M*Modal creates CMIO role
Jonathan A. Handler, MD, has joined clinical documentation services and speech recognition technology developer M*Modal as CMIO, a new position at the company.
In his new role, Handler will seek to help the company's speech understanding technologies make physicians’ workflow more efficient.
In addition to more than a decade of clinical practice at academic medical centers as a board-certified emergency physician, he previously served as the Health Solutions Group’s chief deployment architect at Microsoft, director of Azyxxi development at the National Institute for Medical Informatics and director of emergency medicine research and informatics at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, where he remains an adjunct associate professor of emergency medicine, Franklin, Tenn.-based M*Modal said in a news release.
Handler also has served as director of development for the National Center for Emergency Medicine Informatics and as past president and past secretary/treasurer of the American College of Emergency Physicians informatics section, and was a founding member of the Academic Informatics Group of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine.
In his new role, Handler will seek to help the company's speech understanding technologies make physicians’ workflow more efficient.
In addition to more than a decade of clinical practice at academic medical centers as a board-certified emergency physician, he previously served as the Health Solutions Group’s chief deployment architect at Microsoft, director of Azyxxi development at the National Institute for Medical Informatics and director of emergency medicine research and informatics at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, where he remains an adjunct associate professor of emergency medicine, Franklin, Tenn.-based M*Modal said in a news release.
Handler also has served as director of development for the National Center for Emergency Medicine Informatics and as past president and past secretary/treasurer of the American College of Emergency Physicians informatics section, and was a founding member of the Academic Informatics Group of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine.
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