J.D. Kleinke is a medical economist, author, health care information technology pioneer,
and leading advocate for a smarter, data-driven, post-partisan health care system.
He has been instrumental in the creation of four health care information organizations;
served as a health care business columnist for the Wall Street Journal; advised both sides
of the political aisle on pragmatic approaches to health policy and legislation; and served
on the Boards of several public and privately held health care companies.
J.D. is the CEO of Mount Tabor, a health care information technology development
company founded in 2007 to help Google, Microsoft and its partners build, test and
launch systems for the transformation and movement of electronic medical information.
Prior to creating Mount Tabor, J.D. helped establish Health Grades Inc., a publicly traded
health care information company based in Denver, which he served as Vice Chairman of
the Board until 2008.
In the 1990s, J.D. helped grow HCIA, now Solucient, from a niche hospital data analysis
firm into a pioneering, publicly-traded health information products and services
company. Before joining HCIA, he was Director of Corporate Programs at Sheppard
Pratt Health System, the largest private psychiatric hospital in the U.S. While at Sheppard
Pratt, J.D. developed and managed the nation's first provider-based, managed mental
health care system.
J.D. is a regular contributor to the policy journal, Health Affairs. His work has also
appeared in JAMA, Barron's, The Wall Street Journal, the British Medical Journal,
Modern Healthcare, and numerous other publications. His books, Bleeding Edge: The
Business of Health Care in the New Century and Oxymorons: The Myth of a U.S. Health
Care System are required reading in many physician-executive MBA programs and
health administration graduate in the U.S. His third book, Catching Babies - a novel
about the training and culture of obstetrician/gynecologists - will be published in
November.
For audiences across the health care, medical, corporate, policy and patient communities,
J.D. provides a no-nonsense, practical, and often humorous look at the collision of
government reform, increasing patient economic empowerment, and emerging
information and medical technologies – and their combined effects on the future
challenges and opportunities for today’s health care organization.
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