Victor S. Dorodny, M.D., N.D., Ph.D., M.P.H., FIIA, FAAPM

 

Prof. Dorodny, a practicing/consulting physician, academician and technologist, combines a specialist medical degree with over 35 years of traditional clinical and academic experience, as well as a Doctorate in Naturopathic Medicine and over 17 years of hands-on Naturopathic and Alternative Medicine experience.

He he is an expert on Internal Medicine, Endocrinology, Medical Weight Management, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Anesthesiology and Pain Management and Multi-disciplinary approach to the management of chronic disease states.

Prof. Dorodny’s areas of expertise encompass traditional medical practice and naturopathy with a focus on nutrition, botanical medicine, nutrition, homeopathy, hydrotherapy, physical manipulation, pharmacology and psychology.

Prof. Dorodny is Board Certified by the American Academy of Pain Management, Diplomate and Distinguished Fellow of the American College of Ethical Physicians, Associate in Medicine of the American College of Legal Medicine (ACLM), Diplomate and Distinguished Fellow of the American College of Hospital Physicians, and graduate of USC Executive Management Institute in Health Care.  

He is the world-renowned expert on Tele-Medicine and Tele-Health, a former Chief Medical Officer and Global Practice Leader for US Tele-Medicine and currently serves as the Medical Director for TeleMed Partners.

TeleMed Partners joins imminent telemedicine boom

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Nov. 22, 2010 Malibu, California. Prof. Victor S. Dorodny, MD, is realigning his 17-year-old health care policy, economics and information technology consulting company, Health Pro Worldwide, Inc., and refocusing on the hot fields of health information technology (HIT) and telemedicine. The new company, TeleMed Partners, with almost two decades of expertise, fosters strategic partnerships between HIT manufacturers, medical service providers, consumers, and payors. Its first consulting client is US Tele-Medicine of Beverly Hills. “The current US health care system needs to expand the use of Health Information Technologies (HIT) and Telemedicine. The system emerging in the wake of new health care legislation will crash without it,” says Dr. Victor Dorodny. “Adding thirty million health care consumers, while mandating extended coverage, combined with increased demand for health care from the aging baby boomers is straining the system at the seams. Telemedicine seems to be our best viable alternative to provide health care for the ever growing needs of the consumer, especially the chronically ill and aging. I have no doubt that health care delivery in the US will change dramatically in the next ten years through the adoption of telemedicine. We are in the convergent space defined by medicine, information, and technology, and plan to work hard on integrating them for the benefit of the health care system.”

Prof. Dorodny, MD, ND, PhD, MPH (www.DrDorodny.com) President of TeleMed Partners, was one of the creators of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA). He has served on the Advisory Board of the Assoc. of Medical Director of Information Systems and the National Assoc. of Managed Care Physicians. He conceived, designed, and led development of Knowledge-based Health Information Systems (KbHIS©) operational databases for healthcare organizations. He has consulted for the Joint Commission for Accreditation of Hospital Organizations, the National Association of Consulting Pharmacists, the National Pharmaceutical Council, and the FDA, and is internationally recognized for advancing electronic health record technologies (EMR, EHR, PHR), and promoting confidentiality and security of health information. For an expanded biography please see www.DrDorodny.com.

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TeleMed Partners is a physician –owned consulting company with over 35 years of clinical, academic, medical technology and IT/HIT experience offering tactical and strategic medical & HIT (health information technology) guidance and integrated solutions to all telemedicine stakeholders.


Experienced staff of HIT and medical professionals, as well as networking and integration specialists develops high quality lower cost solutions for consumers, providers and payors of health care.


In strategic partnership with HIT manufacturers, service providers, purchasers, providers and payors of health care, and health information exchanges (HIE) we are in a convergent space defined by medicine, information and technology.

Our staff can be reached at Info@TeleMedPartners.com
Dr. Dorodny can be reached at Dorodny@medscape.com

Not anecdotal any more--State of California loses medical information on 2,500 Californians!

Over the past 18 years of advocating and working towards adequate protections of privacy and confidentiality of health/medical r records/information,  I have published  at least two dozen  of bleaches  of patient identifiable information. 

Most  losses are due either to intentional and just negligent violation of existing protocols and procedures by the employees of health care organizations (on all levels), or lack of proper technological barriers to prevent losses, or a combination of both. The latest massive breach comes courtesy of the California Department of Public Health (CDPH), which reported losing data for more than 2,500 facility residents, department employees and other health-care workers to state authorities this week.  The lost information was stored on an unencrypted magnetic tape, and included everything from employee emails and background information on health-care workers to the names and diagnoses of health facility residents and social security numbers for both employees and patients. In September 2010, the tape was sent from a CDPH field office in West Covina to the central office in Sacramento via the U.S. Postal Service; while the envelope that was supposed to have contained the tape arrived, it was unsealed and empty. The standard procedure for handling such media containing personal medical information of thousands of  Californians is to have all patient-specific data encrypted at a proper level, and the tape/CD itself to be send by insured and bonded carrier. CDPH is "not wasting any time" and is taking "immediate corrective measures" to mitigate the consequences by “…notifying anyone who may have been affected by the breach”. Most of these problems could be avoided by implementation of a robust and secure Electronic Medical Record(EMR) or Electronic Health Records (EHR). That is why TeleMed  Partners are working hard to promote and implement such systems on all levels of health care. In a mean time, if concerned with security of your health/medical data/information, please call the CDPH at (916) 558-1784 to inquire as to who and how  is safeguarding your medical information? We gripe, you decide.

Prof. Victor Dorodny in the National Press

January 14th, 2011 issue of Self Funding Magazine publishes the "Killing Granny?" article by Prof. Victor Dorodny of rationing of health care. 

Here is the link: http://www.selffundingmagazine.com/article-detail.php?issue=issue-13&article=killing-granny

                                                     

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The December 2010 issue National Health Reform Magazine publishes Prof. Victor Dorodny's article "HIT $olutions for PPACA or Symbiosis between Telemedicine & PPACA".

Here is the link:   http://healthcarereformmagazine.com/article/hit-olutions-for-ppaca-or-symbiosis.html