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Jennifer Anderson, MHSA, PMP, is an EHR
consultant and Manager of EHR Programs and Services for the
Carolinas Center for Medical Excellence (CCME), the CMS Quality
Improvement Organization for the Carolinas. She has experience implementing hospital and ambulatory
health information systems, as well as managing a medical group
practice. She received her Masters of Health Services Administration
from the University of Arkansas and is a certified Project Management
Professional. She is a member of the NC Medical
Society's Quality of Care and Performance Improvement Committee
and a member of the North and South Carolina Regional Extension
Center planning groups. |
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Gary Balser is an EHR consultant for the Carolinas Center
for Medical Excellence (CCME), where he provides project
management and EHR application expertise for outpatient physician
offices. He has more than 15 years experience in the EHR software
industry including application support, internal systems and
hardware support, software research and development, configuration
management, application and systems implementation, and project
management for EHR releases. He has degrees in Business Management and Engineering
Technology from Purdue University. |
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Reba Beavers, MBA, MHA is the nurse analyst
for CPOE implementation at Durham Regional Hospital. She has
held numerous staff and management level positions in nursing,
and for the past decade has focused on clinical informatics.
She was instrumental in the transition from paper to electronic records
for nursing documentation and CPOE implementation at Durham
Regional Hospital. She holds a BSN from North Carolina Central
University and a MBA/MHA from Pfeiffer University. |
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Linda Bunton, MBA is the Director
of ChoiceHealth, a subsidiary corporation of Novant Health, where she is responsible for the operations and business
development of a multi-state physician network. She has 24 years
of experience in healthcare administration and has been employed
with Novant Health for the last 11 years, initially as Director
of The Presbyterian Health Network. Prior to this, she was primarily
involved in physician practice management both in independent
physician practices and healthcare systems. She also has experience
in healthcare strategic planning. She earned her MBA from the
Babcock Graduate School of Management, Wake Forest University
and a BA from Davidson College. |
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Sherrie Drye Cannoy, PhD is an Assistant
Professor in the Business Education Department at NC A&T
State University. She has served on NCHICA's NC Consumer Advisory
Council on Health Information since its formation in 2006.
She earned her PhD in Information Systems from UNC-Greensboro,
where she also earned her BS in Information Systems and Business
Education and Master's degrees in Business Education and Information
Technology Management. Her work experience includes teaching
at various levels of the educational system in North Carolina
as well as working in the healthcare field. |
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Stephen Clark, MSHA is the
CIO and Privacy Officer for Albemarle Health, where he is responsible
for executive leadership of all enterprise information systems,
communications, and clinical engineering. He has an extensive
background in information technology, process engineering and
quality management with over 30 years of experience in the health
services field and over 35 years experience with information
systems. He earned his MSHA from Virginia Commonwealth University
and BS in Computer and Information Science from Mansfield University.
He is an ACHE Fellow and a member of CHIME and HIMSS |
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Avery Cloud, PhD is Vice President
and CIO of New Hanover Regional Medical Center. A 34-year veteran
in the field of information management, he began his career
in global manufacturing and moved briefly into disaster recovery
consulting while completing his doctorate in business information
management. He is also a widely published author and frequent
speaker. |
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Vern Davenport, MBA is President
of Government Solutions at Allscripts. He joined Allscripts
in 2008 after serving as Executive Vice President and General
Manager of Misys Healthcare Systems. Prior to this, he held
senior positions at Eastman Kodak, Siemens Medical Solutions,
Shared Medical Systems and IBM. He earned his BA in Marketing
and MBA from East Carolina University. |
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Karen Davis is Vice President
of Research Computing at RTI International. The Research Computing
Division provides systems, web, data collection and management solutions
for a wide range of research projects, including large surveys,
data repositories, health informatics and bioinformatics. She
routinely plays the role of senior advisor on large data management
and technology application projects. She has extensive experience
in financial and human resource management, leadership, and
business process re-engineering, including the application of
technology. She serves on the NCHICA Board of Directors as Treasurer. |
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Hank Dietz, MBA consults for the Office
of MMIS Services in the NC Department of Health and Human Services.
He provides critical analysis for the NC Replacement Medicaid
Management Information System development project and works
on the NC State HIE/HIT initiatives. He has managed IT departments,
built applications and supported business objectives through
IT initiatives for a variety of businesses. During his tenure
at Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of NC, he participated
in the discussions to implement electronic medical records within
the HMO. |
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Cathy Durbin is a consultant
with HIMformatics, a healthcare IT consulting firm. For over
16 years, she has worked in the healthcare delivery environment,
spending five years with an EMR vendor and the past 11 years
providing HIT consulting services. She has extensive experience
in strategic planning, system planning, project management,
system selection with hospital information systems and ambulatory
EMRs, and CPOE readiness and planning.
She holds a BS in Secondary Education and is a member of NC
HIMSS and NCHICA. |
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Dennis Falls is the Database Administrator, ETL
Manager and Information Security Officer for the Carolina
Center for Health Informatics in the Department of Emergency
Medicine at UNC-Chapel Hill. He manages the data transmission,
data loading and reporting components of NC DETECT. He has
spent the last eight years handling the extraction, standardization
and cleaning of emergency department data for public health
surveillance. He also serves as Adjunct Research Instructor
in the Department of Emergency Medicine at UNC-Chapel Hill.
He completed his GSEC certification and earned his Bachelor's
degree from the University of Central Missouri.
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Jerry Fralick, MS is the State
CIO for North Carolina. He has more than 30 years of experience
working for the federal government, including as CIO of the
Office of Justice Programs for the U.S. Department of Justice.
He was the first elected chairperson for the Federal Grants
Executive Board, which provides direction and oversight of Grants.gov.
He most recently worked as president and owner of JFCS Inc.,
a provider of marketing services to IT companies. He received
his Bachelor’s degree in Economics from LeMoyne College
and his Master’s degree in Computers and Management of
Information Technology from American University. |
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Doug Fridsma, MD, PhD is the Acting Director of the Office of Interoperability and Standards in the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology. He is currently on leave from the Department of Biomedical Informatics at Arizona State University and from his clinical practice at Mayo Clinic Scottsdale. He completed his medical training at the University of Michigan in 1990, and his PhD in Biomedical Informatics from Stanford University in 2003. His research interests include the development of computational tools to study patient safety, clinical work processes, and methods to improve model-driven standards development processes. He has served on the Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC) Board of Directors from 2005-2008, and was appointed to the HIT Standards Committee in 2009. He recently resigned from the HIT SC to become the acting director of the Office of Interoperability and Standards at ONC. |
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Dave Garrett, MBA is Senior
Vice President and CIO of Novant Health, where he is responsible for
the planning and execution of corporate information technologies
and telecommunications for the entire Novant Health system.
He has over 35 years of IT experience in banking, hospitality
and healthcare. Prior to joining Novant, he was the Senior VP
& CIO at Palmetto Health and CIO at Baptist Health Care. He
is a member of HIMSS and CHIME and serves on the NCHICA Board of
Directors. He holds a BA in Business Administration
from the University of Central Florida and MBA from Troy State
University. |
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Doug Gouy is President and
CEO of Wheelchair Professionals Inc., where he leads a nationwide
network of mobility specialists who provide mobility claims
support for most of the large health plans. Prior to this, he
was an executive with American Home Patient, a nationwide home
medical equipment provider. |
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Clyde Hewitt is the Managing
Consultant with Forsythe Solutions Group and serves on NCHICA's
Board of Directors. He is also the co-chair of NCHICA's Education
Committee and Privacy and Security Officials Workgroup. He has
served on NCHICA's Mobile Device, System Activity Review, eDiscovery,
and HITECH Task Forces. He received his BA from UNC-Chapel Hill,
MS from the University of Arkansas, and his Program Management
credentials from Defense Acquisition University, where he also
taught post-graduate level software program management from
1994 to 1996. He is a graduate of Air Command and Staff College
and Air War College. He also holds CISSP, CHS, and ISO 27001
Lead Auditor certifications. |
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Ray Hillen is a Senior Network
Security Consultant and Technical Services Manager for Secure
Enterprise Computing, Inc. He holds cerifications in CSSP and
PCI QSA. He has been active in network security for over ten
years, providing organizations a realistic and comprehensive
network security strategy. |
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Gail Hinte, MPA is a management
consultant with HIMformatics, a healthcare IT consulting firm.
For over 20 years, she has provided health care consulting services
to leading healthcare organizations and has led numerous engagements
in strategic planning, process redesign, system selection and
implementation, and provided project management and interim
management support. She has worked within hospital, physician,
payer, long-term care, and pharmaceutical organizations in support
of information technology requirements. She earned a BA from
Assumption College and an MPA in Health Administration from
Suffolk University. She is a member of HIMSS and serves as the
2010 President of the NCHICA Board of Directors. |
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Thomas Jepsen is an IT consultant and serves as Chair
of the IEEE-USA Medical Technology Policy Committee. He is
also the Chapter Chair of the IEEE Eastern North Carolina
Section and the Programming Languages Editor of IEEE IT
Professional magazine. He earned his BA from the University
of Colorado and did graduate work in Computer Science at NC
State University. He is the author of Distributed Storage
Networks: Architecture, Protocols and Management and a
contributing author of Systems Engineering Approach to
Medical Automation.
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Elizabeth Johnson, JD is an
attorney with Poyner Spruill LLP and practices privacy and information
security law in multiple sectors, including health care, financial
services, technology, client services, consumer goods and retail.
She has assisted clients in responding to dozens of security
incidents under the state laws that first mandated breach notification,
as well as responding to incidents that implicate the HHS breach
notice rule. She has been listed in Computerworld's "Best
Privacy Advisors" report, and has been named a Rising Star
by Law & Politics Magazine and one of the "top
40 under 40" by the Triangle Business Journal. |
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Douglas Kelling, MD specializes
in Pulmonary and Internal Medicine. His expertise includes specialties
in allergies, anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, with
additional experience in chronic illnesses such as Diabetes
Mellitus and Hypertension. He graduated from Harvard University
School of Medicine and completed residencies at Duke University
Medical Center and Duke University School of Medicine. He maintains
both a private practice and hospital practice and is affiliated
with Northeast Medical Center in Concord, NC and Presbyterian
Hospital in Charlotte, NC. |
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Marc Kolman, MSPH is Executive
Director of the Piedmont Health Care Consortium. He has been
involved with NCHICA since 1997, serving on the Standing Advisory
Committee, NC Consumer Advisory Council on Health Information
and NC HIE Council. He has over 20 years of public health experience,
including serving as Health Director of the Person and Anson
County, NC Health Departments. |
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Geoff Lawson is Director of
Information Systems at Morehead Memorial Hospital. He earned
a BS in Engineering from Florida Institute of Technology and
served in the US Navy as a nuclear trained submarine officer.
After his military service he worked in various leadership
and management positions in the IT field, including Chief Operating
Officer at a data processing service bureau, Software Development
Manager at a Fortune 500 company, and Executive Director of
IT Program Management for an online university. He serves on
the NCHICA Board of Directors and NHIN Steering Committee. |
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Meichun Li is a Software Engineer
and Adjunct Research Instructor at the Carolina Center for Health
Informatics in the Department of Emergency Medicine at UNC-Chapel
Hill. She leads the design, development and maintenance of the
NC DETECT web portal. She has extensive experience in developing
and applying solutions to create user-friendly, flexible Web-based
public health surveillance systems that meet privacy and security
guidelines. She received her Master's degree in Information
Science from UNC-Chapel Hill. |
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Robert Lineberger, MD is Information
Systems Medical Officer/Hospitalist at Durham Regional Hospital.
He has over 20 years of experience in both inpatient and outpatient
settings and has been involved in information systems for over
ten years. He served as Physician Champion for CPOE at Durham
Regional Hospital for three years, and CPOE has been successfully
implemented in all inpatient areas at that facility. |
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Tracy Lockard is Business Process
Director for the Cabarrus Health Alliance, where she provides
expertise in business process analysis and redesign. Currently
she is managing the implementation of a practice management/EMR
system, the development of custom applications, and integration
with a health information exchange. She holds a BA in Communications
from the University of Kentucky and a certification in Software
Product Management from the University of Washington. |
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John Loonsk, MD is Chief Medical Officer
for CGI Group, Inc. Prior to joining CGI, he was Director of Interoperability and Standards in the Office
of the National Coordinators for Health Information Technology. He is a Fellow of the American College
of Medical Informatics and a member of the American Medical
Informatics Association, the Association of Medical Directors
of Information Systems and HIMSS. Previously, he served as Assistant
Dean at the UNC-Chapel Hill School of Medicine. He received
his medical training from SUNY-Buffalo after graduating from
Johns Hopkins University. |
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Michael Magliaro is the National
Healthcare Industry Practice Leader for TM Floyd & Company.
His 30 years of healthcare and health plan experience includes
ten years in CEO roles in fee-for-service and managed care organizations
and 20 years of consulting. He has significant experience in
business and clinical information reengineering, information
systems selection and implementation (including EHR), program
management, and revenue cycle management. He has developed a
Comprehensive Operations-Based ICD-10 Compliance Program
to achieve competitive advantage while improving operations
and reducing costs. |
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Richard Markeson is the CTO
of Carolinas IT. He has consulted on best practices concerning
IT administration for Fortune 500 companies, government, higher
education, and Department of Defense contracting entities across
the nation since 1996. |
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Dave McCord is the Director
of Application Development for TM Floyd & Company. He has
over 30 years of experience in healthcare and banking information
technology, including executive leadership, large-scale mainframe
systems, integrated client-server applications and architecture,
and browser-based applications. He has worked on billing and
electronic claims processing and on EMRs on multiple platforms
and levels of connectivity. |
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Jan McCoy is Director of EMR Solutions
for CTG HealthCare Solutions, where she focuses on client relationships,
solution and methodology development, and quality delivery of
service. She serves on CTG's ARRA Board and has been actively
involved in CTG's HL7, Security Management, EMR Standards, ISO
Certification, and JCAHO IM standards adherence committees.
In addition to contributing to CTG's management team for over
14 years in a variety of leadership roles, she established the
CTG United Kingdom and European Union Healthcare division. Prior
to joining CTG, she held multiple IT management roles in integrated
networks and academic medical centers. |
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Jim Murphy, MS is the Information Security
Official for the Office of MMIS Services in the NC Department
of Health and Human Services, and Information Security Lead
for the NC Replacement Medicaid Management Information System
(MMIS) development project and other related projects. He plans
and administers security for the Office and reviews all aspects
of system development and enterprise security throughout the
design and development of the MMIS and related projects. He
has an MS in Information Science and holds GSEC, CISSP-ISSMP,
CISA and CISM certifications. |
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Patt Peterson, RHIA, is the
Director of Education at the American Health Information Management
Association (AHIMA) and serves as a resource for faculty and
college administrators throughout the U.S. She evaluates and
updates the model curricula for certificate, associate, baccalaureate,
and master degree programs. In addition, she serves on a variety
of national committees with oversight for health informatics
and information management education in the U.S. She also teaches
at the University of Illinois at Chicago in the Department of
Biomedical and Health Information Sciences graduate program. |
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Belinda Pirtle is the CEO of
HCMI Solutions. She is a senior
training advisor and subject matter expert for health IT systems
deployment and implementation. She is also an active participant
in healthcare technology and managed care educational activities,
which includes regularly speaking at the national TEPR (Towards
Electronic Patient Records) conference and Lormans Educational
Services. With a BS in Telecommunications and certifications,
her expertise includes IT and HIT Systems Consulting, Project
Management and Training. |
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Rick Reddel is Chief Technology
Officer of Proficient Health. He has over 22 years of experience in leading high tech engineering, software development,
and operations teams. In the last 14 years, he has built several
successful software product design and development companies
each with a mission to advance and improve software technology.
He earned a BS in Electrical Engineering from Colorado State
University. |
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Marla Roberts, DrPH, RN is Delivery Manager
for Professional Services at CTG HealthCare Solutions. She has
over 30 years of experience in healthcare. Specializing in operational
performance improvement, she has a doctorate in organizational
development and evaluation research plus Lean/Six Sigma and
project management certifications. She has led numerous large-scale
transformation projects in a varety of large complex environments.
Currently she is consulting with an IDN to implement a performance
management program that includes meaningful use measures in
conjunction with other current quality measures. |
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Pam Scott, JD is an attorney with Poyner
Spruill LLP. She has assisted
both covered entities and business associates in tackling HIPAA
and HITECH compliance issues, crafting policies and contracts,
and responding to HIPAA complaints. She also represents health
care providers in a wide variety of regulatory matters including
certificate of need, regulatory compliance, professional licensure,
and rulemaking proceedings before the NC Rules Review
Commission. She has worked with a broad range of providers,
from small physician practices to large corporations. |
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Paul Skinner is VP of Sales and Customer
Support for Authentidate, where he leads the sales and client
services function for Inscrybe. He started his career in the
Navy and held various positions in the data management and security
field. His 20 years cumulative experience in the application
of technology and insight solutions in the life sciences and
healthcare marketplaces make him a sought-after speaker at home
care and technology events.
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Doug Smith, MBA is CEO of
Greene County Health Care, an advanced medical home. He also
serves as CEO/CIO of Community Partners HealthNet, Inc., a network
of community/migrant health centers that also serves five rural
health clinics. He serves on the Board of Directors of the NC Primary Health Care Association and is a member of
the National Association of Community Health Centers. He is
also an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at ECU Brody School of Medicine. He earned his MBA from Wharton
School of Business. |
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Gary Swindon, MBA is COO and
CIO of NEMEA Security Services, where he is responsible for
the day-to-day management of the company. Prior to this he held
senior positions in both public and private sector organizations
including Orlando Regional Healthcare and WebMD. He was responsible
for successfully leading the consolidation of more than 20 data
centers for the state of Michigan and conducted similar projects
for the federal government and private industry. He has served
as a Director for the ISACA CISM certification board, where he
served on the international panel that conducted the practice
analysis for security certification.
He holds a BA from the University of Dayton, an MBA from Boston
University, and CISM certification. |
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Diane Taylor, RN a Principal
Consultant with CTG HealthCare Solutions where she currently
focuses on Clinical Transformation and Process Redesign. She
has over 26 years of experience as a nurse, 12 of which have been
in Informatics. Prior to joining CTG, she held multiple roles
in CPOE implementations and Evidence-Based Programs. She is
a member of ANIA-Caring and is attending the University of St.
Francis for a Masters in Healthcare Administration. |
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Kimberly Williams is Vice
President of Billing Operations Accounts Receivable Applications
for Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings (LabCorp). She
serves as Chairwoman of the Transactions and Code Sets Committee
of the American Clinical Laboratory Association and co-chair
of NCHICA's ICD-10 Task Force. Under her leadership, LabCorp
successfully migrated all of its electronic third party billing
to the HIPAA transactions and code sets and successfully transitioned
to the National Provider Identifier mandate. She is currently
leading the business transition to achieve 5010 and ICD-10 compliance. |
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Debbie Zanes is the Sr. Manager for Clinical
Informatics at Durham Regional Hospital, where she is responsible
for the support of Clinical Informatics including CPOE. She
holds a BSN degree with a nursing informatics and a project
management background. Prior to joining Durham Regional, she
was a healthcare consultant doing project management and programming
for Siemens clients involving order entry and nursing documentation.
She holds certifications in ITIL and PMP. |
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Frederick Zufeit, JD is an
Assoicate with Smith Anderson, where he concentrates his practice
on health care law. He graduated from the UNC School of Law,
where he served on the North Carolina Law Review. An
accomplished musician, he graduated from the Manhattan School
of Music and played trombone professionally prior to attending
law school. |
