This episode of BCEN and Friends lets you meet our friend Tom Scaletta.

Tom Scaletta is a practicing emergency physician who is also board certified in clinical informatics. Tom trained at the University of Illinois for medical school and completed his emergency medicine residency at Northwestern. He held leadership position at San Francisco General Hospital and Cook County Hospital and is now medical director for immediate care and emergency medicine at hospital system in the Chicago area. Tom is a past president of the American Academy of Emergency Medicine.

Before entering medical school, Tom worked as a software programmer. He designed the first computerized patient callback system in 1996. His system was acknowledged in the Journal of Emergency Nursing by AnnMarie Papa, former ENA President, and Cindy Lefton, former JEN editor as “The Evolution of ED Callbacks’ “(https://www.jenonline.org/article/S0099-1767(15)00128-2/fulltext). In 2012, Tom founded Auscura; a technology company focused on secure, automated communication.

Janie Schumaker and Mark Eggers talk with Tom Scaletta, about his many roles in emergency medicine as a physician and administrator. Tom almost took the path of I/T but decided on the path of emergency medicine instead, and after hearing this podcast you will be glad that he did.

Listen as Tom talks about his wife, who by the way is an emergency nurse, and the amazing things they have participated in. Have you heard about “Got CEN?” or Auscura? This is just the tip of the iceberg of this episode. This podcast has a wealth of knowledge that will make you glad you tuned in.

Tom has such a passion for what he does and life itself. He’s made an impact on a lot of people and maybe after listening to this podcast he will make an impact on you?

This BCEN and Friends episode is called “Just What the Doctor Ordered”

Tom can be found on the following social media platform:

https://www.auscura.com/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomscaletta/