MEDICAL INFORMATICS - Consulting, Software, Clinical, Computing, Patient, Education, Outcomes, Bioinformatics

Christopher Galassi, MD, MS, IPLI principal, possesses a rare combination of a degree in medicine, as well as deep skills in real world software engineering and development. This combination allows IPLI special insight to bridge the clinical – computational gap in planning and development of cutting-edge software for healthcare.

Planning and development of systems for Medical Informatics applications require insight into both healthcare and computer sciences. Issues stemming from an inability to bridge the clinical computing gap, present

stumbling blocks for many sincere efforts. Single strength in computing results in lack of key insight into clinical needs while efforts from a position of clinical insight often lack computational sophistication and vision to succeed. A "committee of experts" approach can be extremely expensive and still not produce good results due a to simple lack of clear communication.

Dr. Galassi was trained in Medical Informatics at University of Illinois and the National Institutes of Health. He has carried out research on such advanced topics as medical expert systems and pattern recognition in biomedical data, and was recently published in the book "Future Health: Computers and Medicine in the 21^st Century". IPLI and Dr. Galassi have experience in applications for the healthcare domain ranging from multimedia simulation for clinical and patient education, to information system development for laboratory data and clinical outcomes collection.

Examples of Dr. Galassi’s research experience and IPLI solutions applied to Medical Informatics include the following:

Consulting	Medical Information and Educational Systems Experience
Needs Assessment Strategic Planning Usability Testing Project Management	Database and Laboratory information systems Clinical outcomes collection and management	Interactive Education Clinical Simulations Scientific Visualization Medical Expert Systems
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