PARTNER

EXPERIENCE AND INTERESTS
Alan J. Goldberg is a Partner and President of Applied Management Systems, Inc., Burlington, MA, a leading provider of operational management consulting and receivables management support to the healthcare industry.  Mr. Goldberg has been a Board member and President of the company since 1985 and a Partner since 1997. He started with AMS in 1976 when it was a subsidiary of the Massachusetts Hospital Association. He was previously Assistant Director of HARICOMP (Vector Health Systems) in Providence, RI, an affiliate of the Hospital Association of Rhode Island. 

He concentrates his activity on the corporate responsibilities of business development, administration, and financial management. He is the editor of the AMS Bi-weekly Report. In keeping with the corporate philosophy, he also performs client work. His specialty areas include mergers and consolidations, corporate restructuring, organizational change, productivity, physicians’ issues, and strategic planning.

EDUCATION AND TEACHING
Mr. Goldberg received a Bachelor's of Science in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research from the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, MA, where he was elected to Who’s Who Among Students and Universities. He was also winner of the Armstrong Company national award for excellence in industrial engineering. He earned a Master of Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY. There he was elected to Epsilon Delta Sigma, the national management engineering honor fraternity. 

Mr. Goldberg is a former adjunct professor at Providence College in Providence, RI, and at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Graduate School of Management in Troy, NY. In 1998, he was appointed to the Northeastern University Health Management Advisory Board, Boston, MA.

PRESENTATIONS, PUBLICATIONS AND AWARDS
In 2002, Mr. Goldberg received the American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE) Massachusetts Regents' "Healthcare Executive of the Year" award, presented during the Massachusetts Hospital Association Annual Meeting. In 2003, he received the "Distinguished Service" award from the Health Care Management Association (HCMA). In 2000 and 2001, Mr. Goldberg made presentations to the Massachusetts Hospital Association; West Virginia Hospital Association; Synernet, Maine; the Cambridge Health Alliance, and the HCMA Entrepreneurship Forum. He spoke on topics ranging from productivity management to impacts of legislation on the healthcare environment to healthcare design.

In the 1990s, Mr. Goldberg served as an editor and co-editor of the three editions of Hospital Departmental Profiles, published by American Hospital Publishing. He was asked to serve as the editor of the fourth edition. Also in the 1990s, he was uniquely honored, receiving the first ever special recognition award for management engineering, given out by the American Hospital Association and known as the Lifetime Achievement Award. Mr. Goldberg served as a reviewer for the Baxter Foundation - AHA Fellowship awarded by Hospital Research and Educational Trust. He has been selected for inclusion in many "Who's Who" directories, including the original Who's Who in America.

In the 1980s, he wrote numerous articles in Hospitals, Medical Laboratory Observer, Health Services Research, and Hospital Energy Strategies. He coauthored a chapter in Productivity and Performance Management in Health Care Institutions (Chicago: American Hospital Publishing). He has also received the Technical Publication Award of the Hospital Management Systems Society of the American Hospital Association (AHA) for the book.

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Mr. Goldberg’s current affiliations include the American Hospital Association, the Association of Health Care Enterprises (AHE), where he was elected to the Board of Directors in 2006, the American College of Healthcare Executives, and the Massachusetts Hospital Association. In addition, he serves on the Board of Directors of the Health Care Management Association of Massachusetts (HCMA) and is past president. HCMA is a local chapter of ACHE. He is a life member, fellow, and past elected national president and chairman of the Board of Directors of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS); and is a fellow of the ACHE, passing the consultant's specialty examination, and attaining the status of Board-Certified Health Care Executive.