Stasia Kahn

Current

• Lecturer at Northwestern University
• Vice President at Northern Illinois Physicians For Connectivity
• Co-Owner at Fox Prairie Medical Group

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Education

• University of Illinois College of Medicine
• University of Illinois

Connections

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Industry

Medical Practice

Stasia Kahn’s Summary

Stasia Kahn is a primary care internist who has dedicated her professional career to caring for her patients compassionately and to the best of her ability. She believes that is it possible, and she is striving to achieve a fully operational healthcare system in her lifetime which she defines as:
Consumer centric
Adapt at treating acute and chronic conditions as well as fostering wellness
Has a sustainable business model
Achieves harmony in work flow
Ensures that relevant health information is available at the point of care
Implements technology wisely
Acts on plans of care for individuals and is proactive in improving care for populations of patients
Allows consumers to access their clinical data
Is interoperable with healthcare institutions with whom they share protected healthcare information.

Just as the entire spectrum of health and disease from puberty to aged interests her, applied clinical medical informatics is her passion including ambulatory and acute episodes of care, the means to share healthcare data electronically in a private and secure fashion between healthcare providers, engaging consumers in the use of personal health records tools and improving the quality of medical care using decision support.

Stasia Kahn’s Specialties:

Use of standards to share protected healthcare information electronically including pioneering the use of the Continuity of Care Record and PDF/Healthcare.

Exporting quality data from EMR to data wharehouse

Technology Diffusion of Personal Health Records Tools

Stasia Kahn’s Experience

• Lecturer

  Northwestern University

  (Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

  2006 — Present (3 years)

  Lecturer of Medical Informatics for Masters Degree Program in Medical Informatics

• Vice President

  Northern Illinois Physicians For Connectivity

  (Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Information Services industry)

  2005 — Present (4 years)

  Northern Illinois Physicians For Connectivity (NIPFC) is a Regional Health Information Organization (RHIO) located in the western suburbs of Chicago. NIPFC is an Illinois Corporation comprised of six provider groups. Each provider group is represented on the NIPFC Board of Directors. NIPFC's mission is to improve patient safety through the use of healthcare information technology and the vision is to motivate physician practices to adopt electronic health records to improve the quality of patient care, encourage more efficient sharing of healthcare information and encourage patient ownership of medical information.

• Co-Owner

  Fox Prairie Medical Group

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Medical Practice industry)

  April 2003 — Present (6 years 4 months)

  3 Person Digital Ambulatory Internal Medicine Practice

Stasia Kahn’s Education

• University of Illinois College of Medicine

  1981 — 1998

  Activities and Societies:

  James Scholar

• University of Illinois

  Bachelors , Liberal Arts and Sciences , 1977 — 1981

  Activities and Societies:

  Phi Beta Kappa