Walt Culbertson

Background

About Walt Culbertson

Walt is the founder and President of Connecting Healthcare®, dedicated to healthcare administrative and clinical transactions success since 2004. He is host and producer of the local Jacksonville, FL Comcast cable program;"The Medical Update Show" and a featured speaker at numerous healthcare and industry conferences, forums, summits, and events each year. Walt started his healthcare career out of high-school as a Navy Corpsman with a DT rating in 1975. In the early 80’s he designed and developed one of the early networked desktop solutions for dentists, physicians and clinics, the Patient Management System (PMS). Walt’s 40+ year plus career in health care and information systems includes significant leadership, technology and operations experience spanning all major facets of the health care industry. Walt is actively involved in initiatives to promote the applied use of health information technology (HIT) including: electronic health records; health information exchange; electronic prescribing; tele-health and tele-pharmacy; disaster preparedness and response; physician HIT and privacy education and remote learning; community and national HIT outreach and adoption; the privacy and security of health information; and patient/consumer engagement in healthcare.Recognized as a leading HIT educator and lecturer, healthcare technologist and HIPAA authority. Successful track record of helping health care providers, health plans and state, national and public/private initiatives direct their e-capabilities and migration of organizations, business practices, functions and policies toward digital healthcare and consumer engaged interactions. Walt is a seasoned facilitator, experienced in helping orchestrate the development and execution of collective goals and objectives among diverse stakeholders.