Welcome to J.D. Kleinke

J.D. Kleinke is a Resident Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. He is a pioneering health care information entrepreneur, medical economist, author, and business strategist.

J.D. has been instrumental in the creation of four health care information organizations; served as a health care business columnist for the Wall Street Journal; advised both sides of the political aisle on pragmatic approaches to health policy and legislation; and long been a leading advocate for a smarter, data-driven, post-partisan health care system. He has served on the Boards of several public and privately held health care information companies; helped hospitals, health systems and physician groups around the country prepare for the challenges of Medicare modernization and health reform; and provided business, product and technology strategy services to numerous start-ups and established companies, including Aetna, Amgen, Cigna, Eli Lilly, Genentech, Google, Medtronic, Microsoft, Novartis, Pfizer, United Healthcare and Wellpoint.

J.D. helped establish Health Grades Inc., a publicly traded health care information company based in Denver, which he served as Vice Chairman of the Board until 2008. During the 1990s, Mr. Kleinke was a founding executive of Solucient, the nation’s first pure-play health care information company. Before Solucient, Mr. Kleinke was Director of Corporate Programs at Sheppard Pratt Health System, the largest private psychiatric hospital in the U.S. While at Sheppard Pratt - and only 28 years old at the time - Mr. Kleinke developed and managed the nation’s first provider-based, managed mental health care system.

J.D.'s work has appeared in Health Affairs, JAMA, Barron's, The Wall Street Journal, the British Medical Journal, Modern Healthcare, and numerous other publications. J.D.'s books, Bleeding Edge: The Business of Health Care in the New Century and Oxymorons: The Myth of a U.S. Health Care System are required reading in many physician-executive MBA programs and health administration graduate programs in the U.S. His third book, Catching Babies - a novel about the training and culture of obstetrician/gynecologists - was published in 2011.

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