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-- Lori Evans, M.P.H., M.P.P., Deputy Commissioner, New York State
Department of Health
-- Steven Findlay, M.P.H., Health Care Analyst and Editor, Consumer
Reports Best Buy Drugs, Consumers Union
-- Thomas Fritz, M.A., M.P.A., CEO, Inland Northwest Health Services
-- C. Martin Harris, M.D., M.B.A. Chief Information Officer and Chairman,
Information Technology Division, Cleveland Clinic
-- Kevin Hutchinson, President and CEO, Prematics, Inc.
-- Charles Kennedy, M.D., M.B.A., Vice President for Health Information
Technology, WellPoint, Inc.
-- Michael Lardiere, L.C.S.W., Director, Health Information Technology and
Senior Advisor, Behavioral Health, National Association of Community
Health Centers
-- Stephen Ruberg, Ph.D., Senior Research Fellow, Eli Lilly & Company
-- Lisa Simpson, M.B., B.Ch., M.P.H., Professor, University of Cincinnati,
and Director, Child Policy Research Center, Cincinnati Children's
Hospital
-- Paul Tang, M.D., M.S., Vice President and Chief Medical Information
Officer, Palo Alto Medical Foundation
In addition to the new Board members listed above, HHS Secretary Mike Leavitt and Veterans Affairs Secretary James Peake will serve as federal liaisons to the board. The National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, Robert Kolodner, M.D., will continue to coordinate federal input into the public-private process.
"In the three years since AHIC was created and began submitting recommendations to me, 52 harmonized standards for health information technology have been established," Secretary Leavitt said. "I expect to recognize 60 additional harmonized standards by January 2009."
"So the concept of having the public and private sectors collaborate to
advance standards development is working,"
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