Glenn Laffel
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Glenn Laffel (born February 19, 1954) is a
Laffel had previously served as an
Career
From 1987 to 1992, Laffel was an attending physician in the
Laffel also served as the Director of Quality Management at
Starting in March 1988, Laffel co-developed and taught the course, Improving Health Care Quality for the
In 1997, Laffel and two partners, Harry Harrington and Dennis McShane, MD, founded Clinical Solutions, a Menlo Park-based company for which Laffel served as president. Clinical Solutions created and licensed algorithmic content for use in nurse triage call centers.[citation needed]
By 2003, Clinical Solutions' triage algorithms had become widely used around the world and provided advice to more than 40 million callers. Deployments of Clinical Solutions' content included NHS Direct, a toll-free national service provided to British citizens by the British National Health Service, Queensland Health (Australia), and the New South Wales Ambulance Service (Australia).[citation needed]
In conjunction with Priority Dispatch Corporation, Clinical Solutions also created a fully integrated 911-nurse triage product. The integrated product is being used by ambulance dispatch organizations in several countries.[citation needed]
Clinical Solutions was acquired by its primary licensor, CAS Services (UK) in 2006.[7]
Laffel joined
Education
PhD in Health Policy and Management from
The University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine, 1976 - 1980.[citation needed]
Tufts University, 1972 - 1976. Undergraduate degree in Biology and Psychology.[citation needed]
Training
Laffel completed a 3-year medical residency in
References
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- ^ "Bridgepoint's CAS Services acquires Clinical Solutions of the US | Bridgepoint". Archived from the original on 2011-07-20. Retrieved 2010-07-06.
- ^ "Executive Team – Physicians and Professionals Supporting our EHR – Practice Fusion". practicefusion.com. Archived from the original on 2010-03-06.
- PMID 8481190.