Héctor Iván García-Maldonado, MPH
Founder and Principal, STATHESIS
Héctor Iván García-Maldonado has spent more than 25 years inside Puerto Rico's health system. He led quality, statistics and utilization review for the government's Medicaid managed care program, which covered 1.3 million people, and spent eight years negotiating coverage and contracts with payers for a national cancer diagnostics laboratory.
He has held roles at the CDC, a health plan and the University of Puerto Rico Medical Sciences Campus. Since 2019 he has directed the federally funded network that brings health IT, interoperability, quality improvement and data analytics to the community health centers of Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands.
He founded STATHESIS in 2018 for his own clients and has built it into a practice for agencies, health plans, providers and programs across the United States and Latin America. He works in English and Spanish.
Career record
Education and certificates
- Master of Public Health, BiostatisticsUniversity of Puerto Rico, Medical Sciences Campus
- Bachelor of Business AdministrationUniversity of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras
- Certificates in epidemiologyCenters for Disease Control and Prevention and Emory University
- Certificate in statistical survey designProfessional institute, Washington, DC
- Public health leadership certificateInstituto de Liderato de Salud Pública de Puerto Rico
Public record
Opening speaker, Puerto Rico Interoperability and Digital Health Summit
Opened the summit with "Puerto Rico at a Turning Point in Interoperability and Digital Health" and led an on-stage conversation on TEFCA and data readiness with the Deputy National Coordinator for Health IT.
Guest, Telehealth Talk podcast
"Monitoreo remoto de pacientes": putting remote patient monitoring into clinic workflows, and the reimbursement and broadband barriers health centers face.
Quoted on a patient-data quality study
A health information exchange project that analyzed clinical documents from Puerto Rico health centers to find where record keeping breaks down.
Contributor, Puerto Rico health IT assessment
Participant in the Puerto Rico Department of Health's Health Information Technology Assessment Report.
Leadership
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