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Health Care Dr. Gruber consulted with Pfizer for 25 years, a time of extraordinary Pfizer progress in the use of information technology-enabled strategic business initiatives. Additional pharmaceutical industry experience includes assignments with the Pharmaceutical Manufacturers and Research Association. Early health industry experience in the 1970s included the development of a computer system for a large chain of nursing homes. He has provided strategy and information consulting services for Harvard University Health Services for over a decade. This assignment led to a referral to the Risk Management Foundation (RMF) of the Harvard Medical Institutions where he was CIO for four years. RMF is the malpractice insurance company for the Harvard-affiliated hospitals and HMOs.Dr. Gruber was a major force in launching an extension of the Risk Management Foundation scope from serving only the Harvard-affiliated medical institutions to a new business venture, funded with venture capital from the Board, to sell information technology-based systems, data and educational services to a worldwide market. In this assignment he assisted in the business planning to justify this venture investment and he was a major player in the sale of the first two clients and the launch of these client assignments. He taught courses in health care economics and management as an adjunct professor in the Boston College Graduate School of Management. With funding initiated by Vice-President Gore in 1993, Dr. Gruber was responsible for a study of telemedicine applications to be carried on the National Information Infrastructure. His research on telemedicine was reported in Beyond Telecommuting: A New Paradigm for the Effect of Telecommunications on Travel. Publications on the Health Care industry include: "Harvard's Medical Institutions: A Technical Step Ahead", Forum, (Risk Management Foundation of the Harvard Medical Institutions Inc.) September, 1998. "Managed Care has been good medicine; we don’t need micromanaged care", The Boston Globe, June 23, 1997 "Information Services for the 21st Century", Forum (Risk Management Foundation of the Harvard Medical Institutions Inc.), April 1996 "Fully-Functional Patient-Based Electronic Medical Records", Chapter in Reengineering for Patient-Focused Care, Missouri, Prescott Publishing Company, 1996, pgs. 173-186. "Legacy Systems and Architecture Issues in the Phased Implementation of the Electronic Medical Record." Reprinted from HIMSS Proceedings of Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society Conference, February 12-16, 1995;2: 345-353. "Cost Shifting in the Current Medical Environment", IEEE/SPIE Conference on The Role of Technology in the Cost of Health Care, 1994. "Integration of medical and information technology in US Health Care", IEEE/SPIE Conference on The Role of Technology in the cost of health care, 1994. "Beyond Telecommuting: A New Paradigm for the Effect of Telecommunications on Travel,". (Report on Dr. Gruber's study of telemedicine), US Department of Energy, 1994.
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