Dennis Giokas now CPO at Alifor

TORONTO – Dennis Giokas (pictured) has joined Alifor as chief product officer. He will oversee Alifor’s further product development and solution partnerships, leveraging his background in scaling-up digital health and clinical systems. He will lead the team that’s defining functionality, priorities, integration strategies, and the product roadmap to guide further development and global rollout.

Alifor is a clinical operating system for healthcare professionals that includes AI scribes, clinician decision support and workflow improvement. Created by Markham, Ont.-physician Dr. Paul Forman, Alifor is EMR agnostic and works with a physician’s existing EMR.

Alifor’s Smart Care Manager streamlines intake by generating tailored pre-visit questions that enhance clinical context and feed directly into SOAP note generation. High quality clinical documentation is created with the built-in AI Scribe. SOAP notes, a Cumulative Patient Profile and referral notes to specialists are also AI generated for easy and secure export.

For 14 years Dennis was chief technology officer for Canada Health Infoway. He oversaw the technical aspects of Infoway’s $2.2B digital health investment. He led and published the industry leading and award winning EHRS Blueprint and a Privacy & Security Blueprint. In addition, he headed up Infoway’s standards development group which worked with stakeholders, clinicians and international standards development organizations to establish the standards used in Canada for the EHR. Dennis most recently led the organization’s Digital Health Innovation Ecosystem and Emerging Technology Groups.

For the past nine years Dennis has advised over 60 start-ups, early-stage and growth companies in the areas of business and technology vision, strategy, business model, value proposition, digital health ecosystem alignment, and channel partnership development. He is currently a volunteer mentor at the Health Innovation Hub (University of Toronto). Previously he was a volunteer digital health advisor at MaRS Discovery District (Toronto) and an innovation broker with the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care.

Dennis is also CIO Advisor with Medchart, a patient empowered health data exchange platform deployed in Canada and US. He is a senior board advisor at Cardea Health which is a platform to connect specialists to clinical trials and uses AI to pre-screen patient candidates.

Over the last 21 years, Dennis has been an independent director on five Boards. Most recently he was a board director at the Ontario Institute of Cancer Research and co-chair of the Audit, Finance and Risk committee. He served on the Digital Health Canada Board, member of and chaired the General Assembly (representing Canada) at SNOMED International and was an independent director on the HL7 International Board.

Dennis was born in and lived most of his life in the USA. He also has Canadian citizenship. He is a graduate of Boston University with a Master of Science in Computer Science. He is currently living in the Toronto, Ontario area with his wife Marion (physician, health policy consultant and digital health consultant) and doodle Riley.

For further information please see alifor.ca.