Hello, I’m Glenn Laffel and I hope you enjoy Pizaazz! I have been in health care for nearly 30 years. I completed an internal medicine residency and cardiovascular disease fellowship at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, which is affiliated with Harvard Medical School. I also earned a PhD in Health Policy and Management from MIT.

My former company, Clinical Solutions, was acquired in 2006 by CAS Services (UK) after we created algorithmic content for use by nurse triage call centers, and the algorithms became the most widely used in the world.

Currently, I am the Senior Vice President for Clinical Affairs at Practice Fusion, which offers a SaaS-based Electronic Heath Record for free to providers, particularly those in solo and small group practices.

More than 23,000 folks have signed up with us so far. Recently, we have secured a strategic investment from salesforce.com, enabled electronic reporting of lab results (including Quest and BioReference), received certification from SureScripts for our e-Prescribing module, and released a Personal Health Record which is unique in that it is linked directly to our EHR.

Before starting Clinical Solutions, I was an attending physician in the heart transplantation program at the Brigham. I was also founding editor of a peer-reviewed journal, Quality Management in Health Care, and a consultant to providers in several countries on matters of organizational performance and the quality of care. I did quite a lot of public speaking during this period as well.

I enjoy travel, photography, modern art, weight lifting and jazz. I voted for George McGovern and notably, I have survived for 28 years as a Yankee fan while living in enemy territory.