John Halamka
Chief Information Officer, CareGroup Health System
"I have seen that the emergence and convergence of national standards for health information exchange is vital to the improvement of quality and any hoped-for efficiency gains in our country. Back in 2003, Connecting for Health was the first group to get a broad consensus on a suite of foundational standards and these same standards are still central to our work today. Connecting for Health has also been a unique forum for thinking through the architecture that can link together the many valuable local and institutional IT efforts while still achieving vital policy objectives that are so important to those of us delivering care to our patients every day. When we began our work on the Connecting for Health Common Framework in 2004 we did not have a set of widely-accepted rules or tools for moving information among regions. We participated vigorously in the development of the Common Framework with our colleagues in Indiana and California and saw that a "network of networks" was feasible."
Senior Health Policy Analyst for the Washington State Health Care Authority, and Project Manager for the Health Record Bank Project
Member, Washington State Health Infrastructure Advisory Board &
Chair, Consumer and Provider Engagement Committee
Executive Director, Maryland Health Care Commission
Director of Public Health Informatics, Denver Public Health
Principal Investigator, Colorado Regional Health Information Organization
Acting Director, Office of Programs & Coordination, Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Principal, C3 Consulting LLC
President, Vermont Information Technology Leaders, Inc.
Accenture Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University
Director, Regional Informatics, Vanderbilt Center for Better Health
Partner and Leader of the Health Industry IT (HIT) Practice, Health Industry Advisory Group, PricewaterhouseCoopers
Former Chief Medical Officer, Allscripts Healthcare Solutions
Partners HealthCare System
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Chief Information Officer, CareGroup Health System
Chair, Independent National Physician Advisory Board, OptumInsight
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Chair, Independent National Physician Advisory Board, OptumInsight
Co-Chair, Health Care Industry Team, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
Project Director, HISPC-Illinois
Executive Assistant to the Director for Customer Service, Illinois Department of Public Health
Director, Center for Health Informatics Division of Health Policy, Minnesota Department of Health
Executive Vice President Products & Services, Surescripts
Chief Medical Informatics Officer, Siemens Healthcare
Executive Vice Chair, Board of Trustees, New York-Presbyterian Hospital, The University Hospital of Columbia and Cornell
President and Chief Executive Officer, Visiting Nurse Service of New York
Director, AcademyHealth
Research Vice President, Government and Healthcare, Gartner Inc.
Executive Vice President of Policy, Strategy and International Affairs, AARP
Director of Molecular Epidemiology Genomics Environment and Health, RTI International
Chief Executive Officer, Axolotl Corporation
General Manager, Healthcare Industry Solutions Group, Microsoft Corporation
Director, Healthcare Practice, Deloitte Consulting LLP
Project Director, Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System (AHCCCS) Health Information Exchange and Electronic Health Record Utility (HIeHR Utility) Project