Biography

Dr. Josep M. Picas. M.D., at the University of Barcelona. Diploma at the ESADE Business School of Barcelona. He is the President of the European Association of Healthcare IT Managers. He began his career in 1974 as a Medical Doctor, he was appointed deputy Director of the Hospital de l’Esperança, in Barcelona, in 1979-84. Medical Director of Municipal Institute of Health Care Services from 1985 to 2004 (Public HMO in Barcelona). He has been Director of the Primary Care of Barcelona City, from 2004 to 2007. CIO at the Hospital del Mar in Barcelona in 2008 and CIO at the Hospital de St. Pau in Barcelona, Spain from 2009 to 2012. Now he is beginning a new project with 2 University Hospitals of Barcelona, pharmaceutical industries and technological companies applying ICT and PBM to healthcare processes under the model of shared savings He has worked actively on the development of disease management programs, computerised information health systems. He participates on Boards and Steering Committees at local and international level. He has belonged to the Board of the International Disease Management Alliance, New Jersey (US) and the Medical Records Institute, Boston (US)

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Research Interest

health and health care