Louis Cornacchia, M.D. is President and CEO of Doctations Inc. Dr. Cornacchia is a graduate of Columbia College (82) and NYU School of Medicine (87). He is a board certified neurosurgeon with a practice in Nassau County, New York. The concepts underlying Doctations were developed by Dr. Cornacchia over a nine-year period of research and development. He is dedicated to improving healthcare by providing Doctations services for doctors and a portal called iMedicalHome for patients. He believes that technology can overcome many of the problems facing healthcare today, including soaring costs, physician discontent and the medical malpractice crisis. Doctations is the first step toward that solution.
Joachim M. Do is the Chief Technology Officer at Doctations, joining the company in 2006. He received his Bachelor´s degree in Computer Science from SUNY at Buffalo in 1997. He has had extensive experience developing cutting edge internet technologies, including pioneering Web switch appliances with Arrowpoint Communications, a startup company later acquired by Cisco Systems. He has a track record of leading teams to successfully implement various complex n-tiered, eCommerce-enabled rich internet applications.
Mr. Peter Benton is the Director of the Patient Advisory Board. He was born in Minnesota and has lived in the Midwest and New York City. Mr. Benton received a BS in Computer Science from the City College of New York, School of Engineering and an MBA from Bradley University in Peoria, Illinois. He has worked as a business analyst for Caterpillar Tractor Company, a senior consultant and manager for Arthur Andersen & Company, a developer of electronic and online information products, executive for planning and business development and Chief Scientist for McGraw-Hill, Inc. For nearly two decades, he has been a self-employed service architect and development consultant for a range of Internet-based businesses and social service organizations. Committed to cooperative action, he was a five-year member of the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) Board of Standards Review and is a long-time member of the Park Slope Food Coop, The Park Slope Singers and the Three Arrows Cooperative Society. He is co-author of the book The Cost and Price of the Customer?s Experience and scripted a video Training for Feeding Assistants (nursing home staff) published by Innovations Services. Mr. Benton prepared grant requests that raised more than $1 million for two nursing home chains. He has been a healthcare proxy, proxy consultant and estate administrator for several people with chronic and terminal health problems.
Michael Do joined Doctations in February of 2008 and is currently Director of Quality Assurance. After graduating from the University of Massachusetts, Boston with a degree in Mathematics, he relocated to New York. He has Quality Assurance experience working within the IT field and directing and working with teams within the U.S. and also overseas. Michael’s previous experience has included work in both the Education and Legal industries.
Barry Edwards started his career in healthcare information technology in 1993. He worked as Technical Support Manager for WebMD, leading a team of 13 technicians implementing Medlink's Get Claim X electronic billing software in physicians’ offices throughout New York and New Jersey. Following his experience at WebMD, he joined a team responsible for the implementation medical offices throughout Queens and Long Island that make up the Queens Long Island Medical Group (QLIMG) in their QDOCS EMR software, a proprietary IDX system which included Careflow (Practice Management) and Surescripts (eprescribing) modules. Barry then joined Continuum Health Partners, the Corporate Head of Beth Israel, Roosevelt and St. Luke´s Hospitals and Long Island College Hospital, where he managed the implementation of their IDX/GE Careflow system called PRISM. In 2007, he began working for eHealth Solutions, a practice management software company, implementing and supporting 9 rehabilitation and long term care facilities. He then went on to work for the Visiting Nurse Service of New York, training nurses, administrators and therapists on their Patient Care Record Suite (PCRS), scheduling and lab portal systems before joining the Doctations family in January 2009. Barry graduated from Hunter College, CUNY with a BS in Healthcare and minor in Computer Science.