Doug Smith
The President of W.D. Smith & Associates, Doug has worked for over 30 years in ambulatory care, hospital, pharmaceutical and insurance settings. He has served in a variety of senior management and consulting capacities with Kaiser–Permanente, Ernst & Whiney, HealthAmerica, Deloitte & Touche, ClinTrials (a pharmaceutical clinical trials company), and Martin’s Point (a non-profit insurance/medical delivery company).
A central theme in his career has been the use of technology to reintegrate, improve quality and control the cost of healthcare.
In the mid 1990s, Doug represented Vanderbilt University Medical Center on the Tennessee Governor’s Roundtable for Medical Communications Technology. More recently, he served on the Maine health information exchange technical advisory and steering groups. Doug was a co-founder of the New England Telehealth Consortium. This organization was awarded $ 24.6 million by the FCC to build a private network and demonstrate the effectiveness of the exchange of clinical information among over 520 sites in New England.
During Doug’s consulting career he founded or rehabilitated over a dozen health care companies, and led large technology integration projects for Blue Cross Blue Shield Plans and several major Medical Centers. After 7 years as a senior executive with Martin’s Point, Doug has returned to the consulting world by launching W. D. Smith & Associates, a consulting firm that focuses on deploying technology and building data exchanges for health care organizations.
Doug is a member and frequent guest speaker for various health care and IT associations. He is an adjunct faculty member at the University of Southern Maine, Muskie Institute where he teaches a course on strategy and information systems. He has served as a member of advisory councils for Toshiba, Symantec and Microsoft.
