Alan Schwartz

Current

• Founder and Principal at Institute for Practice and Provider Performance Improvement, Inc.
• Senior Unix/Linux Consulting Sysadmin at Alan Schwartz Associates, LLC
• Associate Professor at University of Illinois at Chicago

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Education

• University of California, Berkeley - Walter A. Haas School of Business
• University of California, Berkeley
• University of California, Berkeley

• Van Nuys High School
• Portola Jr. High

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Alan Schwartz’s Summary

Associate Professor of Clinical Decision Making and Director of Research, Department of Medical Education, University of Illinois at Chicago. Author of "Medical Decision Making: A Physician's Guide" (Cambridge University Press).

Founder and Principal of the Institute for Practice and Provider Performance Improvement (I3PI), Inc., specializing in customized standardized patient evaluations for practices and providers designed to help improve healthcare delivery, risk management and reimbursement.

Consulting Unix system administrator since 1990 for university departments and ISPs.
Author or co-author of 4 technical books, published by O'Reilly and Associates, Inc.
Co-author of World Bank Handbook on Information Security for Developing Nations.
LPIC-2 Certified Linux System Administrator

Alan Schwartz’s Specialties:

Decision psychology
Quantitative data analysis
Organizational analysis
Unix/Linux system and network administration

Alan Schwartz’s Experience

• Founder and Principal

  Institute for Practice and Provider Performance Improvement, Inc.

  (Hospital & Health Care industry)

  August 2008 — Present (4 months)

  I3PI provides customized evaluations for practices and providers designed to help improve healthcare delivery, risk management and reimbursement. We produce and analyze standardized simulated patient visits. In our simulated visits, a trained actor presents with a clinical problem typical of patients seen in a practice, and collects data from their interactions with every member of the staff. Using our proprietary software, we combine checklists, audio recordings and provider generated medical records to analyze billing compliance, documentation accuracy, customer service, and quality of care.

• Senior Unix/Linux Consulting Sysadmin

  Alan Schwartz Associates, LLC

  (International Trade and Development industry)

  2005 — Present (3 years)

  Teleconsultant for advanced linux/unix system administration and configuration issues (DNS/email/LDAP/security/etc), working directly with clients including Fortune 500 companies, educational institutions, and other organizations.

• Associate Professor

  University of Illinois at Chicago

  (Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Research industry)

  August 1997 — Present (11 years 4 months)

  Research in medical judgment and decision making; teaching in medical judgment and decision making, leadership in health professions, organizational analysis, research design, and quantitative data analysis.

Alan Schwartz’s Education

• University of California, Berkeley - Walter A. Haas School of Business

  M.S., Organizational Behavior and Industrial Relations, 1995 — 1997

• University of California, Berkeley

  Ph.D., Psychology, 1992 — 1997

• University of California, Berkeley

  B.A., Cognitive Science & Women's Studies, 1987 — 1992

• Van Nuys High School

  1985 — 1987

• Portola Jr. High

  1982 — 1985