Brian Ahier works as Health IT Evangelist at Mid-Columbia Medical Center. He is a City Councilor in The Dalles, Oregon and also serves on the Board of Mid-Columbia Council of Governments, and Q-Life, an intergovernmental agency providing broadband capacity to the region. Brian helped develop the Oregon strategic and operational plans for implementing State-Level HIE under the State Health Information Exchange Cooperative Agreement. After the plan was approved by the ONC he was appointed by the State of Oregon Health Information Technology Oversight Council (HITOC) as Chairperson of the Technology Workgroup responsible for developing a framework and providing input for technology goals, including deliverables and objectives, standards, and definition of central services. Brian now sits on Oregon's HIO Executive Panel as implementation of statewide services is under way. He has worked extensively on the Direct Project including contracting with the ONC to facilitate a Direct Project Boot Camp for state health IT coordinators from around the nation. Brian is also President of Gorge Health Connect, Inc. (GHC) a health information exchange organization in the Columbia Gorge where they implemented one of the first Direct Project pilot. He has written for Government Health IT, Healthcare IT News, and iHealthBeat and he blogs at O'Reilly Radar and on his own site at http://ahier.blogspot.com. He also frequently provides industry updates on Twitter at http://twitter.com/ahier.

Role at VMware: Senior Business Strategist focused on the healthcare sector. This entails partnering with clients’ leadership to develop an end-to-end strategy for leveraging cloud computing and virtualization in support of Meaning Use and Computerized Physician Order Entry (CPOE) mandates. Scope of work includes architecting robust and cost-effective clinical computing infrastructure for healthcare providers.

Was the Chief Engineer in Kaiser Permanente's Enterprise Engineering organization overseeing multiple technology verticals including virtualization, end-user computing, Citrix infrastructure and Wintel engineering. Directly involved in Kaiser's electronic health records program implementation (2003-2009) based on Epic’s platform. Led design and build-out of a 220,000-seat managed end-user services as well as a Citrix application delivery platform for the Epic Hyperspace client software. Created the Availability Program Office for Kaiser’s IT group focused on uptime and stability of mission-critical applications through active root-cause analysis and defect management disciplines. Previously with Wells Fargo Bank as Director of Engineering for the End-User Computing group. Also was Director of Systems Engineering with TRW Financial Systems responsible for development and delivery of many custom applications for Fortune 100 companies based on workflow, imaging and business process re-engineering.

Ernie Anaya has over 20 years of experience in the Healthcare industry. Ernie is a subject matter expert in the areas of Enterprise Resiliency including Information Security, Business Continuity, Risk, Storage Area Networks, Cloud Storage, Backup & Recovery, Archival, HIPAA Compliance, Meaningful Use, Electronic Medical Records, Radiology PACS, DICOM Vendor Neutral Archive, e-Commerce, Document Management, Project Management, and Supply Chain Management.

Prior to joining SunGard, Ernie was a Program Manager for Healthcare Technology Solutions with Iron Mountain architecting cloud storage solutions in support of healthcare applications. In addition, Ernie spent nine years with EMC Corporation in different roles from Technology Business Consultant to Client Solutions Director with EMC Consulting Services addressing Storage, Backup & Archive, Business Continuity, Data Center Consolidation, Server Virtualization, and Information Security Consulting.

Other experience includes District Manager with Xerox, Marketing Manager at Cardinal Health responsible for $300 million portfolio and developing a Just-in-Time delivery of pharmaceuticals to hospital pharmacies, Strategic Accounts Manager with GE Medical Systems and Account Manager with Abbott Laboratories. Ernie is a former US Army Officer (Field Artillery) achieving the rank of Captain and serving with the First Cavalry Division earning two Army Achievement Medals, the Army Commendation Medal.

Mr. Barlow is a co-founder of HQC and former CEO of the company. He oversees all development activities for HQC's suite of products and services. Mr. Barlow is a founding member and former chair of the Healthcare Data Warehousing Association. He began his career in healthcare over 18 years ago at Intermountain Healthcare, and acted as a member of the team that led Intermountain's nationally recognized improvements in quality of care delivery and reductions in cost.

Mr. Barlow holds a BS from the University of Utah in health education and promotion.

Mark A. Del Beccaro, MD, is an attending physician at Seattle Children’s Hospital and professor at the University of Washington School of Medicine. He has served as associate director of the Division of Emergency Medicine, the hospital’s Chief Medical information Officer and is now pediatrician-in-chief for Seattle Children’s and the vice chair for clinical affairs for the Department of Pediatrics

Betsy Boyd-Flynn, MA, CAE, is Deputy Executive Vice President and COO of the Oregon Medical Association.  She has been working for medical associations since 2001, and for the OMA since 2007. Her work at OMA focuses on strategic planning and member services, public relations, and coalition work with health care stakeholders. She helped create a program for OMA members in conjunction with O-HITEC, Oregon’s regional extension center to aid them in getting enrolled in the meaningful use incentive program. She has represented the OMA on the finance workgroup for Oregon’s Health Information Technology Oversight Council. She serves on the Board of the Oregon Society of Association Management, and has been an active member of the American Society of Association Executives since 2001, including service as a member of the advisory board for the Journal of Association leadership, and various ad hoc activities.

Barry P. Chaiken, MD, MPH, FHIMSS has over 20 years experience in healthcare information technology, patient safety, clinical transformation, and public health. During his career, he worked with the National Institutes of Health, U.K ’s. National Health Service, McKesson, and BearingPoint. Over the past 15 years Chaiken provided expertise in quality and patient safety to provider and payor organizations helping them utilize information technology to improve clinical and administrative activities. He has served as guest lecturer and consultant on topics including patient safety, clinician adoption of information technology, quality improvement and managed care. Chaiken also assisted hospitals and technology firms in the creation of medical software products and authoring of marketing communication materials. Chaiken is board certified in General Preventive Medicine and Public Health as well as Health Care Quality Management. He is currently Chief Medical Officer at DocsNetwork, Ltd. where he offers clients his expertise in strategy development, clinical transformation, and quality improvement. Chaiken serves as a Healthcare Advisory Board member at Imprivata, Inc, ProtoHIT, Inc., and Symphony Corporation, and as Senior Fellow at the Institute for Health Technology Transformation. He has delivered more than 60 CME lectures, and is currently on the editorial board of the Journal of Patient Safety and the journal of Patient Safety and Quality Healthcare. Chaiken writes a column on technology and quality for the journal Patient Safety and Quality Health Care. He also serves as Conference Chair of the annual Digital Healthcare Conference and is a frequent contributor to WTN Media’s online publications. Chaiken received his medical degree from SUNY Downstate Medical Center, NYC, his masters in public health degree in health services administration from the Harvard School of Public Health and his bachelors of arts degree in psychology from the University at Albany. He acquired his specialty training from the Centers for Disease Control as an Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer and from the New Jersey State Department of Health as a preventive medicine resident. He served as a Board member (2006-2010), Board Liaison to HIMSS Europe (2006-2009), and Board Chair (2009-2010), and continues his involvement as a Fellow of the Health Information Management and Systems Society (HIMSS). 14 Durham Street, Boston, MA 02115-5301 · (617) 536-3138 · bchaiken@docsnetwork.com

Dr. Ray Costantini is a physician executive and passionate advocate of innovative approaches to providing high value healthcare. His current focus area is web-based healthcare services including patient engagement tools, remote care models, and mHealth services. Dr. Costantini currently works as the Regional Medical Director of eHealth for Providence Health & Services, a not-for-profit Catholic health care ministry committed to serving the needs of its millions of patients and health plans members in 42 communities in Alaska, California, Montana, Oregon and Washington.

Within eHealth, Dr. Costantini has applied his expertise and unique insights to develop and direct the region’s vision, goals and strategy for expanding Providence’s web-based clinical tools. These include the myProvidence healthcare consumer portal, shared decision making tools, telemedicine and telehealth services, and incentives systems for patients and providers. These services that have helped Providence improve population health, reduce health costs, and improve the experience of health care.

Dr. Costantini received a B.S. in Psychology and Biochemistry, an M.D. from the University of Arizona and an M.B.A. from the Thunderbird School of International Business. He is the Chair of the Oregon Region Telehealth and Telemedicine committees, and sits on the HIMSS Personal Health IT task force.

Lynne A. Dunbrack is a nationally recognized thought leader in the application of information technology (IT) to the business problems of the health industry. Her understanding of industry needs is grounded in experience over the last 25 years working in a variety of positions in the healthcare field. As program director for the IDC Health Insights' Connected Health IT Strategies program, Ms. Dunbrack provides research-based advisory and consulting services that enable payer, provider, life science and vendor executives to maximize the business value of their connected health strategies. Specific areas of Ms. Dunbrack's in-depth coverage include telemedicine utilizing video conferencing; telediagnostics; online care on demand; remote patient monitoring; mobile health; aging in place; and enabling technologies such as health information exchange (HIE) and electronic health records.Ms. Dunbrack blogs in the IDC Health Insights Community (http://idc-insights-community.com/health). Before joining IDC Health Insights, Ms. Dunbrack was a Product Manager for MA-SHARE, LLC, one of the nation’s first regional health information organizations (RHIOs). Prior to that, Ms. Dunbrack was Director of Product Management at NaviMedix, Inc. (now NaviNet). She also served as the Director of HIPAA Compliance. As former Senior Healthcare Analyst and Practice Leader of Gartner's Healthcare practice, Ms. Dunbrack set the research agenda and contributed to specialty areas such as physician market trends, practice management, managed care, enterprise scheduling, contract management, workflow improvement and system selection and implementation. Prior to joining Gartner, Ms. Dunbrack held senior positions with IDX Systems Corporation and Tufts Associated Health Plan. Ms. Dunbrack has been quoted by national media outlets such as The Wall Street Journal, Investor's Business Daily, The New York Times, and San Jose Business Journal. She also speaks regularly at industry conferences. Ms. Dunbrack holds a B.A. from the College of the Holy Cross, and an M.B.A. with a concentration in healthcare management and an M.S. in Management Information Systems from Boston University's Graduate School of Management.

A family physician by training, Dr. Fraser is currently the Chief Medical Information Officer at WVP Health Authority, a 500-member independent physicians association in Salem, Oregon, where he has led an ambulatory electronic health records initiative since 2005. He is the chair of the Salem Area Community Health Information Exchange Development Committee, an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Medical Informatics and Clinical Epidemiology at Oregon Health & Science University, a member of the board of directors for the Oregon Health Network, and serves on the Program Committee for the Oregon Health Care Quality Corporation’s Partner for Quality Care project. As a member of the State of Oregon’s Health Information Technology Oversight Council, Dr. Fraser has helped to craft Oregon’s Hea! lth Information Exchange strategic and operational plans.

Fred Galusha, Chief Information Officer for Inland Northwest Health Services, oversees all information systems and medical informatics for the six Spokane tertiary hospitals and twenty-four regional facilities within the INHS network including information systems and software development, telecommunications and the Advanced Technology Group (ATG). Prior to joining INHS, Fred was the Vice-President for the Information Systems organization of Florida Hospital in Orlando, Florida, the third largest non-government hospital in the United States. Fred also created, selected and successfully implemented the information technology for the futuristic healthcare facility “Celebration Health” developed by Florida Hospital at Disney's Celebration City near Orlando, Florida. Fred holds BS and MBA degrees from Andrews University, in Berrien Springs, Michigan. He is a member of College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) and Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) and has taught Computer Science at an undergraduate college.

David Garets, Executive Director, Advisory Board Company

Prior to that, he was Executive Vice President of Healthlink and before that, Group Vice President, Healthcare Industry Research and Advisory Services at Gartner, Inc. Prior leadership roles included Senior Manager in Emerging Practices with the First Consulting Group and CIO of Magic Valley Regional Medical Center in Twin Falls, ID. Before coming to the health care industry, Mr. Garets spent thirteen years in various management capacities for AT&T.

He was a course director and served on the faculties of the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) Information Management Executive Courses for 11 years. He serves on the editorial advisory boards of four health care information technology journals and magazines and the board of directors of HIMSS Analytics. He is an affiliate professor at the Medical College of Virginia at Virginia Commonwealth University.

Mr. Garets is a HIMSS Fellow, and was chair of the HIMSS Board for 2003-2004. He is an internationally known author and speaker on information technologies, strategies, benchmarking, and the future of healthcare.

Mr. Garets graduated with a bachelor's of business administration in marketing from Texas Tech University.

Richard Gibson, MD, PhD, MBA is Chief Health Care Intelligence Officer at Providence Health and Services – Oregon Region. His current responsibility is business and clinical analytics for a $2.8 Billion integrated delivery network with a 400,000 member health plan, eight hospitals, 1200 beds, and 600 employed physicians. He is Affiliate Assistant Professor in the Department of Medical Informatics and Clinical Epidemiology at Oregon Health and Science University. Previously he was Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer at Legacy Health in Portland. Before that he served 11 years as Chief Medical Information Officer at Providence Health System – Oregon Region. He received a BS from Stanford University, MD from Case Western Reserve University, PhD in Medical Informatics in 1995 from the University of Utah with a fellowship at Intermountain Health Care in Salt Lake City, and an MBA from the Wharton School. He is a founding Board Member of the Association of Medical Directors of Information Systems (AMDIS). He is President of Oregon Health Network, a non-profit dedicated to connecting all Oregon community colleges, hospitals, and rural and federally qualified health clinics to a fully in-state, high bandwidth, low latency network. Dr. Gibson is a family physician and emergency physician.

Clayton is the Executive Director of O-HITEC, Oregon’s regional extension center for health care IT and holds a Masters of Business Administration and a Masters of Healthcare Administration, both from the University of Washington; he also has a Bachelor’s Degree in Biology with an emphasis in genetics from the University of Utah.  Clayton has worked in health care IT for more than 15 years.  Prior to working at OCHIN he was the Associate Director of Clinical Informatics at Group Health Cooperative of Puget Sound.  After working for GHC Seattle he worked for 2.5 years as a consultant in a large independent firm providing strategic advice, implementation assistance and general consulting services to integrated delivery systems, MSOs, hospitals and large group practices. Mr. Gillett has been EpicCare and Allscripts EMR certified and has worked with a variety of other practice management and EMR systems.

Greg Gillespie, Editor-in-Chief at Health Data Management, has served a variety of editorial roles with the magazine over the past decade, including Managing Editor, Senior Editor and News Editor. HDM has been recognized for its superior editorial content by the American Business Media’s Jesse H. Neal Awards, as well as editorial awards from the ASBPE and ASHPE.

Greg previously was the editor of THE INSTITUTE newspaper of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), a publication that went out to the more than 300,000 members of the world’s largest technological association. Prior to that he worked for a number of East Coast and Chicagoland newspapers, covering everything from criminal courts to sports, arts and entertainment.