Dr. Hamilton currently serves as the Chief Medical Information Officer and Product Strategy Practice Director for PointClear Solutions, Inc., an innovative healthcare-focused software development firm with particular expertise in goal directed and user centric design. His particular focus is on helping healthcare organizations achieve their business goals through the strategic use of information technology via the implementation or integration of existing technologies and/or the development of custom solutions. In this role, he also leads a distinguished physician advisory panel that assists PointClear with understanding and responding to current and emerging trends in healthcare delivery.

In addition, he continues to practice pediatrics on a limited basis at a private practice that he co-founded in 2006. He is an administrator and active user of an ambulatory EMR in that setting, and he remains an active member of the clinical staff at Vanderbilt Children’s Hospital.

Prior to joining PointClear Solutions in 2011, Dr. Hamilton was the Corporate Director of Medical Informatics for Vanguard Health Systems, a 26 hospital investor-owned health system based in Nashville, TN. His responsibilities included the creation of the overall clinical information systems strategy for the inpatient and outpatient settings, the development of Vanguard’s health information exchange strategy, the creation of a business intelligence infrastructure for the clinical operations and quality departments, and the development of tools and process for developing and managing clinical content and clinical decision support. In addition to these responsibilities, he also actively participated in key quality and patient safety initiatives and corporate strategic planning activities. He was routinely engaged to suggest innovative informatics approaches for continuously improving performance throughout the health system.

Before joining Vanguard in 2007, Dr. Hamilton held a number of positions within McKesson’s information technology division. His work focused primarily on the product development, implementation, and product management activities related to McKesson’s CPOE solution called Horizon Expert Orders (HEO). HEO was purchased from Vanderbilt by McKesson in 2001. In 2005, he also began the implementation of an ambulatory EMR solution for a private 35 provider 7 location pediatric practice in Nashville, TN.

Dr. Hamilton received his Doctorate in Medicine degree from the University of Tennessee – Memphis College of Medicine and completed his residency in Pediatrics at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. During his residency program, he also worked extensively with Vanderbilt’s Department of Biomedical Informatics on a number of clinical systems projects. He has been a member of the American Medical Informatics Association since 2001. Additionally, he has been a member of the Health Informatics Taskforce of the Federation of American Hospitals and the National Quality Forum’s Clinical Decision Support Technical Expert Panel.

I was a Chemist and Project Manager in an environmental laboratory in my first career life. In my second career life, I did a 180 turn toward design and interiors. I think they always say that three times is the charm. It was the marriage of scientific theory and design that made User Experience where I wanted to plant my feet and grow my career. The strong methodology, understanding people and their work, and pure design are all so interesting to me. Since people will always be “messy” and technology always changing, the field of User Experience will remain challenging and fascinating. I have worked Academia (Georgia Institute of Technology), Public Health (The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)), and now Healthcare with a number of hospital systems and healthcare software companies.

Smith College – BS in Chemistry
Georgia Tech – MS in Human-Computer Interaction

SIGCHI
Technology Association of Georgia
Georgia HIMSS

I love that technology is a moving target. I think the 18 month rule is now more like 12 months now. It is only going to get shorter. I think this short life cycle forces innovation. How we as users catch up to such a short life cycle mentally? How do the usage models of a few years ago disappear with three new ones to understand? We have to be creative and innovative about this.

For me, it is just plain and simple, User Experience is the most important topic and it touches everything. I live and breathe it. My husband once asked me “if I could turn it off ever?” and the answer is it is just not possible. I see opportunities for innovation and improvement in all parts of life. It affects all people all day long. It is very important to me to know that the field of User Experience as a whole has made a positive difference in people’s lives.

• 20+ years of leadership experience across healthcare, retail, and manufacturing industries
• Recently served as Chief Operating Officer, Shared Health Incorporated, from 2009 to 2011 - a health information exchange with over 4 million patient records & 55,000 patient records accessed per month
• Prior to Shared Health, Neece was Partner, The Viability Company – a Brentwood, TN based consulting firm servicing healthcare companies in the areas of business performance optimization and financial restructure
• Justin spent five years in retail for Dollar General Corporation, a $11B small box retailer with over 10,000 stores.  As Senior Director, Operations Strategy, he led several board-level programs.
• At the start of his career, Neece spent 10 years in the manufacturing arena as a Plant Manager for companies such as Nissan, Tyco Healthcare, Lozier Corporation, and Kimball International.

• Former CEO of a Software Firm specializing in Health Care Patient Management with over 1,100 clinics.
• Former CIO of a $300M Atlanta based firm
• Understands all platform dependencies and integration issues
• Strong experience in all aspects of software development from desktop, web and mobile