Rex Cowdry, MD, MPH
Executive Director, Maryland Health Care Commission
"There are many things for a state Health Care Commission to love about Markle Connecting for Health. Its issues are cutting edge, and its reports move the field by developing both public policies and technical solutions. It takes an area of controversy or uncertainty, adds broad input and expertise, and emerges with a useful document and near consensus.
Most interestingly, it brings diverse stakeholders with diverging interests together - and ends up with substantive documents rather than mealy-mouthed consensus statements. The Framework - particularly the policy statements - have played a vital role in our state's deliberations about health information exchanges. Finally, Markle Connecting for Health is relentlessly centered on the patient/consumer - as both our health care systems and our health information systems must be."
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
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