Master of Science (M.Sc.)

Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.)

Providing technological and regulatory advice to this innovative company as it establishes a “Virtual Integrated Delivery Network” destined to be become a leader in effective, low cost and personalized healthcare delivery and support for underserved medical communities.

Member, Strategic Board of Advisors

Citus Health is bringing breakthrough technology to home healthcare. It is our mission to modernize an industry saddled with outdated processes, and give patients reliable, convenient, user-friendly medical technology while reducing the provider's bottom line.

Co-Founder

Co-founded and served as CTO of one of the world's first cloud-based EHR platforms. Sold to COMSYS in 2001.

co-Founder and CTO

Investor

Investor, Member of the Board of Directors

Poliwogg connects private sector investors with pre-vetted innovative healthcare investment opportunities. Instead of a shotgun approach, Poliwogg encourages precision investing for the modern crowd equity era, with a focus on specific conditions, diagnostics, and threapeutics.

Interoperability is now a major topic in healthcare circles and Caristix is in the business of doing the heavy lifting of enabling EHRs and other systems to connect with each other.

Member of the Board of Directors

Served as Strategic Adviser and Entrepreneur-in-Residence (EIR) for AHIP's Innovation Lab ("AHIP IL"). AHIP's IL is a 26,000 sq ft facility located at Chicago's West Loop which is an invaluable resource for member health plans to use for ideation and implementation of innovative initiatives. Shahid helps the IL run Solution Working Groups for AHIP's individual payers and helps incorporate the broader healthcare ecosystem of providers, manufacturers, MedTech, and the Lab's trusted and crucial Inaugural Partners.

AHIP IL believes that the major problems in healthcare now requires significant collaboration by and between health plans, health systems, innovative companies, pharmaceutical manufacturers, retail pharmacies, and most importantly patients.

Entrepreneur in Residence and Strategic Adviser for the Innovation Lab

Co-founded this innovative startup focused on helping health systems create new profit centers in their physician practices. We create digital health tools and platforms that use cutting edge science and clinical expertise to help physicians work with patients to lose weight and improve overall wellness.

Advising new DoD and VA founded organization on formation of open innovations and open source software for healthcare industry.

Chairman, Strategic Board of Advisors

Angel investor in this innovative real estate tech firm.

Co-founded and served as CTO of this digital healthcare startup that created a Meaningful Use Certified Electronic Health Records (EHR) solution for small to medium sized medical offices. simplifyMD merged with Azalea Health in 2014.

Advising R&D startups through commercialization assistance programs (SBIR/STTR) promoting movement of ideas and technologies through a support network and onto new markets sustained by strategic introductions, follow-on capital, acquisitions, and job creation.

Health Sciences and Technology Advisor

I founded and run one the web's oldest healthcare IT blogs and media properties where the daily conversations of dozens of premium health technology bloggers is curated into one convenient site.

Founder & Publisher

Helped develop technology strategy for a new healthcare products and services division of COMSYS after the purchase of Physia intellectual property assets.

SVP Healthcare Technology Strategy

As a contractor for Northrop Grumman, led the technical team responsible for the development of the American Red Cross National Biomedical Computer Systems (NBCS) Releases 1.0 and 1.1. The Red Cross NBCS system is the largest automated blood collection and distribution system in the world, responsible for delivery of over 50% of the blood supply in the United States. NBCS is deployed over a heterogeneous, distributed client/server environment with IBM AIX and Microsoft NT servers, and host-based and Microsoft Windows clients. Responsible for team leadership, software specifications, software development (ANSI C/C++ and UNIX Shell scripts), design reviews, code reviews, code management, scheduling, interviewing, and hiring.

Led the technical team responsible for the development and deployment of several client/server components of NBCS Release 1.1. These include medium-size applications that perform centralized reporting services (using Web/CGI applications, Crystal Reports and Delphi)

Senior System Architect and Lead Software Engineer

Worked as civilian researcher at the Naval Surface Warfare Center in White Oak, MD (which later moved to Dahlgren, VA). Developed C++ software on a team project. C++ application was for ground-based UNIX workstations to perform simulation and testing of ship-based computer software and hardware. 

Developed MS-Windows and OSF Motif software tools in C++ and Borland Pascal to perform reverse engineering and analysis of over fifty megabytes of code and data used on AEGIS-class cruisers and destroyers. Required complete database analysis and design specifications, communication with end-users, downsizing to client/server paradigm, programming the software, and documentation.

Enhanced programs in FORTRAN and C to support underwater (submarine) vessel simulation projects.

Worked on MARS project for support of low-level networking  to enhance war games and hi-res 3D graphics for fleet combat simulation programs.

Wrote and had published technical reports and highlights. Served as chairman 

Computer Scientist

Netspective is a provider of technology strategy, sales and marcomm expertise, as well as architecture and engineering solutions to government agencies/contractors, systems integrators, health IT vendors, med device manufacturers, and life sciences customers. 

From ideation to execution, we extend your enterprise in these ways:

* Leadership Augmentation via Fractional CTO Services, Roadmapping & Planning, plus Mentoring & Coaching
* Extend R&D teams through Tech Strategy Development, Outsourced Coding & Engineering, Outsourced QA & Validation, and Regulatory Strategy development
* Extend Product Marketing teams with Ideation, Requirements & Prototyping, Product Management, and Market Validation
* Extend Sales groups via Market Education, Sales Strategy Development, Social Sales & Collaboration, and Lead Gen Assistance

All of our capabilities are centered around deep technical talent and senior executive experience that can applied to help create high margin, high revenue, and high v

Shahid Shah

Inventor and Entrepreneurial CTO focused on Innovation Lifecycle Management