Mission Statement
To develop and promote, through education and training, the best practices and standards covering the fundamental principles related to healthcare cyber security and related disciplines necessary to protect personal health information.
Barry P Chaiken, MD – President
Barry P. Chaiken, MD, MPH has over 25 years’ experience in healthcare information technology, clinical transformation, and business intelligence. He is currently President of DocsNetwork Ltd. and previously worked with the National Institutes of Health, U.K’s. National Health Service, McKesson, Infor, and Salesforce/Tableau.
Chaiken is the author of the recently released Navigating the Code: How Technology Transforms the Patient-Physician Journey, a book on healthcare information technology and its potential impact on quality, access, and cost of care.
During his career Chaiken provided expertise in quality and patient safety to provider, payor, and life science organizations helping them utilize information technology to improve clinical and administrative activities. He has served as guest lecturer and consultant on topics including patient safety, clinician adoption of information technology, quality improvement, and healthcare analytics. Chaiken also assisted hospitals and technology firms in the creation of medical software products and services.
Chaiken served as a Healthcare Advisory Board member to numerous organizations as head of DocsNetwork, his own boutique healthcare IT consulting company. He has delivered more than 60 CME lectures, and served on the editorial board of the journal of Patient Safety and Quality Healthcare. Chaiken wrote a column on technology and quality for the journal Patient Safety and Quality Healthcare. He also served as Conference Chair of the annual Digital Healthcare Conference and contributed to WTN Media’s online publications.
Chaiken received his medical degree from Downstate Medical Center, his masters in public health degree in health services administration from the Harvard School of Public Health, and his bachelors of arts degree in psychology from the University at Albany. He acquired his specialty training from the Centers for Disease Control as an Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer and from the New Jersey State Department of Health as a preventive medicine resident. He is board certified in General Preventive Medicine and Public Health as well as Health Care Quality Management. Chaiken is an Overseas Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine.
Chaiken served as a Board member (2006-2010), Board Liaison to HIMSS Europe (2006-2009), and Board Chair (2009-2010), and continues his involvement as a Fellow of the Health Information Management and Systems Society (HIMSS). He is a guest lecturer in both graduate and undergraduate level courses in healthcare information technology at Boston University’s Questrom School of Management.
John Giantsidis, JD – Vice President
John Giantsidis is the President of CyberActa, a boutique consultancy empowering medical device, digital health, and pharmaceutical companies in their regulatory, cybersecurity, privacy, data integrity, and commercialization endeavors. With deep regulatory, technology, quality, and legal background, a broad range of experience over a 27-year career, and a sharp focus on tackling emerging risks, John can provide his clients with strategic yet pragmatic perspectives on addressing critical risks in a business-focused and impactful manner. John advises clients on matters spanning the product life cycle, from product development and clinical trials, through the FDA, MHRA, EMA, PMDA, and TGA premarket review processes, to post-market compliance.
John is the Vice Chair of the Florida Bar’s Committee on Technology and a Cyber Aux with the U.S. Marine Corps. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Clark University, a Juris Doctor from the University of New Hampshire School of Law, and a Master of Engineering in Cybersecurity Policy and Compliance from George Washington University. He frequently writes and speaks on a broad range of current issues facing the MedTech and life sciences industries such as building privacy and cybersecurity in medical devices, the evolving regulatory landscape in this rapid pace of technology-driven change, and addressing the challenges of product development, testing, generation of evidence, proof of value, implementation and adoption of novel medical and health technologies.