About Dr. Eric Silfen

Dr. Eric Silfen is the Chief Medical Officer of Philips Healthcare.

Dr. Silfen is a renowned expert on the implementation of information technologies in medical settings and has an extensive background in hospital and health plan clinical affairs, disease and care management programs, and clinical quality and performance improvement. While at Philips, he has worked on global multi-disciplinary research teams in the areas of molecular medicine, computer-aided imaging, clinical systems and diagnostic evaluations.

He received his medical degree from Georgetown University School of Medicine, and is Board certified in Internal Medicine and Emergency Medicine. He also holds a masters degree in health administration from Medical College of Virginia, and a master degree in biomedical informatics from Columbia University in New York.

Dr. Silfen is a member of the Society for Critical Care Medicine, the Society for Medical Decision Making, the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society, the American College of Medical Quality and The New York Academy of Sciences.

Home health technology helping save lives of heart failure patients
Posted on: Mon, 8 Feb 2010
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I recently had the opportunity to interview Dr. Matthew Harris, a senior scientist in the Medical Signal Processing Department at Philips Research. Read More
2009 RSNA annual meeting innovates and educates
Posted on: Mon, 8 Feb 2010
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Though medical conferences are not necessarily rare occurrences, those that host almost 57,000 are quite extraordinary. Read More
Integrating technology and the future of health: Insights from TEDMED
Posted on: Wed, 20 Jan 2010
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More videos from TEDMED 2009, produced by CNBC, have been posted exclusively to GetInsideHealth.com. Read More
The importance of consumerism in healthcare
Posted on: Tue, 12 Jan 2010
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Recently, my daughter e-mailed asking me to explain health reform. I responded to her by writing the following: Read More
A meeting of the minds
Posted on: Tue, 12 Jan 2010
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Earlier this fall, I spent some time with a group of talented and inspirational people – ranging from magicians to stem cell experts – at the 2009… Read More


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