David Judge, MD, Medical Director, MGH Ambulatory Practice of the Future

Dr. David C. Judge completed his residency training in internal medicine at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center in New York City and joined the Bulfinch Medical Group (BMG) at MGH in 1999.  In addition to maintaining a busy internal medicine practice, he has worked as a liaison for clinicians to Partners Healthcare Information Systems to assist in developing the electronic medical record (LMR) and patient portal (Patient Gateway).  He has served as the co-chair for the LMR Users Group at MGH and is a member of the Partners LMR Advisory Board.  He has also served in the role of  associate medical director of BMG.  Since 2004 he has been the chair of the Ambulatory Practice of the Future (APF) Committee for the Massachusetts General Physicians Organization.  The mission of the APF is to radically redesign the current model of outpatient care to greatly  improve the experience of clinicians and patients.  He is leading a design team which will create a clinical laboratory in order to study the impact of new physical space design as well as innovative medical and communication technologies on patient care.