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Appendix E Biographical Sketches
Pages 187-192

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From page 187...
... He chairs the End of Life Committee convened by the American College of Physicians - American Society of Internal Medicine, which is developing consensus recommendations for clinical care near the end of life. He directs the national coordinating office for the Initiative to Strengthen the Patient - Provider Relationship in a Changing Health Care Environment, funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
From page 188...
... The HCACC implemented many initiatives, including report cards providing information on the quality and performance of health maintenance organizations and standards for the operation of electronic health networks. Before this, Mr.
From page 189...
... The Health Privacy Project also recently released two reports: The State of Health Privacy: An Uneven Terrain/A Comprehensive Survey of State Health Privacy Statutes and Best Principles for Health Privacy: A Report of the Health Privacy Working Group. CRAIG WALTER HENDRIX is associate professor of medicine, Division of Clinical Pharmacology, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, where he is currently director of the Johns Hopkins' University Drug Development Unit.
From page 190...
... Dr. Iezzoni has conducted numerous studies for the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research, the Health Care Financing Administration, and private foundations on a variety of topics, including the use of clinical data to predict hospitalization costs and patient outcomes, comparing severity of illness across teaching and nonteaching hospitals, evaluating the utility of severity information for quality assessment, identifying complications of care using administrative data, and using information from hospital data systems to predict patient clinical and functional outcomes.
From page 191...
... In 1994, Mr. Stone organized the Affiliated Health Information Networks of New England project to improve the state's electronic health care information infrastructure among health plans and providers through standards required by the federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability.
From page 192...
... Ms. Waller has spoken extensively on health information technology law issues for organizations such as the American Bar Association, the American Health Lawyers Association, American Health Information Management Association, University Health System Consortium, Association for Health Services Research, and the Healthcare Information Management Systems Society.


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