Regional Leadership: (RHIO/HIE Perspective)

James Ferguson is Executive Director of Health Information Technology Strategy and policy for Kaiser Permanante. He is responsible for health IT informatics standards priorities and policies and government and industry relations for IT. Prior to this assignment Mr. Ferguson was executive director of information management at Kaiser Permanente. Mr Ferguson serves on a number of national health IT organizations, including the HHS HIT Standards Committee. Previously in his career, Mr Ferguson was a research investigator at Yale University School of Medicine, an economist research investigator at Yale University School of Medicine, an economist in the Federal Reserve and a divisional chief information officer at Bank of America