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Appendix A: Speaker Biographies
Pages 47-56

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From page 47...
... While at Emory, he served as a consultant to epidemiology and emergency preparedness programs at the Division of Public Health of the Georgia Department of Human Resources. In 2006-2008, he served as the public health representative on the Georgia Health Information Technology and Transparency Advisory Board, where he focused on strengthening linkages between public health and health care through advances in health information technologies.
From page 48...
... He also serves on the Health Information Technology Standards Committee for the Office of the National Coordinator in HHS, and the HL7 Advisory Board. His recently held positions include chair of the biomedical computing and health informatics study section at NIH; chair of the board of the HL7/FDA/NCI/CDISC BRIDG project; member of the board of the Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium; American National Standards Institute Health Information Standards Technology Panel (HISTP)
From page 49...
... In his role at ONC, Dr. Fridsma is responsible for the Nationwide Health Information Network, the Federal Health Architecture, the EHR certification programs, and other initiatives focused on promoting interoperable health information exchange.
From page 50...
... Offering core capabilities like a community-wide master patient index, terminology standardization, episode grouping, and advanced analytics, HIEBus powers statewide and regional exchanges, regional care coordination networks, provider-centric clinical integration initiatives, and multicenter observa
From page 51...
... Current projects include models for e-health profiles, assessment of EHR adoption, and work as lead author for the revised chapter on public health informatics in upcoming fourth edition of Shortliffe and Cimino's Textbook of Biomedical Informatics.
From page 52...
... Mark Leenay, MS, MD, is one of our nation's experts on geriatrics and hospice and palliative care and is the chief medical officer and senior vice president at OptumHealth Care Solutions. As chief medical officer, he oversees all clinical programs, ranging from wellness to the most complex medical conditions.
From page 53...
... McCall served as chief information officer and as vice president, pharmacy management. Outside of Humana, she served as executive vice president of managed care business development for Allscripts Healthcare Solutions and as an actuarial consultant for Milliman, where she helped fashion novel risk-sharing arrangements and implement risk-adjustment methodologies.
From page 54...
... With his colleagues from the Regenstrief Institute, he created a community-wide electronic medical record (called the Indiana Network for Patient Care) containing data from many sources, including laboratories, pharmacies, and hospitals in central Indiana. The system currently connects a majority of acute care hospitals in Indiana and includes inpatient and outpatient encounter data, laboratory results, immunization data, and other selected data for 12 million patients.
From page 55...
... Overhage has played a significant regional and national leadership role in advancing the policy, standards, financing, and implementation of health information exchange. He serves on the Health Information Technology Standards Committee as well as the board of directors of the National Quality Forum, and is engaged in a number of national health care initiatives.


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