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Edward Fotsch, M.D.'s professional experience spans health care, information technology and business start up/syndication commerce. Dr. Fotsch has over ten years experience in the clinical practice of medicine and was the founding chairman of a Northern California IPA with 200+ physician members. Since 1995, Doctor Fotsch has lead organizations that provide Internet-based healthcare applications, networks and communications services. In 1996 he founded, was CEO and Board Chair for Metis LLC, one of the first Internet Health firms in the country. Healtheon purchased Metis in 1998 and Dr. Fotsch served as a senior executive until joining Medem in 1999. Dr. Fotsch authored Planning and Implementing Your Healthcare Internet Strategy, published by Atlantic Information Services, copyright 1996, and has also been published repeatedly in the area of online professional liability, including a chapter on eHealth liability in Medical Malpractice, A Physician's Sourcebook, 2005 Humana Press Inc. He is a frequent conference speaker in healthcare IT and is regularly quoted as an expert in physician Internet and IT issues by the national press including the NY Times, Chicago Tribune, AP, Reuters and the Wall Street Journal Dr. Fotsch graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Marquette University in Milwaukee, WI, where he earned a bachelor's degree in biology. He received his medical degree from the Medical College of Wisconsin and completed his postgraduate work at the University of California, San Francisco. Dr. Fotsch is currently the CEO of Medem Inc., the corporation founded in 1999 by six of the nations medical societies and the AMA to deliver the premier secure online physician communications network in the country. In this capacity he lead the formation of the eRisk Guidelines- the national standards adopted by liability carriers, medical societies and state boards governing provider-patient communication online. Dr. Fotsch is 48 years old and lives in Sausalito CA with his wife and four children; two sets of twins. | 