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.