Bill has been involved with the Santa Cruz Health Information Exchange since 1998 and joined Physicians Medical Group of Santa Cruz full time in 2001. Over that time the volume of clinical documents delivered across the HIE has risen six fold and the number of active electronic users recently passed 600.Continued>

The PMG Elysium Santa Cruz Health Information Exchange is one of the oldest and most advanced and most advanced in the country. The clinical network connects a large IPA, two local hospitals the Country Health Clinics two national and two local reference labs, two imaging centers and several FQHC safety net clinics. More than 1.2 Million web transactions occur each month on the Exchange as well as tens of thousands of new electronic prescriptions, electronic refill requests, pre- treatment authorizations, refferals and transcribed documents.
Bill is responsible for all data and voice systems at Physicians Medical Group a 300 provider Independent Physicians Association and primary sponsor of the Health Information Exchange. he led the organization through several major system upgrades from client-server technology to web delivery as well as a major database platform change.
Bill organized PMG's technology Committee which sets IT standards across the group. Bill served on the Technology Work Group for CalRHIO and on the Patient Identification Sub- Committee. He is former IT Chair of the local country wide disease registry. he currently serves on the Steering Committee of the Californian ehealth Collaborative (CaeHC) and the Access Controls Task Group of the California Privacy and security advisory Board (CalPSAB).
Bill has a 26 year career in information technology having spent time in the systems integration business as well as working for major computer firms.