Dr. Jitendra Barmecha began his clinical and healthcare leadership career at St. Barnabas Hospital (SBH Health System) as Chief Medical Resident after completing three years in the Internal Medicine Residency Program. Following his chief medical residency, he earned his MPH degree in Health Management and Policy at New York Medical College, while continuing to provide patient care and medical education services as faculty in the Department of Medicine at St. Barnabas Hospital.
In 2001, he joined Partners in Health – a Medicaid Managed Care health plan affiliated with SBH as an Assistant Medical Director and was subsequently appointed the Medical Director of the health plan in 2005. While continuing to manage the medical management of the health plan, he was appointed the Chief Medical Officer of Union Community Health Center (UCHC). During his tenure, he was instrumental in assisting the leadership team in receiving the designation of Federally Qualified Health Center- Look Alike (FQHC-LA) and implemented the Emergency Preparedness program at all three sites of UCHC. In 2006, he was appointed as Medical Director – Case Management at SBH where he revamped the utilization management and social work departments into a single Care Transitions Department by incorporating health information technology into the workflow.
In 2011, as Vice – President of Medical Informatics & the Chief Medical Informatics Officer, he assisted in SBH & UCHC Ambulatory Care’s application for Level 3: Patient Centered Medical Home designation. He implemented and integrated the Allscripts electronic health record in the emergency department, acute care, ambulatory care and pharmacy into a single database thereby achieving Stage 1 meaningful use of the Electronic Health Record (EHR).
Presently, as Chief Information Officer and Senior Vice President of Information Technology & Clinical Engineering, his team completed the upgrade of electronic health records to comply with Stage 2 Meaningful Use of EMR for the reporting period of April June 2014. He is involved in upgrading the systems technical infrastructure; ensuring clinical information systems and patient monitoring devices are well integrated into the electronic health records for the future. He co-chairs the ICD 10 implementation at SBH health system. As a chair of the clinical committee, he provides clinical leadership to the Bronx Regional Health Information Exchange (RHIO) & Bronx Regional Informatics Center.
Dr. Barmecha is the chair of the American College of Physician NY chapters PCMH / ACO committee. While continuing his passion for bedside patient care as a hospitalist, he enjoys teaching clinical staff, medical students and routinely provides lectures in health care management, technology and policy.
Dr. Grundy is the founding President of the Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative (PCPCC), where he served as President of its Board of Directors from 2006 through January of 2016. The PCPCC is a not-for-profit membership organization dedicated to advancing an effective and efficient health system, built on a strong foundation of primary care and the patient-centered medical home.
Dr. Grundy is also a healthcare ambassador for the nation of Denmark and an adjunct professor at the University of Utah Department of Family and Preventive Medicine. He is a member of National Academy of Medicine; director of the ACGME, the body responsible for accrediting graduate medical training programs; and a member of the national advisory board to the National Center for Interprofessional Practice & Education. Dr. Grundy was made an honorary member of the American Academy of Family Physicians in 2008, and the first international honorary member of the Irish National Association of General Practitioners. He is a retired senior diplomat with the rank of minister consular at the U.S. State Department.
