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Serving as a strategic thought leader, Dr. Haqqi brings over 18 years of experience in Health Care Management, Information Systems, Clinical Transformation/Consulting and Health Policy Analysis. As a US Citizen, he has worked his way up from the practice of Medicine, to the practice of Healthcare Administration, Policy, and Information Systems. He has developed Health Care Information Management Solutions, Products, Applications and a Provider Networks across the globe.

His first Health Care Services Company “Amatech Associates Inc.” was incorporated in the 90’s. Amatech Associates Inc. provides Medical Transcription/Coding and Support Services to a group of 540 physicians at Medical Faculty Associates, George Washington Hospital in Washington DC. At Amatech, he established a quality control center for document management with the IT department of MFA, and assisted the physicians on a one basis in implementing Allscript’s EMR and Medquist’s Transcription/Coding work flow.

At the beginning of the millennium year, Kash assisted various Healthcare Systems as a Physician Marketing Specialist working for “Cerner Corporation”. These organizations include Mayo, Genesis, Northwestern Memorial Physician Group, Heart Foundation, Tallahassee Memorial, Medical College of Augusta, Rochester Medical Group and a number of others. At Cerner he was responsible for analyzing an organization’s internal processes and paper flow including clinical templates and encounter pathway, while also working primarily with Electronic Health Record. While working with the Provider and Physicians he assisted in developing clinical encounter pathways, defining their clinical work flows electronically and the training to do so.

After Cerner, Dr. Haqqi was staffed at IDX Carecast Implementation for ProHealth Inc in Waukesha, Wisconsin. At that time he was employed with Cap Gemini Ernst & Young, US, LLC (formerly known as Ernst & Young) as a Clinical Transformation Consultant. He assisted the client at ProHealth in Solution definition, Solution Development, and Integrated Testing, Technology workshops and worked with Providers and Physicians for the implementation of Electronic Health Records.

Finally by 2004, as an entrepreneur in nature and understanding the dynamics of Information Technology and Healthcare Industry, Dr. Haqqi established a healthcare informatics and services company (www.pragmedic.net) based out of Chicago, Illinois, USA along with two other physicians. At Pragmedic he designed, developed and deployed a Clinical Information Solution that includes Registration, Scheduling, Billing (interfaced with Emdeon for online billing), Electronic Medical Record, Computerized Patient Order Entry, Document Management, Scanning, Transcription/Dictation, Messaging, Accounting, Inventory, Human Resource Management and Alert modules. The vision of Pragmedic Solutions, LLC was to provide a state of the art, inexpensive yet easy to implement and user friendly Health Informatics Solution and Applications (EMR/EHR) to group practices, hospital, insurance companies, laboratories, pharmacies, community, and governments by enabling an “Integrated Health Network.” He was also successful in designing, and deploying centralized implementation and training methodology.

In recent years Dr. Haqqi has worked as a Senior Product Manager for Nuance Communications, managing a revolutionary solution that assists help Physicians improve specificity in Clinical Documentation to achieve appropriate reimbursement and support of the transition to ICD 10. This was designed for physicians to use in Acute Care Inpatient Hospital environment, and integrated into their existing dictation workflow using Dragon Medical, eScription and Dictaphone Enterprise Speech System. The solution leverages Nuance’s Speech Recognition and Clinical Language Understanding technologies and 3M’s Clinical Documentation Improvement Software guidelines and coding content to interactively assist Providers during the documentation creation process.

Currently Dr. Haqqi is leading one of the world’s largest Telecom Company “Verizon’s” Health Care Enterprise as a Managing Principal. He is monitoring new healthcare trends and is responsible for Go-To-Market, Business Development, Product Management, Sales and Professional Services activities for two solutions; Verizon Fraud Management for Commercial Payor Market and Verizon Patient Privacy Management for the Commercial Provider Market. He is also responsible for incubating new solutions at Verizon including Verizon Patient Privacy Management Solution.

His vast experience has allowed him to design and deliver two separate Graduate courses in the departments of Health Service Administration and Policy on Health Information Management and Biostatics at George Washington University, Washington DC and George Mason University, Fairfax Virginia respectively. Dr. Haqqi has also been a co-author of a paper on the “Unit Cost of Counseling and Patients’ Length of Stay in a Residential Drug Treatment Setting”, published in The Journal of Mental Health Policy and Economic. He has appeared as a guest lecturer at multiple occasions at Georgetown University, Washington DC and several other prestigious institutes.

In addition to his clinical, statistical, marketing, operational, academic and IT experiences, Dr. Haqqi has earned a Medical Degree and a Master’s in Health Services Administration with concentration in Management Information Systems.