Vish Sankaran Director, Federal Health Architecture Program, Officer of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, Dept Health and Human Services
Vish Sankaran was appointed Director of the Federal Health Architecture (FHA) program in the Office of National Coordinator for Health Information Technology in the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) in March 2007. As FHA director, he has driven collaboration of interopable health IT in order to allow for the secure exchange of health information with the federal government, and with state, tribal and local governments and the private sector. In February, 2009 , Mr Sankaran was named as one of the Federal 100 by the editors of Federal Computer Week
John D Halamka MD, MS, Chief Information Officer of Harvard Medical School, Chairman of the New England Healthcare Exchange Network (NEHEN).
John Halamka is Chief Information Officer of Beth Isreal Deaconess Mediacl Center, Chief Information Officer of Harvard Medical School , Chairman of the New England Healthcare Exchange Network (NEHEN), Chair of the US Healthcare Information Technology Standards Panel (HITSP), co-Chair of the HIT Standards Committee and a practicing Emergency Physician.
As Chief Information Officer of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center he is responsible for all clinical, financial, administrative and academic information technology serving 3000 doctors, 14000 employees and two million patients. As Chief Information Officer of Harvard Medical School, he oversees all educational, research and administrative computing for 18000 faculty and 3000 students. As Chair of NEHEN he oversees clinical and administrative data exchange in Massachusetts. As Chair of HITSP/co Chair of the HIT Standards Committee he coordinates the process of electronic, standards harmonization among stakeholders nationwide.
David Bates MD Medial Director for Clinical and Quality Analysis, Chief of General Internal Medicine
Dr Bates is a renowned expert in using information technology to improve clinical decision making, quality-of-care, cost effectiveness and outcomes assessment. He is Chief, Division of General Internal Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital; Professor of Medicine, harvard Medical School; Professor of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public health and director, cLinical and Quality Analysis , PArtners Healthcare System. he was elected to the institute of Medicine the American Society for Clinical Investigation, the Association of American Physicians, The American College of Medical Informatics and is Chairman of the Board of the American Medical Informatics Association.
Janet Marchibroda is the Chief Healthcare Officer for IBM where she is responsible for driving policy and strategy for improving health and healthcare through the use of information technology and exchange. She joined IBM in April 2009 from ehealth Initiative (eHI), where she served as the founding Chief Executive Officer. eHI is an independent, non profit multi-stakeholder organization whose mission is to improve the quality, safety and efficiency of healthcare through information and information technology. eHI engages clinicians, consumers, employers, health plans, health IT companies, hospitals, laboratories, manufacturers, pharmacies and state and community-based organizations to reach agreement on and drive the adoption of common principles, policies, strategies and actions for improving health and healthcare through information technology in a way that is responsible, sustainable, responsive to stakeholder needs - particularly, patients and which builds and maintains the public's trust.
Mr Bernstein is a member of Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP's Board of Directors, is Chairman of the Healthcare Division and is Administrative Partner of the New York office. Mr Bernstein's law practice concentrates on advising clients in the healthcare industry, including provider organizations, payor organizations, emerging companies and financial institutions. His practice also emphasizes strategic, business, transactional and regulatory matters.
Mr Bernstein counsels numerous states, providers, companies and coalitions on healthcare information infrastructure and associated regulatory and financial considerations. He also speaks and writes extensively on emerging public policy issues in the health information technology field. He has assisted clients in raising billions of dollars of public-sector financing, ranging from innovative public-private ambulatory initiatives to cutting edge funding for hospitals.
Ian Spatz Principle, Rock Creek Policy Group, LLC Senior Advisor - Manatt Health Solutions, Healthcare Industry
Rachel Block Deputy Commissioner Office of Health Information Technology Transformation
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Gerry Hinkley Esq. Partner and Co Chair of HIT Practice Group, Pillsbury Winthorp Shaw Pittman LLP
Mr Hinkley has practiced in the healthcare industry for over 30 years. He represents clients throughout the industry and regularly serves as a general counsel for health care organizations, with responsibility for corporate law and board governance matters and manages the coordination of the broad range of services the firm provides for it's health care clients. Mr Hinkley counsels hospitals and physician organizations regarding management of legal affairs, governance, regulatory compliance, reimbursement, capital finance, joint ventures and clinic development. He advises health information exchanges regarding governance privacy, tax-exemption, user participation, consent and risk management.
Deven McGraw Director of Health Center for Technology and Democracy (ONC Policy Committee).
Deven McGraw is the Director of the Health Privacy at CDT. The project is focused on developing an dpromoting workable privacy and security protections for electronic personal health information. Ms McGraw is active in efforts to advance the adoption and implementation of health information technology and electroninc health information exchange to improve healthcare. She was one of three persons appointed by Kathleen Sebelius, the secretary of the U.S. Department of Health & Human SErvices (HHS), to serve on the Health Information Technology (HIT) Policy Committe, a federal advisory committe established in the American Recovery an Reinvestment Act of 2009.
Larry Garber MD, Medical Director for Informatics Fallon Clinic (developers of SAFE Health, secure architechture for HIEs)
Dr Garber is a practicing Internist, the Medical Director for Informatics at Fallon Clinic and Vice Chair of the Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative. he has coauthored articles in JAMA and JAMIA on Adverse Drug Events in the Ambulatory setting. Dr Garber is also Principle Investigator on a $1.5 million AHRQ Grant which has implemented a patient "Opt-In" consent-enabled Health INformation Exchange (HIE) currently live and self sustaining in central Massachusetts, know as SAFEHealth. Through Garber's work at Fallon Clinic they are one of eight national recipients of the prestigious 2009 Association of Medical Directors of Information Systems (AMDIS) Award.
Micky Tripathi> President and Chief Executive Officer of the Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative (MAeHC)
Micky Tripathi is the president and chief Executive Officer of the Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative (MAeHC), a non profit collaboration of 34 leading Massachusetts organizations. He is also a member of the board of Directors of MA-SHARE a community utility service for state-wide clinical data exchange in massachusetts. Mr Tripathi is also the co-chair of the Health Information Exchange Workgroup, one of three subgroups of the Health IT Policy Committee which is charged with making recommendations about health information exchange to the Office of National Coordinator for Health Information Technology in the US Department of Health and Human Services.
Eric Hartz CMIO, Eastern Maine Medical Centre, Bangor, Maine
Eric Hartz, MD is chief medical information officer (CMIO) at Eastern Maine Medical Center (EMMC) in Bangor, Maine. He also maintains and oncology practice at CancerCare of Maine. As CMIO, Dr Hartz is involved in patient safety initiatives including development of decision support tools and standardized order sets. Since he has been at EMMC, he has spearheaded the successful implementation of many solutions including Virtual ICU, PowerInsight for data mining, Millennium Lighthouse for care pathway process change and computerized provider order entry (CPOE) where only 1 t 2 percent of orders are now written on paper.
Dr Hartz presented on development of patient safety rules and alerts at the American Mediacl Informatics Association annual meeting and has travelled around the country assisting healthcare organizations in developing standardized order sets. He was also instrunmental in EMMC's becoming a hospitals & Health Networks' Most Wired Hospital and a recipient of teh 2008 Nicholas E Davies Organizational Award of Excellence for using information technology to improve the safety and quality of patient care.
Dr Rick Shoup Executive Director of Massachusetts eHealth Institute
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Dan Porreca Executive Director of HEALTHeLINK, Clinical Information Exchange, Western New York State
Dan E Porreca is Executive Director of HEALTHeLINK the clinical information exchange for Western New York State, including BUffalo and Niagara Falls. HEALTHelink, is a collaborative effort among the region's leading healthcare providers and health plans to share clinical information in efficient and meaningful ways to improve the delivery care, enhance clinical outcomes and help control healthcare costs. Porreca has been leading HEALTHeLINK since 2007 and under his leadership HEALTHeLINK has become one of the leading Clinical exchange networks in the United States. Through HEALTHeLINK healthcare providers can access their patients' current and relevant health information.
Justin Barnes Vice President Marketing & Government Affairs, Greenway Medical Technologies
As a healthcare software executive and public policy expert, Justin Barnes is a Vice President with Greenway Medical Technologies and manages Greenway's strategy, marketing, corporate development and government affairs departments. In addition, Mr Barnes is Chairman of the HIMSS Electronic Health Record (EHR) Association where he is responsible for executing the EHR and HEalth IT Industry governance boards and brings the essential continuum of corporate experience from Silicon Valley Start -Up's to Industry-leading Fortune 20 Conglomerates. Barnes has formally addressed and/or testified before Congress as well as both Presidential Administrations on twelve occasions between 2005 and 2009 with statements relating to EHR meaningful use, EHR certification, healthcare privacy, security, confidentiality, compliance, standards, interoperability, health IT adoption incentives, health IT return on investment (ROI) and the globalization of healthcare. Barnes is a regular public speaker on these issues and has been published in more than 200 journals, magazines and broadcast media outlets relating to national leadership of health IT and EHR adoption efforts. In addition, Barnes has advised several U.S Presidential campaigns on healthcare public policy, HIPAA, health IT and EHRs.
Robert Tennant Senior Policy Advisor MGMA Jesse Singer, Executive Development Director, Primary Care Information Project (PCIP) (TBC)
Ray Co founded Axolotl Corp. in 1995 to provide collaborative electronic workflow solutions for communities of health ace providers. He was instrumental in creating the concepts around Clinical Messaging, turning electronic medical record communication into a reality and establishing it as a necessary requirement for successful health Information Exchanges and Regional health Information Organizations.
With a strong supporting management team Ray has established Axolotl as a market leader in electronic connectivity and collaboration, today providing the technology and services to support many fully functioning RHIOs across the USA. Ray currently serves on the eHealth Initiative Leadership Council and as a member of the Markle Foundation's "Connecting For Health" team, Ray contributed to the widely acclaimed 'Common Framework' publication.
