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.

Management Team

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

Bogen is a talented and accomplished executive with strong background in Health IT Strategy, 
Compliance, Information Privacy, and Project Management.  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. In the past, he was a security and privacy strategist for Intel 
Corporation in their Digital Health Group.  Prior to HealthCIO, Bogen was a Director of Strategic Planning 
for HealthSouth 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 an 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.

Dr. Kaufman specializes in healthcare strategy, program design, and implementation 
planning.  Some of Dr. Kaufman’s work includes: design of a disease management program 
for a telephonically based disease management vendor, design of a small call center for a 
major teaching hospital to enable referring physicians to arrange a multitude of services 
via a single phone number, and analysis and refinement of hospital quality plans.  Prior to 
consulting, Dr. Kaufman served as Senior Vice President of Private Healthcare Systems, Inc.  
Her many responsibilities included leading the implementation of an integrated managed care 
software system supporting key business processes; staging the implementation of software 
modules and version upgrades to meet business needs, project timelines, and budget; development 
of a new business strategy to deliver telephonic medical review services to over three 
million members of ERISA and commercial insurer plans; and reengineering medical 
management business processes.  Previously, Dr. Kaufman practiced as a board certified 
internist and served various administrative functions at a number of Boston’s leading 
hospitals. She has held teaching positions at Boston University School of Medicine, 
Tufts University School of Medicine, and Harvard University School of Medicine.  
She received her MD from the Boston University School of Medicine.

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.