Mary McGinnis is the Program Director for the Governor's Office of Health Information Technology at the State of Illinois. She is responsible for managing the State HIE planning grant program for the health information exchange. Mary is responsible for working with a broad group of stakeholders to achieve maximum engagement in health information exchange, addressing privacy and security issues and promoting the Meaningful use of electronic health records to improve the delivery of health care. Prior to working for the State of Illinois, mary worked for a hospital system negotiating hospital and physician contracts with major payers and managed care entities. Previous experience includes management positions with health insurance companies, negotiating managed care contracts and developing state-wide networks for Medicare, Medicaid and commercial managed care products.