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   Published on: 10/22/2007   Last Visited: 1/6/2008

   Michael Barrett
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   Michael Barrett Principal, Critical Mass. Consulting
   
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   Michael Barrett Principal, Critical Mass. Consulting
   
   Mike is a graduate of Harvard College magna cum laude and Northeastern University School of Law. An attorney, he served four elected terms in the Massachusetts State Senate from Cambridge, chairing the Committee on Health Care. Mike left office in 1995 to head up the Visiting Nurse Association of New England, a group of Medicare-certified nonprofit home health agencies organized into a successful services delivery network. He departed the VNAs in 1999 to join the health care IT team at Forrester Research. In 2003 he established Critical Mass Consulting, his own firm, an independent health care and life sciences IT consultancy.
   
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   Michael Barrett
   
   Managing Partner Critical Mass Consulting
   
   Mike is Managing Partner of Critical Mass Consulting, a healthcare and life sciences consultancy focused on information technology use by physicians, consumers, hospitals, health plans, and medical device and pharmaceutical firms. Before founding his own firm, he was Senior Analyst at Forrester Research for health care. Mike has evaluated hundreds of products, companies, business models and business plans in healthcare, pharmaceuticals, and medical devices. He's also written extensively on IT's role in healthcare and the life sciences for the California Health Care Foundation (CHCF) and Forrester. Reports for CHCF include Patient Self-Management Tools: An Overview (June 2005) and Electronic Medical Records: A Buyers' Guide for Small Physician Practices (October 2003), both available for viewing at www.chcf.org. Projects for Forrester include When EMRs Meet Clinical Trials (March 2003), Making ePrescribing Pay Off (April 2002), and Web Clinical Trials Break Through (July 2001). Mike is the originator of Forrester's Healthcare Unbound concept. He conceived the idea and wrote Forrester's early, seminal report of the same name. Critical Mass Consulting focuses much of its research and strategic analysis in this area, in conjunction with work for clients on personal health records, disease management programs, and physician-patient messaging. Prior to embarking on a consulting career, Mike served as CEO and General Counsel of an independent practice association (IPA) consisting of 95 surgeons specializing in ear, nose, and throat disorders, and of a healthcare system composed of 70 home health nursing agencies in Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island. Mike ran daily operations and legal affairs as these operations contracted with insurers, delivered services to patients, purchased technology, and negotiated with medical supply and pharmaceutical companies. Before entering the private sector, Mike practiced law and ran successfully for four terms in the Massachusetts State Senate. As Senate chair of the Committee on Health Care, he focused on HMO reform and biotechnology's role in the state economy. Mike graduated from Harvard College magna cum laude and from the Northeastern University School of Law. After law school, he served as law clerk to Federal District Court Judge June L. Green in Washington, DC. He is an active member of the Massachusetts Bar. Mike can be reached at mbarrett@cmass.us.
   
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   Moderator: Michael Barrett, Managing Partner, Critical Mass Consulting
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   Moderator: Michael Barrett, Managing Partner, Critical Mass Consulting