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Consultants
Ron Taubman, Ph.D.

   
Ron Taubman, Ph.D.
PragMedic Computing, Inc.
P.O. Box 4931
1100 Bright Hope
Breckenridge, CO 80424-4931
USA
Tel: (970)453-5725
Email: pragmed@ix.netcom.com

PragMedic Computing was established in 1982 by Ronald H. Taubman, Ph.D. and since then has provided a wide mix of services to Clinical Laboratories and other Hospital Medical Information Systems.

Based in Colorado, PragMedic Computing furnishes consulting, software, and programming assistance to facilities throughout the world. Dr. Taubman has devoted most of his professional career to addressing the unique requirements of the health care field. He has over thirty years experience in information systems including database conversion, project management, systems analysis, and problem identification with solutions, functional specification, system specification, system evaluation, and programming. He has specialized in health care information systems with medical content and is quite adept at translating between the "languages" of medicine, computer science, and business.

PragMedic Computing provides guidance and software to the medical community to make the most practical use of computers in the medical environment. Dr. Taubman has integrated multiple computer system through the use of HL7, ASTM, and various proprietary protocols. Designed, programmed and installed a surgical pathology system, a transfusion service information system, a microbiology system, and a blood bank donor record system as add on products to a laboratory information system.
 
Dr. Taubman's specialty is consulting to use computers to solve problems, not create them. He is able to interpret users "wants" and correlate them to their needs; improving system performance; and provide systems evaluation and selection advice. Dr. Taubman is a specialist for interfacing Clinical Laboratory Instruments to various Laboratory Information Systems and in the area of Blood Bank Software. For a government contractor, managed development and installation of a computerized outpatient medical records and scheduling system. Project manager for a local area network system to exchange data among hospital applications residing on various mainframes. Primary responsibility for development, maintenance, and configuration of an O.E.M. on-line laboratory information system installed in over 100 major hospitals. The system is turnkey with parameters to customize it for each hospital. Consulted with the hospitals to arrive at optimal solutions to their problems by analysis of their requirements.
 
Client List
 
American Association of Blood Banks
Bellevue Hospital, New York
Beth Israel Medical Center - New York
Boswell Memorial Hospital - Sun City, AZ
Charity Hospital of New Orleans
Children's Hospital - Columbus, Ohio
Community Health Computing - Houston, Texas
Damon Clinical Laboratories - New York
Edward W. Sparrow Hospital - Lansing, Michigan
Elmhurst Hospital, New York
Fairview Hospitals - Minneapolis, MN
Geisinger Medical Center, PA
Grace Hospital - Detroit, Michigan
Grady Hospital - Atlanta, GA
Harper Hospital - Detroit, Michigan
Henry Ford Hospital - Detroit, Michigan
Indiana University Hospital
International Clinical Laboratories - Nashville, Tennessee
Kaiser Foundation Hospitals - Northern California
Kennestone Hospital, Marietta, GA
Louisiana State University Medical Center
Mayo Medical Foundation - Rochester, Minnesota
MD Anderson Cancer Center, Texas
Medical Center Hospital of Norfolk
Medical College of Virginia
Mercy Hospital - Chicago, IL
Mercy Hospital - Pittsburgh, PA
Methodist Hospital - Memphis, Tennessee
Mount Sinai Medical Center - New York
New England Deaconess Hospital Center - Boston
New York Hospital - Cornell Medical Center
Norton-Kosair Children's Hospital - Louisville, Kentucky
Parkland Hospital - Dallas, TX
Providence St. Peter Hospital - Olympia, WA
Queens Hospital, New York
Sacred Heart, Eau Claire, WI
Scripps Memorial Hospital - La Jolla, California
St. Charles Medical Center, Bend, OR
St. Lukes Hospital, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
Sun Health, Sun City, Arizona
University of California - Los Angeles
University of California - San Francisco
University of Cincinnati
Vanderbilt Medical Center
Westchester Medical Center - NY
 
Abbott Laboratories
ADAC Healthcare Information Systems
Beckman/Coulter
Cerner Corporation
GE Medical Systems
Organon Teknika
Ortho Diagnostics
Triple G, Australia, Canada
National Health Service, UK