Jitendra Barmecha
Interface between humans and machines using collective intelligence
- Role
- Client Healthcare Advisory Board Member at Verizon Business
- Location
- Bronx, NY, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Jitendra Barmecha
Dr. Jitendra Barmecha began his clinical and healthcare leadership career at SBH Health System(SBHHS), Bronx NY as Chief Medical Resident after completing three years in the Internal Medicine Residency Program. Following his chief medical residency, he earned his MPH degree in Health Management and Policy at New York Medical College, while continuing to provide patient care and medical education services as faculty in the Department of Medicine at SBHHS.As a Chief Information and Digital Strategy officer, he is involved in SBHHS digital transformation journey by upgrading the health systems technologies (Epic EHR and Oracle ERP), telecom infrastructure, information security; ensuring clinical information systems andpatient monitoring devices are well integrated into the electronic health records for the future, data innovations and patient engagement solutions.Dr. Barmecha has been a member of the senior executive team of the COVID-19 pandemic command center at SBHHS. During the early part of the COVID-19 pandemic, he contributed in the publication of “Telehealth Implementation Playbook” & Remote Monitoring of Patients for the American Medical Association and “Telemedicine for the physicians” for the American College of Physicians. As a chairman of the board, he provides clinical leadership to the Bronx Regional Health Information Exchange (RHIO) & Bronx Regional Informatics Center. He is the founding executive board member of NODE Health – network of evidence in Digital Medicine,also serves on the healthcare advisory board for Peterson Digital Health Institute, HCTec, Verizon 5G and Salesforce.Dr. Barmecha served as inaugural chair of the Digital and Telehealth Advisory Board at the American College of Physicians and past member of Medical Informatics Committee. He is the Past President and Governor of the NY State Chapter and Master of the American College of Physicians, Senior Fellow of the Society of Hospital Medicine and Fellow of European Congress of Internal Medicine. While continuing his passion for bedside patient care as a hospitalist, he enjoys teaching clinical staff, medical students and routinely provides lectures on health care management, technology, digital medicine, augmented intelligence (AI), care innovation and health policy. He has published several book chapters on the topics of clinical medicine, health IT and patient safety
Experience
Client Healthcare Advisory Board Member
Oct 2018 — Present · New York, NY, US
Education
New York Medical College
Master of Public Health (MPH), Health Management & Policy
2001 — 2003
Columbia Business School
Executive Education - Certificate, Digital Health Strategy
2019
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Certificate, Artificial Intelligence for Buisness Strategies
2018
Gauhati University
Doctor of Medicine (M.D.), Medicine
1987 — 1992
Joan & Sanford I. Weill Medical College of Cornell University
Doctor of Medicine (M.D.), Internal Medicine Residency Program
1996 — 2000
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