Director of Strategic Initiatives, Greenway Medical Technologies, Inc. Rich has spent nearly two decade in the forefront of the grwoth of ambulatory healthcare information technology. An early college internship at the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services as his awakening to the promise and challenges of healthcare. After graduating from Auburn University as a business and psychology student, Walsh embarked on entrepreneurial ventures in the dot.com arena before settling in with the life sciences division of IBM. He then moved directly into HIT by leading ambulatory EHR sales in Florida all while assisting the marketing and business development of A4 Health Systems and was significant in its successful growth through acquisition by Allscripts and through the subsequent merger with Misys before joining Greewnway Medical earlier this year as Director of Strategic Initiatives. For the Carrollton, GA- based EHR vendor, Walsh is leading the company's ventures with national consultancies into the stimulus-backed realms of grant stewardship, HIE, REC, FQHC and related national public policy projects, responsibilities that have again caused him to cross paths with HHS.