WASHINGTON, DC (January 18, 2011) - National eHealth Collaborative's (NeHC) Board of Directors today kicked off its first meeting of 2011 by announcing the unanimous election of seven leaders in the health and healthcare fields to the Board. Board Members were elected by the NeHC membership on January 14, 2011. Recently elected Board Members include Dr. Simon Cohn, who will also serve as Chair of the NeHC Board of Directors in 2011. Other newly elected Board members include:
Holt Anderson - Executive Director, North Carolina Healthcare Information & Communications Alliance (NCHICA)
David W. Baker, MD, MPH - Professor, Department of Medicine; Chief of General Internal Medicine, Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University
Alice Brown, JD - Health Information Technology Policy Director, National Partnership for Women and Families
C. Martin Harris, MD, MPH - Chairman of Information Technology Division, Cleveland Clinic
Patricia MacTaggart, MBA, MMA - Lead Research Scientist, George Washington University
Charles Parker - Executive Director, Continua Health Alliance
"Given NeHC's role as a forum for broad stakeholder engagement in developing real-world solutions that identify and address gaps and barriers to broad implementation of health information exchange, it was important to the NeHC Nominations Committee that we recommended candidates who were truly representative of the diversity in stakeholder communities across the field of health IT. We have added some exciting new talents to our Board today and we look forward to working with them through 2011," said NeHC Nominations Committee Chair Janet Corrigan, PhD, President and CEO of the National Quality Forum. "I am delighted to welcome new members to the NeHC Board of Directors who bring such an impressive breadth of knowledge and experience from across the healthcare and health IT landscape. We enter 2011 with a strong vision and a new CEO, so I am confident that this Board will move swiftly toward achieving our goals for the organization," said NeHC Board Chair Simon Cohn, MD, MPH, Associate Executive Director, Health Information Policy, Kaiser Permanente Foundation. NeHC welcomed its new CEO Kate Berry and hosted its first Stakeholder Forum of 2011 as part of today's Board of Directors meeting. Materials from the Stakeholder Forum, which focused on consumer engagement in health IT, are available on the NeHC website at http://www.nationalehealth.org/ShowContent.aspx?id=548.
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About National eHealth Collaborative National eHealth Collaborative (NeHC) is a public-private partnership that enables secure and interoperable nationwide health information exchange to advance health and improve health care. Working in conjunction with its partners, including the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), NeHC engages stakeholders in a collaborative and consensus-driven way to realize common goals that lead to transformative change. NeHC reaches broadly into all sectors of healthcare and health IT, employs open and inclusive methods, and makes its outcomes broadly available for continued improvement. This philosophy and approach allows NeHC to offer a uniquely balanced perspective that leverages diverse points of view and provides the essential public-private platform for collaboratively pursuing solutions to universal trusted and effective health information exchange.
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