John C Brown MD, FACEP
Healthcare information technology that makes sense
John C Brown, MD is an emergency physician with a passion for healthcare information technology
that makes sense. When done right, technology improves efficiency, quality, safety, and
reimbursement. If done wrong, efficiency and reimbursement suffer placing patient safety at risk.
Understanding clinical workflow is the key to success.
Dr. Brown is the Chief Medical Information Officer at Baptist Memorial Health Care Corporation in
Memphis, TN serving 14 hospitals and over 20 clinics in West Tennessee, East Arkansas and North
Mississippi. He has served as the Director of Clinical Content for T-SystemEV and as the Director of
Clinical Informatics at T-System, the leader in EDIS and
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REFLECTIONS
Efficiency
Untold secrets for efficiency: automate & delegate.
- Jack Jul, 2007
Passion, Perfection & Team
Recognize your passion. Channel that passion for the common good.
Strive for perfection. Expect failure. Expecting perfection guarantees ultimate failure. The goal is to approach perfection with full knowledge and acceptance of the fact that achieving perfection is not possible.
Stay focused on the positive. Acknowledge the negative. Nurture your strengths. Identify and encourage the strengths of others that can shore up your weaknesses. Revel in the realization that a well-picked team can achieve overwhelming success when they feed off of each other’s strengths.
One person will never be as successful as a well-picked team.
- Jack Oct, 2008
A Good Night’s Sleep
Never underestimate the power of a good night’s sleep.
- Jack Mar, 2010
emergency medicine documentation solutions. While at T-System, he conceived the vision, described the path, defined the branding, and led the implementation of two new T SystemEV product lines, T-Data and T-Reporting. Dr. Brown served on the EDIS Functional Profile Workgroup which defined standards used by CCHIT for certification of health Information technology products. He was also the first elected Chairman of the Section of Computers of the American College of Emergency Physicians.
Dr. Brown has over 12 years of full-time clinical emergency experience, the last eight of those years at a Level I Trauma Center. He was a founding partner of Emergency Physicians of Community Hospital of Anderson, IN. While in Indiana, he served as the State Medical Director for Ask-A-Nurse. He is also a past president of Metro Emergency Physicians which provides emergency physician
coverage for four emergency departments of Saint Luke’s Health System in Kansas City, MO.
Dr. Brown received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Indiana University with a double major in chemistry and computer science and was awarded Honors in Chemistry. He received his Doctor of Medicine from Indiana University School of Medicine and completed his residency in emergency medicine at Methodist Hospital of Indiana where he served as Chief Resident, LIFE LINE flight physician, Indianapolis 500 track physician, and NFL Colts field physician. He is a Diplomate of the American Board of Emergency Medicine (ABEM) and is a lifetime fellow of the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP).
