Dr. Jean-Marc Palm

• Dr. Jean Marc Palm is the Global Managing Director and Professional Certifications Exam Coach at PalmiTech Group Inc. He has over 10 years of experience in health IT, clinical sciences, and hospital engineering in North America, Europe, and Africa. Dr Palm started Palmitech with an extensive background in eHealth ICT success factors research, and using both project management body knowledge (PMBOK) methodology, and healthcare information and management systems (HIMSS) methodology to manage, create and implement successful EHR and clinical IT system, and led the Request for Proposal (RFP) effort for a variety of hospital-wide and country-wide eHealth and clinical information systems program. He facilitated physicians and nurses requirements’ definition effort with C-level participation from Advanced Clinical Systems, Advanced Physician Systems, Clinical Decision Support, Workflow Redesign in hospital information initiatives. Dr. Palm has acquired extensive knowledge regarding the evaluation and development of health and clinical information system.Dr. Palm has a particular interest in the eHealth and ICT Acceptability Factors and the use of technology to support the delivery of high quality patient care. He spent many years in different hospital settings analyzing the challenges of adopting and modeling health professional processes. His international eHealth research experience in both France and Canada gives him the experience and the skills to fully understand and manage the diversity and complexity of  planning and implementating comprehensive electronic health recording (EHR) and grant writing. During his research, he conducted EHR benchmarking report analysis and lead a comparative evaluation of two international comprehensive clinical information system. He explained how human factors influence the adoption of healthcare information technology. His papers are published in medical informatics conferences and he is a recipient of the Best Paper 2011 IMIA Yearbook of Medical Informatics in Biomedical Informatics Perspective on Human Factors category. An active participant in conferences and public forums, Dr. Palm has spoken on eHealth success factors, clinical IT adoption processes, healthcare business process modeling at major international conferences (AMIA, MedInfo, Aqesss 2010) and universities hospitals in Canada, France, and West Africa. As a researcher Dr. Palm has extensive experience with information management systems research and software, including several years using biostatistical analysis, structural equation modelling (LISREL) to analyze clinical IS success determinants  data using both univariate and multivariate statistical methods.Dr.Palm has an InterDisciplinary Ph.D., (ID Ph.D.) from Conjoint eHealth Research Program, from the University Pierre and Marie in France and the University of Sherbrooke in Canada. He has a Ph.D. in Clinical Sciences and eHealth form the University of Sherbrooke and a Doctorate (Dr.P.H.M.I.), in Public Health and Medical Informatics form the University Pierre and Marie. Dr. Palm also has a Masters’ degree in Health Services Administration (M.H.A), Health Informatics (M.H.I), Clinical and Hospital Engineering (M.H.E), Energy Engineering (M.E.E), respectively from the University of Montreal , University Pierre and Marie, University of Technology of Compiegne and National Engineering School. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Polytechnic University. He holds the PMP, ITIL and CSSGB designations.Dr. Palm’s research, teaching, eLearning, and consulting interests include biomedical and health information technology and informatics, clinical business intelligence and eHealth IS needs assessment.  He is a frequent speaker at academic, business, healthcare agencies, and international conferences. Dr Palm is a  healthcare strategy and technology executive with extensive experience in building and leading clinical solution development, advising senior IT executives, designing and implementing strategic ehealth ICT solutions, as well as healthcare IT project management and health professional IT using change management in life science organizations.

  Dr. Palm has collaborated with a large number of public and private hospitals in North America, Europe, and Africa as well as ministries of health with the acquisition and implementation of health technology and clinical information systems. Dr. Palm believes in leading with a strong commitment to the communities in which Palmitech does business, including hands-on employee volunteerism. He is involved as a volunteer in the development of CPOE content, governance aspects and policy and procedures in Healthcare Information and Management System Society (HIMSS) Chicago Chapter in the USA. He is reviewer for three medical journals and member of Canadian Knowledge Translation Initiative. Dr. Palm is an active member of the International Journal of Medical Informatics, American Medical Informatics Association, International Medical Informatics Assocication – MedInfo, SOQIBS, and HIMSS. Dr. Palm currently resides in Canada.

   

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