny, Us

Harnessing technology to change the face of healthcare...A specialist in health information technology, Richard seeks to unlock the power of data within electronic health records and other systems in order to improve patient care. He has extensive clinical, operational and technical knowledge and experience, including ehealth, telehealth and telemedicine.

Redmond, Washington, Us

As Microsoft’s US-based Physician Executive, is responsible for provider communications in North America. Richard is a senior clinical advisor in Microsoft’s Health Solutions Group (HSG), which is developing and supporting new products and a partner ecosystem that enable consumers, providers, enterprises, and governments to improve health and wellness worldwide. HSG is focused on delivering innovative health information technology solutions to hospitals, health systems and communities built on its Amalga and HealthVault platforms, respectively. As a clinical member of the HSG Subject Matter Expert team Richard has contributed to impactful lead use case demonstrations scenarios for general and custom federal & commercial healthcare applications enhancing real-time inpatient quality measures analytics, chronic condition care coordination, medical surveillance, and care transitions with personalized care plans.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Dr. Bakalar, as senior medical domain consultant provides functional direction for next generation enterprise clinical healthcare information technology solutions in Medicine. Key projects include the strategy & change advisory services regarding regional and other large enterprise IT infrastructure transformation clustering of medical PACS archives, Medical Imaging Cloud Storage Archive business case, Project Blue Spruce (SWG) Cooperative Web; thought-leader and contributing author for whitepapers regarding Personal Health Records business models and standards; Telemedicine and Telehealth Portals; remote wireless health monitoring solutions and next generation 9 MP color display monitor applications. He is a thought leader at executive briefings, international meetings, professional conferences, IBM medical seminars and technical workshops.

Washington, Dc, Us

Special Assistant to the US Navy Surgeon General and Chief Information Officer for Global Telemedicine, Navy Representative to the DoD eHealth IPT Integrated Working Group on Telemedicine, Program Manager and Department Head, Naval Telemedicine Business Office (NTBO) Navy Director and Co-founder of Virtual Naval Hospital Program (website: http://www.vnh.org), Associate Director, Medical Informatics, US Military Cancer Institute, USUHS, Bethesda, Maryland, Clinical Staff, Nuclear Medicine, National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, Maryland Dr. Bakalar established the headquarters Naval Telemedicine Business Office which fielded and manages a Global Teleradiology PACS network for 21 ships and 23 shore-based medical facilities. The NTBO partners with the military services, federal agencies, international military, industry and academia to leverage best practices, industry standards and coordinates central Navy policy. The NTBO maintains the award-winning Virtual Naval Hospital for world-class online and CD-R digital medical reference.

M.D., Doctor Of Medicine

Ba, Pre-Med - Biology, Psychology, Computer Science And Naval Science - Nrotc