Prior to serving as Executive Director of New York ehealth Collaborative, Dave Whitlinger served as the Director of Healthcare Device Standards and Interoperability for the Intel Corporation in it's Digital Health Group. Mr Whitlinger was responsible for Intel's healthcare device interoperability strategies and the standards development to support those strategies. He has also led a large, cross-industry consortium, the Continua Health Alliance, focused on the establishment of an ecosystem of interoperable, personal telehealth systems. Mr Whitlinger was with Intel from 1993 to 2009. Prior to establishing the Healthcare Device Standards Group, he worked on a wide variety of wireless standards. As a result, Mr Whitlinger and his team have held leadership roles in many standards organizations throughout the world, including: Health Level Seven (HL7); Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (HIE); IEEE 1073; Bluetooth SIG; WiMedia Alliance; Homeplug Alliance; UPnP Forum; Oasis; WSI;and the Digital Living Network Alliance (DNLA). He also served on the Bluetooth SIG Board of Directors for several years. Mr Whitlinger is the author of five research journal articles, four of which focused on breast cancer DNA analysis.