Wesley Rishel
Research Vice President, Government and Healthcare, Gartner Inc.
"With the Markle Connecting for Health Common Framework, the CFH project achieved a quantum step forward in conceiving the NHIN and making it practicable. Prior to its development, discussions on the operating approach and the architecture were so wide-ranging as to create confusion and frustrate meaningful debate. Once the Framework was published the government and industry rapidly coalesced around its fundamental principle that the NHIN is a network of health information exchange networks with no central technology or national operator. Since this common view has been established we have seen continual progress through work done by state and federal governments and individual health information exchanges. The Common Framework includes a large body of intellectual property contributed by project members that has helped to establish the credibility of the framework and can assist fledgling HIEs in startup activities. As the concept of the NHIN has evolved, the CFH group continues to look downstream, as is demonstrated by recent industry coalescence around CFH-developed principles for the PHR. The ability of CFH to attract the highest-level participants, frame the debate and move to consensus provides assurance that it will continue to lead the healthcare industry as the healthcare interoperability requirements and solutions evolve."
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
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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