Paul Kleeberg, MD, FAAFP, FHIMSS
7811 128^th Street W.
Apple Valley, Minnesota 55124
612-655-8238
Email: paul@pkmd.com

Education:

University of Minnesota Family Medicine Residency, Saint Louis Park, Minnesota

July 93

Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California

M.D. June 90

University of Rochester, Rochester, New York

Pre-Med requirements, 81 - 83

University of Rochester, Rochester, New York

Bachelor of Arts, Psychology, May 77

Additional Training:

American Medical Informatics Association 10x10 Program, Oregon Health Sciences University, 10/05

EpicCare Ambulatory Basics, Masters I, and Masters II, Epic Systems, 9/03

Fundamentals of Management for Family Physicians, American Academy of Family Physicians, 10/01

Licensure and Certification:

Certified Professional in Health Information Technology, 10 - present

American Board of Family Medicine Certification, 95 - Present

Recertified 02, 09

Minnesota State License, 91 - Present

National Board of Medical Examiners, 91

Hospital Privileges:

HealthEast Care System, Saint Paul, Minnesota,  9/07 - 6/09

Mercy Hospital, Coon Rapids, Minnesota,  7/97 - 12/06

Saint Peter Community Hospital, Saint Peter, Minnesota,  9/93 - 12/98

Employment:

The Itinerant CMIO (http://iCMIO.com), Apple Valley MN, Minnesota:  6/09 - present

President and CEO:  6/09 - present

Firm focuses on helping hospitals, clinics and individual providers take advantage of their EHR investment to improve quality, efficiency and safety of care.  Services include system selection, readiness assessment, workflow redesign, physician engagement, trouble-shooting stalled implementations, clinical decision support implementation, and end-user optimization.  We also assist hospitals and providers understand the qualifications and requirements of “meaningful use of an EHR” as defined by CMS and the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, so that they can create a roadmap to achieving meaningful and receive the incentive dollars defined by the act.

Clinical Director, REACH (http://khaREACH.org)- The HIT REC for MN & ND: 4/10 - 2/12

Provide clinical leadership for the health information technology regional extension center for Minnesota and North Dakota funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment act of 2009.  Project targeted to assist primary care providers, critical access hospitals and hospitals with fewer than 50 beds to adopt, implement and meaningfully use electronic health records.  Share responsibility with the project director for program design, creation and implementation.  These responsibilities include staff recruitment and training, primary care provider and hospital recruitment, curriculum development, pricing structure design, and representing the REACH program to the community.

HealthEast Care System, Saint Paul, Minnesota,  consultant: 1/07 - 10/07, employee: 10/07 - 6/09

Medical Director, Clinical Decision Support - Department of Health Informatics:  10/07 - 6/09

Lead the team responsible for the build, maintenance and content in the nurse and physician inpatient and emergency department order entry systems using McKesson Horizon Expert Orders.  Lead the team responsible for the Horizon Emergency Care product which includes ED documentation and physician order entry.  Lead the team responsible for the migration of paper-based order sets to electronic order outlines embedding evidence from Zynx.  Responsible for maintaining the currency and refining the design of electronic and paper-based order sets in order to help HealthEast reach its goal of being the benchmark for quality in the Twin Cities by 2010. Maintain a close working relationship with the Chief Medical Quality Officer to assure that the goals of informatics and quality are synchronized.  Designed, implemented and maintain a change control process for the clinical decision support (CDS) tools and interventions that impact physicians’ ability to review information and enter orders.  Design tools and processes in the inpatient electronic health record (EHR) to help HealthEast enhance its core measures and public reporting scores.  Participate in state and national forums designed to improve patient safety, quality outcomes, avoid "never events," promote electronic health networks and optimize the use of electronic health records.

Independent Consultant - Department of Health Informatics:   1/07 - 10/07

Assisted HealthEast Care System in the migration of paper-based site-specific order sets to system-wide order sets incorporating Zynx evidence.  Worked with the Chief Medical Quality Officer to design tools to achieve system-wide key performance improvement targets.  Worked with service-line collaborative groups to identify data needs for the creation of documentation tools for data collection and registry creation for data analysis.

Allina Hospitals and Clinics, Minneapolis, Minnesota,  4/95 - 12/06

Medical Director, Clinical Decision Support - Office of Quality, Safety and Technology:  1/05 - 12/06

Led the design and implementation of clinical decision support (CDS) interventions in Allina’s 2007 Davies Award winning implementation of an Electronic Health Record for the inpatient, ambulatory, and patient portal components of Epic’s electronic health record and revenue cycle system.  Led in the construction and maintenance of system-wide order sets designed to improve quality, safety and efficiency of care.  Created and managed the change request process for content within the ambulatory and inpatient clinical documentation and order-entry tools.  Designed tools and processes in the EHR to help Allina improve its core measures and public reporting scores.  Continued to review and approve medical content for Allina’s web sites to assure that it conformed to currently accepted principles for publishing medical content and that it reflected late-breaking medical information.  Continued to practice as a family physician.

Physician Consultant, System Design - Excellian:  9/03 - 1/05

Took a lead role in designing and implementing the clinical components of the ambulatory and patient portal modules of Epic’s automated medical record and revenue cycle system.  Interacted with ambulatory clinics and physicians throughout the system to educate them about the system and seek their input and feedback in design decisions.  Had primary responsibility for the design and creation of clinical documentation tools, ambulatory role out schedules, coordination and design of physician training modules and methods for preloading information from paper and other electronic record systems into Epic.  Took the lead in coordinating the other physician consultants on both the inpatient and outpatient teams.  Continued to review and approve medical content for Allina’s web sites to assure that it conformed to currently accepted principles for publishing medical content and that it reflected late-breaking medical information.  Continued to practice as a family physician.

Physician Advisor - Information Services:  4/95 - 9/03

Worked with information services to establish a presence for Allina on the Internet.  Led the selection and approval of medical resources on three Internet sites for Allina Health System directed to health plan members (http://www.medica.com), patients (http://www.allina.com) and the general population (http://www.medformation.com).  Designed content and participated in the implementation and ongoing maintenance of Logician - an ambulatory care automated medical record system.  Designed data reporting tools to improve care and efficiency at Abbott Northwestern Hospital using Eclipsys Continuum 2000 - an inpatient hospital information system.  Designed and led physician CME sessions designed to educate them about information technology tools.  Served as a liaison between Information Services and the physician community.  Continued to practice as a family physician.

Saint Peter Clinic, Ltd., Saint Peter, Minnesota,  9/93 - 6/97

Family Physician:

Practiced the full spectrum of family medicine in a single specialty Family Practice group that was the only clinic in a rural Minnesota town of 9600.  Provided full coverage for Saint Peter’s 24-bed community hospital.  Practice included outpatient obstetrics, pediatrics, geriatrics, adult and adolescent care, inpatient general medical, post-operative general surgical, orthopedic and obstetrical care, inpatient management of ICU patients, management and delivery of labor patients, solo coverage of hospital emergency room, county coroner responsibilities while on call, and staffing the health service at Gustavus Adolphus College.

Select Professional Activities:

Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society:

Enterprise Information Systems Steering Committee, 09 - present

Chair, CPOE Workgroup, 09 - present

Clinical Decision Support Task Force, 08 - present

Physicians' IT Symposium Committee, 09, 10, 11

Chair, Patient Safety and Quality Outcomes Steering Committee, 08 - 09

Patient Safety and Quality Outcomes Steering Committee, 06 - 08

Annual Conference Education Committee, 07 - 09

Reviewer, HIMSS Conference and Exhibition, Community Health Initiatives, 06

Minnesota e-Health Initiative:

MN e-Health Advisory Committee, 08 - present

Co-Chair, Meaningful Use and Exchange Workgroup, 09 - present.

Co-Chair, Effective Use of EHRs Workgroup, 08 - 09.

Member, HIT Implementation Plan Workgroup, 07 - 08

Member, Standards, Interoperability and EHR Certification Workgroup, 07 - 08

Normandale Community College:

Leadership Council for HIT Training Program, 10 - present

Minnesota Community Measurement:

Health Information Technology Measurement Workgroup, 09 - 10

Minnesota Epic User Group:

Co-Chair, Clinical Decision Support SIG 06 - 07

Ambulatory MD SIG 05 - 06

Research:

Co-investigator, A Community-shared Clinical Abstract to Improve Care, Grant Number: UC1 HS16155, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, 05 - 06

Select Presentations:

“Understanding the EHR Incentive Final Rules” REACH Webinar 7/10.

“Meaningful Use for Critical Access Hospitals” TASC-HIT Webinar Series 4/10.

“Minnesota Guide to Effective Use of EHRs” Midwest HIMSS 2009 Fall Technology Conference 11/09.

“Effective Use of the EHR Using Clinical Decision Support” Minnesota e-Health Pre Summit Workshop 6/09.

“Successful Implementation of Clinical Decision Support” Health Informatics Seminar, University of Minnesota 4/09.

“Using Clinical Decision Support to Optimize Your EHR” Minnesota E-Health Summit 6/08.

“Hospital Implementations at Two Systems: Benefits and Lessons Learned” 2007 Building for Excellence, Stratis Health 8/07.

“Creating A Governance System for Rules and Alerts” Epic User Group Meeting, Epic Systems, 9/06.

“An Enterprise Approach to Managing Recalled or Discontinued Medications” Epic User Group Meeting, Epic Systems, 9/06.

Publications:

Kleeberg P. “Accessing Health Information on the Web”, Minnesota Physician 2002 Dec

Kleeberg P. “Information Management”, Family Medicine: Principles and Practice, published by Springer-Verlag, ed. by Robert B. Taylor, M.D, 1997.

Kleeberg P. “The Internet and the World Wide Web Implications for Health Care”, The Medical Journal of Allina 1996 V. No.3

Kleeberg P, Masys DR, “Telecommunications”, Computers in Clinical Practice published by the American College of Physicians, ed. by Jerome A. Osheroff, M.D., F.A.C.P. 1995

Kleeberg P. “Fam-Med: An Internet Resource for Family Physicians”, Proc 17th Ann Symp Comp Applic Med Care (SCAMC 93) 1993;17:890

Kleeberg P. “Medical Uses of the Internet”, Journal of Medical Systems 1993 Dec;17(6):363-6

Review Activities:

Reviewer, “Improving Medication Use and Outcomes with Clinical Decision Support: A Step-by-Step Guide”, published by HIMSS Press, ed. by Jerome Osheroff M.D., 2009

Editorial Advisory Board, Family Practice News, 02 - 08

Reviewer, Archives of Family Medicine, 98 - 00

Reviewer, Journal of Family Practice 98 - 02

Reviewer, Allina Medical Journal 95 - 98

Technical Evaluator, High Performance Computing and Communications Group for Area 4 of the 1993 High Performance Computing and Communications Broad Agency Announcement

Last updated: Wednesday, 28-Jul-2010 21:21:57 CDT
Printed: Saturday, 31-Jul-2010 11:07:57 CDT