PointClear - Technical Design - Thinking Beyond Function.

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Your Challenges

These are selective challenges we are helping our clients respond to. Before taking the plunge, find out how PointClear can help you. View Solutions >

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An EHR vendor. What is the best patient-centric functionality you should consider to comply with Meaningful Use? What are the relevant integration needs? How do you ensure that our Electronic Health Record solution impacts clinician workflow positively?

A health plan. You need better adoption of your Member Consumer Portal. Should you be going in a different direction in communicating with your members and stakeholders?

A hospital. What is the best way for us to electronically Distribute Patient Information? What technologies should you use? How do you get patients engaged and be better prepared for their hospital visit? How do you ensure your doctors are in control of what is being sent?

A large medical practice. Are you really empowering our patients? Can you actually use technology to improve health outcomes?

An HIT provider. Will your new technologies make work easier or harder for your end-user doctors and clinicians?

A new Health 2.0 venture backed technology entrant. How will you generate maximum adoption of your new disease community or gaming site?

A Health Information Exchange. What technology choices and integration strategies should you be using?

A Disease Management company. How can you make your web-based assessment tools easier to use and more effective? How do you get patients engaged, more knowledgeable and better prepared to manage their health issues?

David Karabinos

President and Chief Executive Officer

Professional Background
Prior to assuming the leadership role at PointClear, I was the managing partner and CEO of Harvest Business Advisors, a growth strategy management consulting firm. Prior to Harvest, I co-founded EquaTerra, the largest outsourcing advisory firm in the world and held the COO and CFO positions. I also founded and was the CEO of eHealthClaim, a healthcare technology provider delivering customer service software, ASP and BPO services to the mid-market health insurance industry.

I have over 30 years of experience as an executive in the technology and business services industries including outsourcing and consulting with more than 15 years as a successful entrepreneur. I serve on the board of seven startups, early stage companies and non-profit organizations. I also work with startups and early stage companies as the chairman of the board of BizTech, the largest technology business incubator in North Alabama.

Education and Degree
BS Management, University of Alabama Birmingham

On Technology and Innovation
Technology innovation is only worthwhile if it impacts someone’s life. The impact can be small, medium or large but it has to make a difference. We are particularly excited with the acceleration of healthcare unbound technologies like Halo Monitoring which are enabling the care of people’s health outside of traditional facilities - at home and on the road.

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Blaine Anderson

Founder and Chief Operating Officer

Professional Background
After earning an engineering degree at Auburn, I headed to NASA, where I worked in the areas of vibration and acoustics, running tests on Space Station modules before they launched. I got the entrepreneurial bug during the dot-com mania and joined a startup with David, building a consumer-facing application in the health care space. After the dot-com "correction" I joined an early stage software services company where I spearheaded the expansion into two new geographic markets and built some of the earliest .NET commercial applications launched. I left that company to co-found PointClear with Donnie in 2006 and am now lucky enough to be working with some of the smartest folks I have ever met!

Education and Degree
Auburn University – BS in Agricultural Engineering

Professional Organizational Involvement
Huntsville Angel Network

On Technology and Innovation
The Smart Phone. Although I sometimes miss the simplicity of the good old simple “flip phone”, I now have figured out what functionality works for me as a true productivity tool and have more or less optimized my use of the platform.

On User Experience and Design
Well obviously any consumer product from Apple. But, another one that not as many people are aware of but is just is cool is the Sonos home music system. They have pretty much done everything right from a UX perspective. Easy to setup, easy to configure and easy to operate. The concentrate on what the User really cares about, which is listening to music – not configuring networks and firewalls. Truly a zero-configuration system. And “there is an app for that” – you can control it from an iPhone/iPad too!

Lee Farabaugh

Director of User Experience

Professional Background
I started my career as a web site producer, helping many colleges and universities launch their first generation web sites. This was back in the day when web designers had to fight with print designers, and people said the Internet was just a fad. Since then I have built web sites and applications, managed web application projects, discovered the value of good user experience, returned to school to learn more about what makes user experience excellent, and envisioned, created and tested application interfaces for companies and organizations such as Delta Airlines, The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Mercedes-Benz, Toyota, as well as a number of hospital systems and healthcare software companies.

Education and Degree
Wake Forest University – BA in Studio Art

Georgia Tech – MS in Human-Computer Interaction

University of Alabama at Birmingham – MS in Health Informatics

Professional Organizational Involvement
Digital Nashville Leadership Healthcare Council

On Technology and Innovation
Apps. I love the concept of apps for several reasons. One is that they have made a software development term (applications) commonplace. Now everyone understands what we mean by an app. Second, apps solve specific, measurable problems in everyday life. It has become somewhat of a joke, but it’s more true than not: find a problem you need to solve, and “there’s gotta be an app for that.”

On User Experience and Design
No user experience design discussion is complete without someone invoking the iPod, iPad, or iTunes. Not only are these products and the applications associated with them game-changers in terms of clean, intuitive, and practical solutions that meet and exceed users’ expectations, but they are also paradigm changers. iPod made it possible to carry your CD collection in your pocket, and iTunes showed the world that users don’t want to buy the whole album…they want to buy the songs they want. Think of an unmet need and create a platform around it.

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Neal Evans

Chief Technology Officer

Professional Background
I have over 20 years of experience working with computational technology. My breadth of experience ranges from applied projects (traditional private-sector IT and software engineering) to the theoretical/research world (computational physics, artificial intelligence, and computational finance). While my passion is for designing and building machines that learn using techniques such as genetic algorithms, my current interests tend to be focused in healthcare IT.

Education and Degree
PhD/MS, 1999/1996, Physics, University of Alabama at Birmingham

BS, 1994, Philosophy/Physics, Birmingham-Southern College

Professional Organizational Involvement
Board Member – A.G. Gaston Boys and Girls Club, Birmingham, AL
American Institute of Physics
American Physical Society
Optical Society of America
SPIE – the International Society of Optical Science and Engineering
HIMSS (Alabama Chapter)

On Technology and Innovation
My favorite technology is fictional--artificial intelligences such as the WOPR from War Games and the HAL 9000 from 2001-A Space Odyssey.

On User Experience and Design
One of my favorite user experiences is sitting next to my wife on the beach watching the sun set over the Gulf of Mexico while our twin sons play in the water.

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Donnie Gooch

Solution Architect

Professional Background
I have around 16 years of experiencing in software development--the majority of which has been as a consultant. Early in my career, I worked with two large IT shops developing mission-critical enterprise applications. For the past five years I have spent my time exclusively in the health care space. I am now primarily driven to learn and develop health care-related products.

Education and Degree
BS Computer Science, Samford University, 1995
Masters in Private / Public Management, Birmingham Southern College, 2003

On Technology and Innovation
My favorite technology is social networking. I spend much of my time involved with youth sports--including soccer, softball and others. I enjoy connecting with others through sports and using the social network to share it!

On User Experience and Design
My favorite user experience is with mobile device. Mobile devices have come to be so integral to our lives.

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