TORONTO – Dennis Giokas (pictured) has joined Alifor as chief product officer. He’ll oversee Alifor’s additional product growth and answer partnerships, leveraging his background in scaling-up digital well being and medical methods. He’ll lead the staff that’s defining performance, priorities, integration methods, and the product roadmap to information additional growth and world rollout.
Alifor is a medical working system for healthcare professionals that features AI scribes, clinician resolution help and workflow enchancment. Created by Markham, Ont.-physician Dr. Paul Forman, Alifor is EMR agnostic and works with a doctor’s current EMR.
Alifor’s Sensible Care Supervisor streamlines consumption by producing tailor-made pre-visit questions that improve medical context and feed straight into SOAP observe technology. Prime quality medical documentation is created with the built-in AI Scribe. SOAP notes, a Cumulative Affected person Profile and referral notes to specialists are additionally AI generated for straightforward and safe export.
For 14 years Dennis was chief know-how officer for Canada Well being Infoway. He oversaw the technical points of Infoway’s $2.2B digital well being funding. He led and revealed the trade main and award profitable EHRS Blueprint and a Privateness & Safety Blueprint. As well as, he headed up Infoway’s requirements growth group which labored with stakeholders, clinicians and worldwide requirements growth organizations to determine the requirements utilized in Canada for the EHR. Dennis most just lately led the group’s Digital Well being Innovation Ecosystem and Rising Expertise Teams.
For the previous 9 years Dennis has suggested over 60 start-ups, early-stage and progress corporations within the areas of enterprise and know-how imaginative and prescient, technique, enterprise mannequin, worth proposition, digital well being ecosystem alignment, and channel partnership growth. He’s at the moment a volunteer mentor on the Well being Innovation Hub (College of Toronto). Beforehand he was a volunteer digital well being advisor at MaRS Discovery District (Toronto) and an innovation dealer with the Ontario Ministry of Well being and Lengthy-Time period Care.
Dennis can also be CIO Advisor with Medchart, a affected person empowered well being knowledge alternate platform deployed in Canada and US. He’s a senior board advisor at Cardea Well being which is a platform to attach specialists to medical trials and makes use of AI to pre-screen affected person candidates.
Over the past 21 years, Dennis has been an impartial director on 5 Boards. Most just lately he was a board director on the Ontario Institute of Most cancers Analysis and co-chair of the Audit, Finance and Danger committee. He served on the Digital Well being Canada Board, member of and chaired the Normal Meeting (representing Canada) at SNOMED Worldwide and was an impartial director on the HL7 Worldwide Board.
Dennis was born in and lived most of his life within the USA. He additionally has Canadian citizenship. He’s a graduate of Boston College with a Grasp of Science in Laptop Science. He’s at the moment residing within the Toronto, Ontario space together with his spouse Marion (doctor, well being coverage advisor and digital well being advisor) and doodle Riley.
For additional data please see alifor.ca.
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