Steering Committee

Don Bechtel is a Standards and Regulatory Manager for Siemens Medical Solutions Health Services Division (Siemens HS) and Chief Privacy Officer for Healthcare Data Exchange (HDX), a division of Siemens HS. Don's duties include positioning Siemens HS and HDX for standards and regulatory compliance with respect to privacy, security and X12 transaction standards. He has been employed with Siemens HS since 1969, where he has held a variety of technical and management positions in operations, product development, field operations, new business development, standards and regulatory compliance. Throughout his tenure, he has been involved with regulatory affairs that affect hospitals and health organizations. He serves as co-chair of the X12N Health Care Task Group, as DSMO Primary Representative for ASC X12, as a member of the HITSP Board of Directors (representing ASC X12) and the WEDI Board of Directors, and as co-chair of the WEDI SNIP Steering Committee.
Betsy Clore is a Sr. Analyst/Programmer supporting Wake Forest University Physicians Business Operations for Wake Forest University Health Sciences in Winston-Salem, NC. For the last seven years, her primary responsibility has been implementation of HIPAA-related mandates for transactions, code sets and identifiers. Betsy has been a member of the NCHICA Transactions, Code Sets and Identifiers Workgroup since 2001 and began serving as one of the co-chairs in 2004. She has participated in WEDI subworkgroups for six years and has been representing WFUHS at ASC X12 since January 2005. She recently became a co-chair of the Provider Caucus industry meeting associated with the ASC X12 Trimester meetings.
Ed Hafner is Chief Technology Officer for Foresight Corporation. He has 25 years of experience in software technical direction, product strategy and solution delivery, and has been involved with EDI since 1983. He has been instrumental in the development of Foresight's Transaction Insight, a health care transaction automation solution that validates incoming documents against HIPAA and other standards, integrates through workflow routing, allows for correction of non-compliant documents, and provides critical operational data to find and fix system errors. Ed is active within WEDI SNIP as a board member and currently co-chairs the Transaction work group. He also co-chairs HCCO Certification and is involved in AFEHCT and CAQH's CORE initiative.
Gerald Land is an Application Systems Analyst/Programmer for UNC Healthcare. He has been an NCHICA member since 2001 and co-chair of the NCHICA Transactions, Code Sets and Identifiers Workgroup since 2005. Prior to joining UNC Healthcare, he spent seven years at Envoy/WEBMD as an Implementation Analyst, Technical Support Analyst, and Senior Business/Technical Analyst.
Stanley Nachimson is principal of Nachimson Advisors, a health IT consulting firm dedicated to finding innovative uses for health information technology and encouraging its adoption. The firm serves a number of clients, including WEDI and Cornichon Health Care. Stanley served for over 30 years in the US Department of Health and Human Services in a variety of statistical, management and health technology positions. His last ten years prior to his 2007 retirement were spent in developing HIPAA policy, regulations, and implementation planning and monitoring, beginning CMS's work on Personal Health Records, and serving as the CMS liaison with several industry organizations, including WEDI and HITSP. He brings a wealth of experience and information regarding the use of standards and technology in the health care industry. In addition to his consulting work, Stanley serves on the Board of Directors of Foresight Corporation, and on the Maryland Health Care Commission's Privacy and Security Solutions and Implementation Workgroup.