CEOCFO Magazine Features Real Time Medical

David Koff, MD FRCPC, is Professor Emeritus at McMaster University, past Chief and Chair of the Department of Radiology. He is founder and director of MIIRCAM, the Medical Imaging Informatics Research Centre at McMaster, leading research projects on radiation risk, validation of technology and applications of Artificial Intelligence to medical imaging. He is chair of Canada Safe Imaging, part of the international radiation safety campaigns.

For the last 20 years, Dr. Koff’s research has centered on the electronic communication and workflow integration of medical images, and he developed the Canadian standards on lossy compression. His current research interests are about Artificial Intelligence for aggregation of imaging and medical data. He has been a co-founder of IHE Canada (Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise) and is a member of the IHE section of the Medical Informatics committee at RSNA. He is past co-Chair of the IHE International Radiology Planning Committee.

Dr Koff has been organizing MIIT, the Medical Imaging Informatics and Teleradiology conference in Canada for the past 15 years. He is also teaching leadership in healthcare using the LEADS framework. He is a Senior member of the IEEE.

Tracy has worked in Diagnostic Imaging for over 30 years.  Her career began as a technologist in a large teaching hospital.  She then became the DI Systems Support Specialist, supporting the HIS/RIS, PACS, voice recognition software and patient appointment scheduling applications.  Tracy was seconded for the Mohawk Shared Services LHIN 3-4 DI-r integration team as the Clinical and Integration Lead for over 2 years.  This role was responsible for all integration activities at each of the sites and included data collection, exam dictionary mapping for standardization of the DI-r exam dictionary, HL7 integration, testing and workflow assessment for both current and future states as well as training the end users at the sites.

Rudy Barell has been working in the private and public sector for 18 years in a business development role. Prior to joining Real Time Medical, and most recently, Rudy has spent time cultivating relationships with public and private stakeholders as a government relations consultant within the not-for-profit, manufacturing, first nation and healthcare sectors.

In 20 years of new business development, sales, marketing, and operations of enterprise software and sub-specialty physician services to hospitals and health systems, Buck uses active listening skills to understand the challenges faced by healthcare administrators and delivers creative solutions.
Areas of expertise include identification of Early Adopters for emerging technology solutions, start-ups seeking pre-IPO growth, and mature companies that seek new business growth in new accounts and the existing customer base.
Buck is adept at identifying new technologies that will improve the patient experience, reduce costs, and improve population health.

Enzo Costanza is a Senior Executive with over 30 years of experience in Strategic Business Transformation, Operations, Product Development & Commercialization, Engineering & Quality Management, and Financial Business P&L Management. His industry experience is in Medical, Commercial, Aerospace & Defense. He is currently at Real Time Medical with a mandate to develop and implement leading cloud based medical software solutions and mobile apps for Radiologist/Physician to help them workload balance, communicate critical findings, provide QA Peer Learning solutions, and access the latest medical articles, videos, and cases with the collective intelligence of healthcare professionals including confidence ratings, best practice sharing and related feedback on native mobile platforms. In addition, leveraging Machine Learning (AI) algorithms to recognize patterns and behaviours to improve the effectiveness of Real Time Medical products and end customer workflows. He has worked for a number of companies in leadership roles including e2 Solutions Consulting, BionX International, BlackBerry, & Celestica, and IBM Canada.
Enzo graduated from the University of Waterloo with an Honors Bachelor in Applied Sciences Degree in Mechanical Engineering.
He’s a certified Lean/Six Sigma Black Belt and a Registered Professional Engineer (P. Eng.) in the Province of Ontario. 

Dr. Koff is a radiologist with a special interest in imaging informatics and quality improvement. Before co-founding RTM, she has been leading Easy Pax Inc.,  a company specializing in medical digital imaging, which was acquired in 2005. Prior to that, she practiced in both private and public as Associate Professor at the Hôpital Foch in Suresnes, France, and as a co-founder and partner of Scanner Turin in Paris, specializing in cross-sectional and breast imaging.

Mr. Maynard has over 22 years of experience in the Canadian healthcare Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS). Prior to founding Real Time Medical, Ian was a foundational member of GE Healthcare Canada’s PACS business unit, which grew business from $1 million per year in unit orders and sales to $40 million, including personal orders and sales of $24 million. He was awarded GE’s All-Star Award twice, and GE’s Global Austin Martin Award.