About Us
Felasfa Wodajo, MD
Felasfa ("Phil") Wodajo is a bone and soft tissue tumor surgeon (orthopedic oncologist), in the Washington DC area. He is Medical Director of Musculoskeletal Oncology at Inova Fairfax Hospital and Assistant Professor, Orthopedic Surgery at VCU School of Medicine and Georgetown University Hospital.
He was frustrated by the gulf in usability and creativity between consumer and health information technologies, some of which he blogs about at [www.OrthoOnc.com]. But, instead of just complaining about it, he joined with Matthew to start helping some physicians.
Matthew DiPaola, MD
Matthew DiPaola is an orthopedic shoulder and elbow specialist and Assistant Professor of Orthopedics at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio. He co Founded Touch Consult and built “The List” to solve a problem that he lived and breathed (acutely) throughout residency. He wishes that he had “The List” when he was a resident and takes pride in designing products for doctors and patients.
InteHealth: Our technology partner
InteHealth is a leader in secure clinical data communication, with a national client list of small, medium and large hospital systems. It specializes in building applications based on secure, private transmission of clinical data from hospitals to its Healthcare Cloud Computing Architecture.
Working together with InteHealth, Touch Consult can synchronize your hospital EHR (patient location, attending, facesheet information, medications) with the List, saving residents time and reducing errors. This data connection can be rapidly provisioned with minimal effort by hospital IT and with full HIPAA compliance. InteHealth undergoes regular security audits and utilizes the most advanced security technologies available.
Interns
We are honored to have two interns working with us on our venture at Touch Consult.
Kristen Koproske is a recent graduate of Cornell University with a BS in Biology and a minor in Applied Economics and Management.
Daniel Luby is currently an undergraduate at Cornell University with a major in Applied Economincs and Business Management with a concentration in entrepreneurship.
Advisory Board
Jay Parkinson, MD
Jay Parkinson is a pediatrician and preventive medicine specialist who has been called one of the top 10 most creative people in health care by Fast Company and one of Esquire’s 2009 Best and Brightest "Radicals and Rebels Who Are Changing the World." He co-founded Hello Health, a patient-centric physician network based around an innovative electronic health record. He is currently building The Future Well, a design and consulting company dedicated to wellness.
Frank Nash
Frank Nash is Vice President of Account Development and Product Direction for InteHealth. Prior to InteHealth, Frank was the Director of Channel Partners for Healtheon, and he worked for HBOC in various roles such as project management, business development and the regional vice president for the Amherst Product Group division.