RFID in Healthcare Business Advisory Board

Donna Baer, Director, Strategic Projects, Information Technology
Mount Sinai Hospital, NY

Donna is a successful Information Technology Executive with over 20 years experience in hospitals. Donna has held various senior positions at NYU Medical Center and Mount Sinai Hospital in New York. Most recently, in her role as a Director in Strategic Projects in Information Technology at Mount Sinai Hospital, Donna has been responsible for the deployment of the GE/Agility RTLS Hospital Optimization Project. Her responsibilities included a in depth research and proof of concept for the RTLS vendor selection, physical inventory of 30,000 assets, RTLS infrastructure design and build, RFID tagging of 15,000 assets and the AgileTrac equipment module application design and build. Reconciliation efforts with the Clinical Engineering department are currently underway. Donna has extensive Leadership, Project Management and Business Analysis experience in the design and implementation of critical hospital applications including Cerner ADT, Scheduling and Registration, McKesson PeriOperative Scheduling and Materials Management,  Eclipsys Clinicals, and SMS/Eagle Patient Billing. Donna's years of varied hospital experience ensures an effective integration of Hospital Operations and technology. Donna earned her Master of Hospital Administration and Bachelor of Science from New York University.

Neil A Halpern MD, FACP, FCCP, FCCM, Chief Critical Care Medicine,
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY

Neil A Halpern MD, FCCP, graduated Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York in 1981 and trained in Internal Medicine at the Mount Sinai Medical Center and Critical Care Medicine (CCM) at Presbyterian University Medical Center, Pittsburgh.  Since 1999, he is Chief of CCM and Medical Director of Respiratory Therapy at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, NY and is Professor of Medicine and Anesthesiology at Weill Cornell Medical College, NY. Dr. Halpern is a Fellow of the American Colleges of Physicians, Chest Physicians and CCM and is a member of the Editorial board of Critical Care Medicine. He is a prolific author and speaker specializing in cost and use of critical care in America, innovations in ICU design, use of nurse practitioners in critical care, and point of care testing. His 20 bed adult medical-surgical ICU was awarded the national ICU design citation for 2009. He is also an advisory member of several ICU informatics and point of care testing corporations and is president of Critical Care Designs, a New York based ICU design consultation group.   

Al Hardy
Memorial Health University Medical Center

Al Hardy serves as the focal point for the Asset Management Initiative at Memorial Health University Medical Center in Savannah GA.  He serves as the project manager and system administrator for both Enterprise Asset Management and Real-Time Location Systems.  In addition to those roles, Al has taken a lead role in bringing on technologies such as Linear Accelerators, PET CT, Operating Room Integration, Digital Mammography, Surgical Robotics, Angiography, Cath Lab and Electrophysiology systems.  Currently, he is implementing Memorial’s acquisition plan for evaluating and acquiring Cardiovascular CT.  He is retired military with over 21 years of service. Lastly, Al Hardy has been published over 30 times.  His latest writing is booked called Covering Your Assets.

Dr. William Kearns, Experimental Psychology
University of South Florida

William Kearns received his Ph.D. in psychology from the University of South Florida in 1989. He has served on the faculty of the Louis de la Parte Florida Mental Health Institute from 1990 to the present and was recently the director of the Computer Support Center from 1992 to 2003. He joined the Department of Aging and Mental Health Disparities in October, 2003 and is an Assistant Professor. His interests include using automation to facilitate improved care for elders with dementia and using technology to improve access to mental health services and education. He is an Associate Editor for the international journal Gerontechnology  and is USF's Executive Liaison to the Internet 2 Project , a consortium of over 200 Carnegie Research I institutions nationwide charged with developing enhanced network services supporting research and education.

Dr. Mohammed Maghazil, head of application services in the Information Technology Affairs
King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Center (Saudi Arabia)

Dr. Maghazil is the head of application services in the Information Technology Affairs of King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Center (Saudi Arabia). He worked as the clinical computing manager and the project executive for the integrated clinical information system. He has M.Sc. and D.Sc in Engineering Management & Systems Engineering from George Washington University. He is now the project director for the "Building a Smart Hospital using Smart Technology" project as it is one of the strategic projects for the hospital that is using RFID and similar technologies.

Dr.  William H. Maisel, Director of the Medical Device Safety Institute
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Dr. Maisel is Director of the Medical Device Safety Institute at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, both in Boston, MA where he has an active cardiology practice.  Dr. Maisel received his undergraduate degree from MIT, his medical degree from Cornell Medical College, and a Masters in Public Health from the Harvard School of Public Health.  He is an FDA consultant and past chairperson of the FDA’s Circulatory System Medical Device Advisory Panel.  Dr. Maisel’s research interests involve the safe and effective use of medical devices.  His research has received national attention – most recently for investigations concerning the security and privacy of wireless transmissions from implantable medical devices, and electromagnetic interference affecting pacemakers and implanted defibrillators.

Jeff Paynter, Senior Information Technology Analyst
Duke University Health System

Mr. Paynter is responsible for Duke University Health System’s wireless network which covers ~7 million square feet across multiple buildings, campuses and WAN sites.  Mr. Paynter designs, implements, and maintains cost effective information technology solutions based on critical analysis of business functions and risk assessments. Mr. Paynter designs wireless networks for various healthcare applications such as: barcode for lab specimen collection, barcode for medicine administration, computerized physician order entry (CPOE), echocardiograms (EKG), guest access, intravenous (IV) pumps, location services with passive and active radio frequency identification (RFID) tags, picture archiving system (PACS), etc.  Mr. Paynter developed the “Wireless 101” technical support documentation used for staff training. Prior to Duke Mr. Paynter was responsible for the University of Rochester Medical Center’s wireless network which covered ~5.5 million square feet across multiple buildings, campuses and WAN sites.

Derrick W. VanKampen, BMDI Analyst Information Technology
Tampa General Hospital

A Biomedical Device Integration analyst employed by Tampa General Hospital who is focused on the integration of medical devices, healthcare systems, RTLS, and alarms.  Striving for a converged platform, which is accessible and functional by mobile communication devices.  Drawing on 13 years of experience with biomedical devices, networks,support systems, and clinical alarms, 10 of which were spent as a Biomedical Engineering Technician in the United States Air Force. Derrick has his AAS in Biomedical Engineering, he is also Network +, RFID +, CWNA certified.  He has also attended numerous vendor schools (Capsuletech, GE, Philips etc.) and is currently studying  Unified Communications, which he believes will greatly expand healthcare system integration.