Technology is becoming a major force in the healthcare industry as providers scramble to not only meet government regulations but to provide the best care for their patients in the most efficient way possible.
Here are 26 of the health IT industry’s brightest leaders. Disclaimer: List selections were made through an editorial review process, and people could not pay to be included. The list is in alphabetical order.
Peter Basch, MD. Dr. Basch is the director for ambulatory electronic health records and health IT policy at MedStar in Columbia, M.D., as well as a senior fellow for health IT policy with the Center for American Progress and a visiting scholar with the Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform of the Brookings Institution. He represents the American College of Physicians at the Physicians’ EHR Coalition, co-founded by Dr. Basch in 2004.
David Blumenthal, MD. Dr. Blumenthal is best known for serving as the National Coordinator for Health IT from 2009 to 2011. During his tenure, he oversaw the implementation of the meaningful use program and other provisions of the HITECH Act.
Patricia Flatley Brennan, RN, PhD. Dr. Brennan is a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Nursing and the director of the Wisconsin Integrated Advanced Information Management System initiative, which aims to improve IT infrastructure in health sciences schools.
Jonathan Bush. Mr. Bush is the co-founder, CEO and president of athenahealth, a vendor of cloud-based EHRs and related products. The company currently serves more than 38,000 providers and was the top overall software vendor and top overall physician practice vendor in 2013 by KLAS Research.
Arthur Davidson, MD. Dr. Davidson currently serves as the director of public health informatics at Denver Public Health and is a principle investigator of Colorado’s State and Regional Demonstration Project, an Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality-backed initiative to improve data sharing and interoperability.
Karen DeSalvo, MD. Dr. DeSalvo currently serves as National Coordinator for Health IT, overseeing all ONC activities and promoting the use of health IT throughout the country.
Judith Faulkner. Ms. Faulkner founded Epic Systems in 1979. Epic is currently one of the nation’s largest electronic health record vendors — once all organizations currently under an Epic contract complete installing their systems, half of all Americans will have an Epic health record.
Naomi Fried, PhD. Dr. Fried is Boston Children’s Hospital’s first chief innovation officer. She is currently building the hospital’s Innovation Acceleration Program, which aims to bring a culture of creativity and innovation to the organization and facilitate the discoveries that will help Boston Children’s succeed in the new healthcare industry.
John Halamka, MD. Dr. Halamka began serving as CIO of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston in 1998. He is also CIO and Dean for Technology at Harvard Medical School and a practicing emergency physician.
Elizabeth Casey Halley, RN. Ms. Halley is a principal at the Center for Transforming Health, a federally funded research and development center. She is an expert on nursing and health IT, and has presented and written extensively on the topic.
Michael L. Hodgkins, MD. Dr. Hodgkins serves as CMIO of the American Medical Association, where he is responsible for crafting the AMA’s overall health IT strategy. He is largely focused on how to design and implement health IT systems as to provide maximum benefit for clinicians.
George Hripcsak, MD. Dr. Hripcsak is the director of medical informatics services at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, the chair of Columbia University’s department of biomedical informatics, senior informatics adviser to the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene and the co-chair of the ONC’s Health IT Policy Committee’s meaningful use workgroup.
Christopher U. Lehmann, MD. Dr. Lehmann is the founding medical director of the Child Health Informatics Center, part of the American Academy of Pediatrics. He is also a professor of pediatrics and biomedical informatics at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn. He currently serves as a member of the Health IT Policy Committee.
Ed Marx. Mr. Marx is senior vice president and CIO of Texas Health Resources in Arlington, one of the largest faith-based, nonprofit healthcare delivery systems in the United States and the largest in North Texas in terms of patients served. He has served in his current role since 2010.
Michael Matthews. Mr. Matthews is the CEO of inHEALTH, a clinically integrated delivery network in Richmond, Va., as well as the CEO of MedVirginia, a regional health information exchange that was the first in the country to connect online with federal agencies. He is also the president and chair of Healtheway, the national HIE.
Ronald Merrell, MD. Dr. Merrell is the director of the Medical Informatics and Technology Applications Consortium, located on the campus of Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond and sponsored by NASA. The center tests telemedicine capabilities for human space flight needs as well as helps to bring the technology to market.
Blackford Middleton, MD. Dr. Middleton is the assistant vice chancellor for health affairs, chief informatics officer and professor of biomedical informatics at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn. He previously served as corporate director of clinical informatics research and development at Partners HealthCare in Boston and medical director of information management and technology at Stanford (Calif.) University Medical Center.
Farzad Mostashari, MD. Dr. Mostashari serves as a visiting fellow to the Brookings Institute’s Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform, a role in which he advises on payment reform and delivery system transformation.
Geeta Nayyar, MD. Dr. Nayyar is currently the CMIO for patient engagement solutions vendor PatientPoint. Previously, she was AT&T’s first CMIO, where she guided the development of the company’s ForHealthSM program and overall mHealth strategy.
Neal Patterson. Mr. Patterson is the co-founder, chairman and CEO of EHR vendor Cerner. Founded in 1979, the company is now the world’s largest independent health IT company, with revenues in excess of $2.5 billion per year.
Cris Ross. Mr. Ross came to Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., as CIO in 2010 after serving Surescripts, where he led the company’s interoperability business as executive vice president and general manager of clinical interoperability. Prior to joining Surescripts, Mr. Ross served as CIO and then executive vice president of product and information services at MinuteClinic during a period of rapid growth, as the retail clinic expanded from 60 to 650 clinics.
Leslie Saxon, MD. Dr. Saxon is the founder and executive director of the University of Southern California Center for Body Computing in Los Angeles. The center researches, develops and promotes digital and wireless health solutions that improve overall health and wellness and increase access to care.
Rasu Shrestha, MD. Dr. Shrestha is the vice president for medical information technology and the medical director of interoperability and imaging informatics at Pittsburgh-based UPMC. He has made significant gains in “un-siloing” UPMC’s 4 terabytes of data to improve the quality of information available to physicians at the point of care.
Paul Tang, MD. Dr. Tang is currently the vice president, chief innovation officer and CTO at the Palo Alto (Calif.) Medical Foundation, where he directs the David Druker Center for Health Systems Innovation, and is also a professor of medicine at Stanford (Calif.) University.
Eric J. Topol, MD. Dr. Topol is the founder and director of the Scripps Translational Science Institute in San Diego, a Scripps Health research facility that seeks ways to personalize medicine through genomics and personal monitoring devices and other technologies. He is also the chief academic officer at Scripps Health and the chair of innovative medicine at the Scripps Research Institute.
Michael H. Zaroukian, MD, PhD. Dr. Zaroukian currently serves as CMIO of Sparrow Health System in Lansing, Mich. He is also a professor of medicine at Michigan State University in Lansing.
Source: http://www.beckershospitalreview.com/healthcare-information-technology/26-of-the-smartest-people-in-health-it.html
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