- Physician
- Healthcare Informaticist and Anticipist
- Motivational Speaker
- Professional Entertainer
Speaking Subjects:
- The Practice of Medicine in a World of Real-Time Data
- Balancing One’s Professional Life with One’s Dreams vs. Career Change
- Cultural and Political Challenges Associated with Computerized Provider Order Entry
- The Chief Medical Information Officer – a Key Emerging Role in Healthcare
- Physicians in the Corporate World – A Collision of Cultures or Successful Symbiosis
Dr. Sam Bierstock has had many careers, and he has excelled in each of them.
He has been an electrical engineer, a practicing physician, a pioneer of medical office information systems application, an independent healthcare information systems consultant, a healthcare informaticist specializing in the adoption of computerized provider order entry and clinical transformation, a much publicized author of articles in the professional literature, an active speaker, and professional entertainer and musician.
He has published close to 100 articles and delivered as many presentations, appeared on national television and radio shows, and been featured in such national publications asPEOPLE Magazine and USA Today..
In the early 1980’s, Dr. Sam recognized the future importance of emerging computertechnologies to the importance of healthcare delivery. He was a pioneer in the applicationof computer technology to medical practices, and helped many of his colleagues selectand install office computer systems. After 15 years in practice, he founded ComputerConsultants for Professionals, Inc, providing consultative services for medical officecomputerization. Recognizing the evolution of hospital information systems in the1990’s, Dr. Sam turned his attention to hospital based information systems, withparticular interest in the challenges associated with physician adaptation to developingtechnologies. He has continued to publish and speak extensively to professional organizations on subjects that include not only the applications of current technologies,but “what’s coming next” and “what’s coming after what’s coming next”.
Dr. Sam has many interests in life and does not believe that a successful professional career should prevent one from pursuing one’s dreams. A professional musician as well as a physician, he combined his passion for educating the public about the pitfalls of managed care in its early years with his musical skills, and delighted audiences in more than 40 states with his traveling show of outstanding professional musicians with his band, “Dr. Sam and the Managed Care Blues Band”. Their act, and CDs combine satirical lyrics with great music to make political and educational points. To date, more than 20,000 of Dr. Sam’s have sold, and it ranked as the 2nd best independent blues CD on amazon.com for more than 6 weeks.
Dr. Sam practiced independently for more than 15 years, and founded several of his own companies. He served for 3 years as an executive corporate officer for one of the leading vendors of healthcare information systems. Always interested in the cultural and political challenges specific to physicians, he has published and spoken about his innovative and instructive views of the challenges faced by physicians who change careers and enter the corporate world – and the adjustments to be made by both the physician-employee and the corporate-employer to this unique employer-employee relationship.
Contact Information:
Samuel R. Bierstock, MD, BSEE
417 Palm Trail
Delray Beach, FL 33483
561 243-3673 Tel
561 243-0621 Fax
drsamb@bellsouth.net
drsam@managedmusic.com
Tax ID 650512481
Checks may be made payable to: Samuel R. Bierstock, MD