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Daniel Barchi, SVP & CIO, Yale Health System
Daniel Barchi is Chief Information Officer of the $3.0 B, 2,100 bed, 19,000 employee Yale School of Medicine and the Yale-New Haven Health System. He leads a team of 500 informatics and technology specialists and has implemented a $300 M Electronic Medical Record (EMR) project. Before joining Yale, he was Senior Vice President and CIO of the $1.4 B Carilion Health System and led the integration of Carilion’s seven hospitals and 140 physician practices though implementation of a $98 M electronic medical record. He was also responsible for technology at the Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine.
Daniel was previously President of the Carilion Biomedical Institute and Director of Technology and Engineering for MCI WorldCom. In both roles was appointed as CEO, COO, and Chief Restructuring Officer of privately held and venture-backed companies in the healthcare and technology industries. Earlier, Daniel was MCI's Director of Global Project Management responsible for product deployment in Europe, Asia, and the Americas. Daniel began his career as a U.S. Naval officer and served at sea in cruisers. During his service, he was awarded the Navy Commendation Medal, the Southeast Asia Service Medal for service in the Red Sea, and the NATO Service Medal for operations in the Balkans.
Daniel holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Annapolis, the U.S. Naval Academy, and a Master of Engineering Management degree from Old Dominion University. He is active on several corporate and community service boards and he is a marathon runner.
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Rachel Block, Deputy Commissioner, Office of Health Information Technology, New York State Department of Health
Rachel Block is Deputy Commissioner for Health Information Technology Transformation in the NYS Department of Health, where she has overseen development and implementation of New York’s statewide health information technology strategy since May 2009. She was the founding executive director for the New York eHealth Collaborative (NYeC), a statewide multi-stakeholder organization committed to advancing health information technology adoption and use in New York from 2006-2009.
Previously, Rachel was the project director for the United Hospital Fund's Quality Strategies Initiative where she developed several initiatives to coordinate improvements in health care delivery and outcomes across the health care system in New York, including the planning process which led to creating NYeC. She also held several ! senior management positions at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (previously Health Care Financing Administration) where she directed policy development and operations of Medicaid, State Children's Health Insurance, and Federal Survey and Certification Programs, with particular emphasis on quality improvement, data and systems issues. Rachel worked for Vermont Governor Howard Dean on health reform from 1992-94. She also worked for the New York State Legislature from 1978-92 focusing on health policy and financing.
Rachel is a past president of the board for the eHealth Initiative and currently serves on its Leadership Council.
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Bruce Brandes, EVP & Chief Strategy Officer, AirStrip
After more than two decades as a leader in the healthcare information technology and services marketplace, Bruce Brandes is focused on identifying and leading the strategic initiatives that will drive the growth and expansion of AirStrip.
Prior to joining AirStrip, Bruce built an extensive record of success in developing and growing sales and marketing organizations that listen to and understand clients' needs while collaboratively solving challenges and improving outcomes.Bruce's teams consistently overachieved objectives at healthcare information technology companies, including HealthStream, Inc., Eclipsys Corporation, McKesson/HBOC and IBM.
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Chad Brisendine, VP & CIO, St. Luke's Hospital & Health Network
Chad T. Brisendine, CHCIO serves as the Vice President and Chief Information Officer for St. Luke’s University Health Network, a regional network of hospitals, physicians and other related organizations providing care primarily in Lehigh, Northampton, Monroe, Carbon, Schuylkill, Bucks, Montgomery and Berks counties in Pennsylvania and Warren County in New Jersey. The network has over 8,600 employees, a total of 1,325 physicians on the Medical Staff and more than 1,350 volunteers. In this role he is responsible for Information Technology, Business Intelligence, Medical Records, Transcription, Service Improvement and the Network’s Call Center.
Chad joined St. Luke’s University Health Network in 2009 after serving as the as the Corporate Director for New Technology and Delivery for CHRISTUS Health in Texas. He also served as a Regional CIO for the health system which includes 44 hospitals and facilities in 6 states and Mexico. He has over 15 years of experience in working with the business to leverage IT for competitive advantage and operational improvement with expertise in change management, levering new and emerging technologies, project management and ITIL.
Chad earned his bachelor’s degree in Business Administration and a Masters in Business Administration from University of the Incarnate Word, San Antonio, TX
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Blair Butterfield, President, North America, VitalHealth Software
Blair Butterfield is a senior health IT executive and ehealth expert with over twenty years of global experience in new market and business development, general management, government initiatives, strategic marketing, product strategy, and consulting. In his most recent role, he served as Vice President, eHealth International Development at GE Healthcare, an $18 billion division of General Electric. In this role, he led multi-function globally distributed teams on strategic and commercial initiatives in North America, Europe, the Middle East, China, and the Asia Pacific region. Previously, he served as Senior Director of Government Initiatives at GE Healthcare IT, and before that he was President of Butterfield & Company International, a boutique executive search and consulting firm operating in the health IT sector.
Blair is a frequent invited speaker at international, national and regional ehealth events, and serves on national workgroups on interoperability, consent management, and electronic health records (HIE). He has served on the executive management team of four companies as well as on the Board of Directors of the eHealth Initiative and Foundation, the Vista Software Alliance, and the California Institute of Computer Assisted Surgery.
After graduating from Yale University, Blair spent the first part of his career in advanced applications for medical imaging and image-guided neurosurgery, working with luminary sites nationally and internationally to pioneer innovative technologies for minimally invasive diagnosis and treatment. Born in Bermuda, he is a dual US/UK citizen, multi-lingual, who has lived in nine countries.
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Rainu Kaushal, MD, MPH, Chief of the Division of Quality and Medical Informatics, Weill Cornell Medical College, Director, Pediatric Quality and Safety, Phyllis and David Komansky Center for Children's Health at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, Executive Director, Health Information Technology Evaluation Collaborative (HITEC)
Dr. Rainu Kaushal, MD, MPH is the Director of the Center for Healthcare Informatics and Policy and Frances and John L. Loeb Professor of Medical Informatics at Weill Cornell Medical College, the Director of Pediatric Quality for the Komansky Center for Children's Health at New York-Presbyterian Hospital, and the Executive Director of the Health Information Technology Evaluation Collaborative (HITEC) for New York State. Dr. Kaushal is an international expert on the effectiveness, cost-effectiveness and comparative effectiveness of health information technology, health information exchange and novel health care delivery models. She has been a principal investigator on many grants in this area. Dr. Kaushal has published more than 100 scholarly publications, has served on numerous national advisory committees, has formally consulted with other researchers as well as with policy makers, and has served on editorial boards for health care journals as well as on several study sections for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Dr. Kaushal is a frequent invited national and international speaker. Dr. Kaushal is engaged in research, patient care, management and operations activities at Weill Cornell Medical College and New York-Presbyterian Hospital, all geared toward using health IT to optimize the value of health care today.
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Irene Koch, Executive Director, Brooklyn Health Information Exchange
Irene M. Koch is the Executive Director of the Brooklyn Health Information Exchange (BHIX), a regional health information organization in New York City. In that role, which she has held since its formation in 2007, she oversees the operations and strategic initiatives of BHIX, including collaborative care projects and support for other innovative patient-centered models of care.
Ms. Koch served as Associate General Counsel at Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, from 1996-2006. Previously, she was Assistant Counsel with the New York State Department of Health in the Bureau of Professional Medical Conduct (1994-96) and a litigation associate at Willkie Farr & Gallagher (1989-1994). Ms. Koch earned a J.D. from Fordham University School of Law and a B.A. from Cornell University.
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John McDaniel, National Practice Leader – US Healthcare Provider Market, US Public Sector Division, NetApp
John McDaniel has more than 35 years of experience as a healthcare CIO, consulting services executive and as an executive with large healthcare companies. John currently works with NetApp and is responsible for managing partnerships with large healthcare GSI’s. As a CIO, John worked with St. Vincent Catholic Medical Center, McLaren Health Care Corporation and The Emory Clinic where he also served as Director Medical Informatics. John was also a member of the Board of Directors for NYC-based HIE: NYCLIX. As a consulting services executive he worked with Dell Services, Deloitte Consulting and EMR Transitions. John worked with Siemens as Project Director and SVP at, McKesson. Additionally John worked closely with Cerner where he led the partnership to develop the first multi-hospital CDR. John is very familiar with Big Data applications and infrastructure requirements. While at McLaren his team was the first healthcare organization to take medical records paperless in a multi-hospital system. He is frequent speaker and National and Regional healthcare conferences.
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Patricia Morrison, EVP, Customer Care Shared Services, Chief Information Officer, Cardinal Health
Patricia Morrison is executive vice president and chief information officer of Cardinal Health, a Fortune 17 health care products and services company dedicated to improving the cost-effectiveness of health care. In this role, Morrison is responsible for the company's enterprise-wide information technology. She reports to George Barrett, chairman and chief executive officer of Cardinal Health.
Most recently, Morrison was EVP and CIO for Motorola, where she oversaw all strategic, operational and financial aspects of the company's information technology architecture, systems, tools, processes and infrastructure. During her tenure, Motorola focused the IT portfolio on expansion of retail channel capability, enabled the transformation to a global single supply chain and successfully integrated many key acquisitions and divestitures. Her previous experience also includes CIO of Office Depot, Inc.; and senior-level information technology positions at General Electric Co., PepsiCo, Inc., The Procter & Gamble Co. and The Quaker Oats Co.
Morrison currently serves as a member of the Board of Directors of Jo-Ann Stores, Inc., where she chairs the governance committee. She is also on the board of governors for Lumity, a non-profit organization that provides IT services to other non-profits in Chicago.
Morrison's reach within the IT and business community has spanned 25 years, across four different industries. A respected and experienced IT professional, she was named 2007 CIO of the Year by the Executives' Club of Chicago and the Association of Information Technology Professionals. She was also inducted to the CIO Magazine Hall of Fame in 2008. She has dedicated her career to using technology to solving business problems.
Morrison holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in mathematics and statistics and a Bachelor of Science degree in secondary education from Miami University.
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Frank Nydam, Healthcare CTO, VMware
Frank Nydam is the Director for Healthcare Solutions, responsible for VMware’s Healthcare strategy, market development and solutions. Frank joined VMware in 2002 and has been primarily focused on the application of virtualization technologies in the Life Sciences and Healthcare Provider industry segments. In his current role Frank collaborates with a broad range of Healthcare ecosystem partners including hospitals, clinical application providers and industry groups to help deliver safer more efficient Healthcare solutions. As a member of VMware’s Office of the CTO, Frank is responsible for helping align product and technology strategy as well as incubating new solutions. Before joining VMware, Frank was the Director of Technology at a national Microsoft Business Solutions partner responsible for application development and infrastructure staff and services. Frank holds a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering/Management from Kent State University, Executive MBA’s certificates in Finance and Healthcare studies. Frank is a member of HIMSS and represents VMware’s as their executive liaison to CHIME. VMware is a Premier Foundation Member of CHIME and Diamond Member of HIMSS.
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Laurie Poole, Vice President, Telemedicine Solutions, Ontario Telemedicine Network
Laurie is the Vice President, Telemedicine Solutions at the Ontario Telemedicine Network (OTN). She has worked in the field of telehealth for 16 years and has provided leadership and oversight for a number of innovative telehealth programs in Canada. In addition to her responsibilities for OTN’s Emergency Services and Teleophthalmology programs, Laurie is currently overseeing the implementation of a provincial Telehomecare program expansion modelled on OTN’s successful phase one pilot.
A registered nurse with a Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing and a Master’s Degree in Health Services Administration, Laurie is also the Past President of the Canadian Society of Telehealth (CST). She is a recognized expert in her field and is frequently invited to speak at national and international events.
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Philip A. Smith, MD, President, MedMorph, LLC
Philip is President of MedMorph, LLC, which specializes in Healthcare IT Consulting. Prior to founding MedMorph, Dr Smith was Chief Medical Information Officer for over nine years for the 43-hospital Adventist Health System, in Altamonte Springs, Florida. There he led their vision and implementation for physician automation including CPOE, physician documentation and clinical decision support. All these hospitals also achieved HIMSS Analytics Stage 6 or 7 as well as Meaningful Use Phase 1 in FY2011. He is author of the newly published book, Making Computerized Provider Order Entry Work (Springer-Verlag, London, 2013). |
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Richard Tayrien, DO, FACOI, Chief Health Information Officer, VP, Clinical Services Group, HCA Healthcare
Dr. Tayrien leads a team of clinicians and informaticists responsible for the design, configuration, implementation and support of advanced health information technologies at HCA. The EHR team drives clinical transformation of HCA’s acute and ambulatory care facilities enabling improvement in efficiency, efficacy and quality in patient care by engaging physicians in transactional use of the technology. Parallel, Dr. Tayrien provides leadership for HITECH compliance assuring that HCA is on track to satisfy Stage “Meaningful Use” requirements across 162 hospitals.
Dr. Tayrien is also leading migration to the next generation electronic health record at HCA. Aligned with the organizations movement toward an integrated delivery model, the EHR, enterprise clinical data warehouse, and HIE will provide the foundation for patient-centric care coordination, evidence-based clinical-decision support, and innovation spawned from advanced clinical analytics, and predictive modeling.
Before coming to HCA, Dr Tayrien practiced internal medicine at St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center and Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix, Arizona for 18 years. He also served as a member of the teaching faculty and was a founding member, Medical Director and Executive Director of a PHO a 40 physician primary care group, and a hospitalist group at St. Josephs. A leader in applied informatics at the medical center he subsequently assumed the role of CMIO for Catholic Healthcare West, where he led the development and implementation of advanced clinical systems for 8 years. He simultaneously developed standards for the EHR while serving on the Inpatient Clinical Work Group of the Certification Commission for Health Information Technology. He currently serves on industry advisory boards informing patient and medication safety, and applied informatics.
Dr. Tayrien was awarded the John Shaw Billings award for Medical Informatics by the Department of Medical Education at St. Joseph’s Medical Center and has been recognized by the Association of Medical Directors of Information Systems (AMDIS) for his leadership in Applied Medical Informatics.
Dr. Tayrien graduated with honors from Oklahoma State University, College of Osteopathic Medicine and completed his residency in Internal Medicine at OSU Medical Center in Tulsa. He is board-certified and a Fellow in the American College of Osteopathic Internists. |
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Jonathan P. Weiner, DrPH, , Professor and Director of the Center for Population Health IT, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore Maryland
Jonathan P. Weiner, DrPH, is a professor of health policy and management at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore. He is also a professor of health informatics at Johns Hopkins. He is the director of the newly formed Johns Hopkins Center for Population Health IT (CPHIT). Dr. Weiner is an internationally regarded researcher, consultant and lecturer. His current work focuses on the application of electronic health records (EHRs) and Health IT for population based applications. He is the co-developer of the Johns Hopkins ACG case-mix / predictive modeling tool now widely applied to care for 80 million patients in more than 18 nations. |
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Shannon Werb, COO & CSO, Acuo Technologies
Shannon M. Werb became Chief Operating Officer and Chief Strategy Officer in August 2011 where he is instrumental in driving strategic planning, product marketing, operations and new business initiatives. Mr. Werb joined Acuo Technologies in 2001 and has served a variety of management roles in product development, strategy and sales/marketing including most recently Chief Technical Officer.
From 1995—2001, Mr. Werb was Director of Information Technology for Suburban Radiologic Consultants, Ltd., a large Minneapolis-based private radiology group operating five independent imaging centers and providing professional services to six area hospitals in the Twin Cities. In 1997, Suburban Radiologic Consultants formed MediLinks.net, a medical IT consulting firm, and Mr. Werb served as its Vice President of Tech! nology and Chief Operating Officer, as well as serving on its Board of Directors. |
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