NHII ADVISORS

NHII Advisors was founded by William A. Yasnoff, MD, PhD, who serves as Managing Partner. Prior to establishing the firm in early 2005, Dr. Yasnoff served as Senior Advisor, NHII, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Beginning in late 2002, he initiated, organized, and developed the HHS activities directed at promoting and encouraging the NHII, which led to an additional $50 million in the President's FY05 budget request and the Presidential creation of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, establishing the NHII as a widely recognized goal for the nation. Dr. Yasnoff organized and served as Program Chair for the first national NHII Conference in 2003, where a consensus action agenda was developed and the Secretary of HHS announced the historic Federal government license agreement for the comprehensive standard medical vocabulary SNOMED. In recognition of his pioneering contributions to the field of public health informatics and the..