Healtheway Announces 2015 Board Members
Health IT Industry Leaders to Serve on Board of Nonprofit
(firmenpresse) - MCLEAN, VA -- (Marketwired) -- 12/09/14 -- , a non-profit, public-private collaborative focused on advancing the implementation of interoperable health information exchange, today announced the members of its board of directors for fiscal year 2015. The new board includes a combination of individuals who have served on the board for many years as well as new additions to the organization's leadership structure.
According to Mariann Yeager, the CEO of Healtheway, "The purpose of the Healtheway Board of Directors is to help ensure that Healtheway maintains a consistent and true path for promoting efforts that support and promote nationwide interoperability initiatives. In the past year, the Board supported Healtheway's expansion beyond its focus on the eHealth Exchange to also assume the stewardship role for Carequality. We rely heavily on these senior leaders to help identify and promote activities that align with Healtheway's mission and our members' needs."
The 2015 Healtheway Board of Directors include:
Douglas Abel, Netsmart Technologies
Justin Barnes, Independent Advisor
Hans Buitendijk, Siemens Corporation
Jeff Cunningham, Informatics Corporation of America (ICA)
Peter DeVault, Epic
Jamie Ferguson, Kaiser Permanente
Dr. Michael Hodgkins, American Medical Association
Devin Jopp, WEDI
Katherine Lusk, Children's Medical Center of Dallas
Michael Matthews, MedVirginia
Paul Matthews, OCHIN
Venk Reddy, Walgreens
Joyce Sensmeier, HIMSS
Leigh Sterling, East Tennessee Health Information Network (etHIN)
Howard Thomas, Consultant, National Renal Administrators Association (NRAA)
Paul Uhrig, Surescripts
David Whitlinger, New York eHealth Collaborative
Governmental liaisons (non-voting) to the Healtheway board include:
Col. Albert Bonnema, Department of Defense
Jodi Daniel, Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC), Department of Health & Human Services
Dr, Margaret Donahue, Department of Veterans Affairs
Jason McNamara, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid
Katharine Murray, Department of Defense
Kitt Winter, Social Security Administration
The officers for the Healtheway board are: Chair, Michael Matthews; Vice Chair, Paul Uhrig; Treasurer, Devin Jopp; and Secretary, David Whitlinger.
Interested organizations can learn more about Healtheway's work by visiting the .
Healtheway is a non-profit 501c3 chartered to advance implementation of secure, interoperable nationwide health information exchange (HIE). Healtheway currently supports two initiatives: the eHealth Exchange, a rapidly growing community of exchange partners who share information under a common trust framework and a common set of rules; and Carequality, a public-private collaborative effort to build consensus among existing health IT data exchange programs regarding technical specifications and best practices (similar to when the banking industry created a nationwide ATM network). Healtheway leads in cross-industry collaboration to develop implementation strategies that enable secure, interoperable nationwide exchange of health information. For more information about Healtheway, the eHealth Exchange and Carequality, visit . Follow Healtheway on Twitter: and .
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