The portal was created by Bogen to address critical issues in health 
information technology. Despite the fact that health care is the most information-
intensive industry, critical data are often difficult to access and often mismanaged. The 
end result can be poor quality of care especially if information is missing, inaccessible or 
if patient outcomes cannot be tracked. From 1998 to 1999, healthcare providers struggled 
with the Y2K problem only to be followed in 2000 and beyond with complying with HIPAA
(Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act). HIPAA will have a far greater cost 
and systems re-engineering impact than Y2K because it is so far reaching.  

HIPAA has been called the "Y2K times ten" for healthcare because of the expected impact.
Now with HITECH passed under ARRA (American Recovery and Reinvestment Act), 
HIPAA is now more than a paper tiger and enforcement is expected to be real and 
perhaps painful for those entities that fail to comply with its requirements.

Management Team

Jonathan D. Bogen, Founder and Managing Principal, CIPP, MBA, MSc

Bogen is a talented and accomplished executive with strong background in Health IT Strategy, 
Compliance, Information Security and Privacy.  He has more than twenty years experience in 
health information systems. Currently, he is managing principal of HealthCIO Inc 
a health IT consulting, research, and strategy firm.  HealthCIO’s core mission is in helping 
health care providers and information technology companies develop cost-effective and 
compliant health care strategies through training and awareness. HealthCIO clients include 
large vendors, government agencies and health care providers. Currently, he serves as a 
senior consultant in security and privacy for IBM Global Business Services.  
Prior to HealthCIO,  Bogen was a Senior Strategist in Digital Health with Intel Corporation. 
He is active in HIMSS Privacy and Security Committee. In 2002, he published the 
HIPAA IT Handbook: Strategies to Protect Health Information.  He has extensive 
experience in Medical Informatics, Epidemiology, and medical privacy. He has a 
Masters in Science in Epidemiology and Public Health from the University of
Massachusetts and a MBA from Boston University School of Management. 
He is a long standing member of the Healthcare Information and Management 
Systems Society (HIMSS) and a certified member of the International Association 
of Privacy Professionals.

Advisory Board

Dr. Restuccia is Professor of Health Care and Operations Management at the Boston University 
School of Management. Much of Dr. Restuccia's career has focused on issues pertinent to health 
care quality and productivity, with a particular emphasis on the appropriateness of hospital use. 
He is developer of the Appropriateness Evaluation Protocol (AEP) and the Managed Care
Appropriateness Protocol (MCAP) widely used decision making methods for utilization management.
Dr. Restuccia, who received his masters and doctorate degrees in public health from the 
University of California at Berkeley, has published extensively in his field and has led a number 
of major research studies. His recent research includes serving as principal investigator of an 
Agency for Health Care Policy and Research sponsored study to investigate the relationship 
between small area variations in hospital admissions and appropriateness of admissions and 
serving as research consultant to a European Community project on determinants of hospital 
use.