Leading the Way in Telemedicine Advisory Services

Dr. Richard Bakalar has over 30 years of clinical, health informatics and executive leadership experience. Richard has supported HRSA (Health Resources and Services Administration) as a SME in reviewing their Telemedicine grants for award. He has a prior Radiology faculty appointment at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences – School of Medicine in Bethesda, MD. He is a U.S. physician specialist in KPMG’s Global Healthcare Center of Excellence and leads its Health Informatics and Telemedicine advisory practice. His leadership positions and notable achievements include:

• KPMG, LLP Practice leader for clinical intelligence and telehealth in the Global Healthcare Center of Excellence. Richard advises clients in healthcare, Telco’s, retail health & medical devices internationally on leading eHealth practices, market readiness, shared services, innovative data analytics, and advanced mHealth and consumer engagement solutions.
• Microsoft Corporation – Physician Executive, Dr. Bakalar was responsible for provider communications and clinical use case development in the US and Canada. He was a senior clinical advisor in Microsoft’s Health Solutions Group (HSG) which delivered innovative solutions to hospitals and health systems built on its enterprise Amalga and consumer HealthVault clinical intelligence platforms.
• IBM Corporation – Chief Medical Officer on its Healthcare Solution’s team. He was the senior advisor to the US and Canadian Healthcare GBS consulting services and sales teams, which focused on clinical transformation, optimized health IT infrastructure, regional medical imaging archive solutions and Health Analytics strategy within patient-centric networks.
• American Telemedicine Association (ATA) past President and its committee Chairman for Standards and Guidelines. He is now an active member of the ATA College of Fellows and the Telemedicine and eHealth journal editorial review board.
• US Navy – Captain Bakalar, Medical Corps, USN was the Navy Surgeon General’s first Special Assistant for Telemedicine and he established the Navy’s operational Global Telemedicine Network supporting digital radiology and 12 medical specialties on 28 Navy ships, three Navy medical centers and 23 hospitals and clinics worldwide between 1995-2002.