Charles Deshazer

Senior Physician Executive with broad clinical, managerial and consulting experience. Board-certified Internal Medicine physician with over 20 years of clinical, quality improvement, disease management, informatics, accreditation, managerial and consulting experience in a wide variety of regional and national healthcare organizational settings (public hospital, multispecialty group, IPA, large insurance payer and HMO).
Particular expertise in "Transformative Medical Informatics" which is the implementation of new structures, systems, technology and workflows to dramatically improve clinical and operational performance. Proven track record demonstrates consistent and progressive results in this area in over 20 years of experience. Transformative Medical Informatics is the intersection of organizational development, clinical informatics, change management, business process re-engineering and quality improvement.
Proven ability to create, lead and manage organizations, create and execute innovative strategies, influence physician practice, provide leadership to build effective teams and integrate technology into clinical and business settings. Senior level experience in developing start-up operations and rapidly implementing solutions to meet the challenges facing today's healthcare organizations. Have implemented disease management programs, a medical group "medical home" model as well as developed innovative organizational transformation methodology for effectively integrating care management functions (e.g. Utilization management, Quality) with business functions (e.g. Contracting, Claims) to facilitates collaborative care delivery within health plans and group and network based physician models.