What is Your Data Strategy? How the VNA Can Serve as the Foundation

John works with internal and external teams to solve clinical problems using data science and artificial intelligence methods. He leads the solution architecture and definition of learning platforms and applications that are co-created with GE’s clinical partners at several world-renowned academic health systems. His team develops solution-centric product management techniques spanning multiple GE Healthcare businesses, regions and product-lines. He also helps define portfolio priorities, regulatory and clinical strategy, and business-development targets. Prior to this role, he led product strategy and innovation for GE’s enterprise imaging IT business and was the program director and leader for a 7 year, large-scale co-development partnership with the UPMC health system creating novel enterprise imaging solutions. Prior to his career at GE, John was the Sr. Director of Health Informatics Research and Strategy at Bayer Healthcare, responsible for clinical application research, concept development, and strategic direction for Medrad products. He conceived and co-built the Bayer Radiology informatics business which today is the industry leading radiation dose and contrast media analytics solution. Before Bayer, he was Sr. Principal Research Scientist at MEDRAD, Inc., developing innovative ideas and concepts for optimizing medical imaging procedures. Many of his innovations are on the market around the world: nuclear medicine and radiological agent delivery, diagnostic and interventional cardiology devices and patient monitoring systems. He also held various positions in systems engineering and embedded software development in consulting engineering engagements in multiple industries. He is principal inventor or co-inventor on 35 US Patents and ~15 pending applications and has authored many scientific articles, abstracts and speaks at numerous events in and outside the healthcare industry. John was awarded a PhD in Electrical/Bioengineering from the University of Pittsburgh (signal processing and optimization), an MSEE via joint Pitt/Carnegie Mellon University program. He also was granted Bachelor degrees in Physics and Electrical Engineering from the University of Scranton.