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Shahid Shah is an award-winning Government 2.0, Health IT, Medical Device Integration software expert with several decades of technology strategy, software engineering, entrepreneurship, speaking, and writing experience.
Shahid Shah is an award-winning Digital Government, Cybersecurity, and Health IT expert with several decades years of technology strategy, software engineering, entrepreneurship, speaking, and writing experience.

Entrepreneurship-focused (short, mixed)

Shahid Shah is an award-winning Government 2.0, Health IT, and Medical Device Integration software expert and internationally-recognized thought leader with several decades of technology strategy, software engineering, entrepreneurship, speaking, and writing experience. He’s a serial entrepreneur that has co-founded and led Netspective.com, Physia.com, InfluentialNetworks.com, HealthcareGuy.com, HITSphere.com, and simplifyMD.com within the last few years; he has another two stealth startups in the works. His primary responsibility is as CEO of Netspective Communications, a computer software architecture & engineering firm delivering custom software for in-house, outsourced, or offshore solutions. Shahid also serves as a senior technology advisor to OMB’s Budget System Branch, the eGov Budget Formulation & Execution Line of Business (BFELoB.gov), Veterans Affairs (VA.gov), OSEHRA.org, and Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC.gov).

Healthcare-specific (short, no company)

Shahid N. Shah is an internationally recognized and influential healthcare IT thought leader who is known as “The Healthcare IT Guy” across the Internet. He is a technology strategy consultant to many federal agencies and winner of Federal Computer Week’s coveted “Fed 100″ award given to IT experts that have made a big impact in the government. Shahid has architected and built multiple clinical solutions over his several decades-long career. He helped design and deploy the American Red Cross’s electronic health record solution across thousands of sites; he’s built several web-based EMRs now in use by hundreds of physicians; he’s designed large groupware and collaboration sites in use by thousands; and, as an ex-CTO for a billion dollar division of CardinalHealth he helped design advanced clinical interfaces for medical devices and hospitals. Shahid also serves as a senior technology strategy advisor to NIH’s and TATRC’s SBIR/STTR program hel ping small businesses commercialize their healthcare applications.

Shahid runs three successful blogs. At http://shahid.shah.org he writes about architecture issues, at http://www.healthcareguy.com h e provides valuable insights on how to apply technology in health care, at http://www.federalarchitect.com he advises senior federal technologists, and at http://www.hitsphere.com he gives a glimpse of the health-care IT blogosphere as an aggregator.

Cybersecurity-specific (short, no company)

Shahid N. Shah is an internationally recognized and influential cybersecurity and risk management expert. He is a technology strategy consultant to many federal agencies and winner of Federal Computer Week’s coveted “Fed 100″ award for his work on the government’s largest secure collaboration space. Shahid has lead or participated in numerous cybersecurity risk assessments, threat assessments, risk management, penetration testing, and overall systems quality efforts in multiple government agencies as well as medical devices, insurance, and health IT sectors over the past several decades. He’s served as Chief Architect (contractor) for BFELoB and OMB secure collaboration platforms and was responsible for strategy as well as implementation leadership of the government’s largest cross-agency identity management solution focused on multifactor auth/authz and identity assurance. Shahid has helped guide numerous projects through FISMA compliance and FedRAMP certifications as well as helped architect some of the systems within which FedRAMP content submitted by registrants are safely stored. He’s also helped AHIP with cybersecurity strategy development for its member insurers and is the author of the “Cybersecurity Risks” and “Conducting Digital Health Risk Assessments” chapters of the 2015 edition of “Insurance and Risk Management Strategies for Physicians and Advisors” book.

Technology Strategy (short, Netspective CEO)

Shahid N. Shah is the CEO of Netspective Communications, a software consultancy whose actionable advice and disciplined approach delivers custom software for in-house, outsourced, or offshore solutions. Over the past several decades Shahid has held the positions of CTO, VP of Technology, Chief Software Architect, or Enterprise Architect at large enterprises. His technology expertise includes service-oriented and event-drive architectures, Java/JEE, .NET, and agile development and his healthcare focus starts with an emphasis on e-health, EMRs, data integration, and legacy modernization.

Shahid’s an expert at discovering practical technology solutions to real-world business initiatives, especially in the government, healthcare and financial services industries. His expertise includes standards development, enterprise architecture analysis and design, interoperability planning, legacy modernization, and related work. He~Rs worked at NIH on standards, Executive Office of the President (White House) and OMB on helping define the needs for standards, and at various commercial healthcare firms like CardinalHealth and COMSYS. In addition to working with C-Suite executives he continues to help engineering teams with architecture and development advice.

He is an influential thought leader and a winner of Federal Computer Week’s coveted “Fed 100″ award given to IT experts that have ma de a big impact in the government and runs three successful blogs. At http://shahid.shah.org he writes about architecture issues, at http:// www.healthcareguy.com he provides valuable insights on how to apply technology in health care, at http://www.federalarchitect.com he advises senior federal technologists, and at http://www.hitsphere.com he gives a glimpse of the health-care IT blogosphere as an aggregator.

Chief Architect at OMB’s Budget Systems Branch (short, for Government speaking events)

Shahid N. Shah is the Chief Architect of OMB’s Budget System Branch and the Budget Formulation & Execution Line of Business (BFELoB) and a consulting architect at a few other federal agencies. Shahid’s an expert at discovering practical technology solutions to real-world business initiatives, especially in the government, healthcare and financial services industries. He is an influential thought leader and a winner of a 2009 Federal Computer Week “Fed 100″ award for his work on the Federal Community. At http://www.federalarchitect.com he advises senior federal technologists through his popular blog.