Linda Macomber on Clubhouse

Bio

Health tech 💻and digital health 🩺pioneer, professor, 👩‍🏫early adopter, speaker, 🎤consultant, 💡author, traveler, ✈️ program director 🇺🇸

Enjoy empowering people with digital health communications, decision support, innovations, telehealth, virtual care, etc. to add years to our lives and more life to our years.

- Founded, launched, and scaled, a graduate degree program in Health Informatics.
- Prepared professionals to advance human health through effective leadership and the smart use of innovation and technology.
- Founded a health tech discovery lab on emerging practices.
- Created digital curriculum/online programs and developed faculty.
- Pioneered health tech/ health IT software development/ launch of multi-billion-dollar Composite Health Care System used globally over 34 years.
- Founded Healthcare Tech Consulting in 1993 Clients included - Kaiser, IBM, SAIC (Leidos), Healthlink, Genentech, Anvita Health, UCSD, Community Clinics, NIH, NCI and startups.

- Programmed/launched health apps in Mumps across Boston hospitals in the 1980s.
- Lead requirements team for the predecessor to Kaiser HealthConnect Epic System in the 1990s.
- Began career as a pediatric RN, ICU, at Boston Children's.

- Traveled to all 50 states and across five continents both personally and professionally
- Alumni - University of Michigan, and Northeastern University.
- Member of HIMSS since 1989 Chaired Davies Award, joined ANIA in 1993 and FutureMed/XMed 2013.
Live in San Diego and as a digital nomad after Covid. Proud mom of an amazing daughter.