Dr. Bill Braithwaite has dedicated his career to improving the quality and efficiency of healthcare for patients and practitioners through information technology but is best known as the author of the administrative Simplification Subtitle of HIPAA and as a major contributor to the subsequent regulations for transactions, code sets, indentifiers, security and privacy of personal health information. An independent consultant on health information policy and strategy he is Chief Medical Officer (CMO) for Anakam Inc. a company that sells software tools that implement low cost authentication and identity proofing to enable secure remote access to sensitive information.