Technical Working Group

Rick is leading a team in Intel's Digital Health Standards & Policy Division that is focused on medical device interoperability standards and eco-system enabling activities. His team is working with several leading companies in the consumer healthcare industry to organize existing technologies and standards into a framework for the enablement of new, compelling consumer health and wellness products and services. He currently holds Chair positions for the Continua Health Alliance Technical Working Group (WG) and for the ISO/IEEE 11073 Medical Information Bus WG and is a participating member of the ISO/IEEE 11073 Personal Health Data WG, the ISO/IEEE 11073 RF Wireless WG, the Health Level Seven (HL7) Device WG, and the Bluetooth Medical Device Profile WG. Throughout his career, he has been involved in many industry technology and standards development efforts including Advanced Telecommunications Architecture (ATCA) Manageability Specification, Tactical Defense data collection / analysis, Hierarchical Data Assimilation and Storage, and High Performance Computing.

Douglas J. McClure is Corporate Manager for Technology Services of Partners Telemedicine, a division of Partners Healthcare that is applying communications technology and online resources to improve access and delivery of quality patient care. Partners Telemedicine pursues its mission by working with the Harvard Medical School-affiliated teaching hospitals, including Massachusetts General and Brigham and Women's Hospitals.

Doug received his Masters in International Management from the University of Denver. Prior to joining Partners Healthcare, he built his career by consulting to leading high-tech, manufacturing, healthcare and financial services companies. In these roles he established himself as a recognized leader at managing and delivering complex software and system solutions that supported new product development. His ongoing research focuses on user-centric system design and the user interface as a mechanism to overcome barriers to new technology and process adoption.

Overseeing telemedicine business operations and technology research and development, Doug is responsible for managing ongoing research programs at Partners Telemedicine. These R&D programs are focused on helping reduce the barriers between patients and clinicians through the use of simple, accessible technologies, such as the Internet, cell phones and digital cameras.

Doug is currently the Chair of the American Telemedicine Association Technology Special Interest Group, the co-chair of the Health Cluster in the Massachusetts Technology Leadership Council and a member of the Technology Working Group for the Continua Health Alliance. He is also a member of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society and the Project Management Institute. Doug is a frequent lecturer on connected health and telemedicine.

Doug lives in the Boston area with his wife and two daughters.