Thomas Powell, MD MS

Thomas Powell, MD MS

Practicing physician.
Chief Medical Information Officer.
Healthcare consultant.

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About

Thomas Powell, MD MS, is a physician and executive Chief Medical Information Officer. Over three decades he has held senior medical and informatics leadership roles across academic medical centers, community hospitals, and integrated delivery networks.

He currently consults nationally to healthcare organizations, education and fellowship programs, and industry on the discipline of clinical informatics and the executive-physician. He fills interim executive roles, mentors aspiring physician informaticists, guides organizational change and optimization, and lectures at industry and academic conferences.

He currently lives in Little Rock, Arkansas.

The Diagnostician

The Diagnostician — book cover

Why American Healthcare Has Been Treated for the Wrong Disease — and the Executive-Physician Who Can Cure It

American healthcare is ill, and the symptoms are everywhere. For three decades the response has been treatment after treatment — each prescribed before the diagnosis was ever made. The Diagnostician applies the clinical method to the system itself, runs the workup, and arrives at the working diagnosis: the structural absence of an executive-physician trained to synthesize the whole.

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I consult to healthcare organizations, fellowship and education programs, and industry on the discipline of clinical informatics and the executive-physician. I take interim executive roles, advise on organizational change, mentor aspiring physician informaticists, and lecture at industry and academic conferences.

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Brief, infrequent notes on healthcare informatics, the executive-physician, and the work in progress. No regular cadence — you'll hear from me when there's something worth saying.