INTEROPERABILITY SHOWCASE - Key Persons
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- Global Director, Global Healthcare Solutions, Google Cloud
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- Chairman of Family and Community Medicine Department
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- Chief Clinical Officer
- Member of the Board
- President
Amy Compton-Phillips, M.D., is an internationally respected health care executive, innovator, speaker and author serving as executive vice president and chief clinical officer for Providence. She is responsible for improving health, care and value outcomes delivered by the 51 hospitals, 1,085 clinics, and 120,000 caregivers of the $25 billion health system.
Dr. Compton-Phillips serves on the boards of WellCare, the Institute of Systems Biology, Lumedic, Multiscale Health Networks, and chairs the High Value Healthcare Collaborative.
Prior to joining Providence in 2015, Dr. Compton- Phillips served 22 years Kaiser Permanente. She began as a front-line internist, and through a succession of roles spent her last years there as chief quality officer. Her main focus was on improving healthcare value at scale.
Dr. Compton-Phillips holds a bachelor's degree from Johns Hopkins University and earned her medical degree from the University of Maryland School of Medicine. She is a board-certified internist, with strong interests in innovation and wellness.
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- Chief Clinical Information Officer
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- Chief Financial Officer
- Executive Management / Chief Financial Officer
Tuzik has also spent time developing operational teams and implementing IT systems focused on process improvement and organizational efficiency. She holds a Bachelor of Science in accountancy from DePaul University and is a member of the Illinois CPA Society
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- Chief Medical Information Officer, Head of IT and Innovation, Member of the Board / Catholic University Hospital Group / France
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- Founder
- Member of the Board
- Principal
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- Member of the Board
- Partner
- BAHAMA Consulting / Partner
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- Executive Management / Vice President, Strategy & Program Operations
- Vice President of Strategy
- Vice President, Strategy & Program Operations
Christel Anderson, MA, is vice president of strategy and program operations for HIMSS, a global advisor and thought leader supporting the transformation of the health ecosystem through information and technology. In this role, Anderson drives the organization forward, guiding the executive leadership team, the strategic roadmap and overall enterprise performance to achieve the HIMSS vision and mission. She focuses on translating organizational strategy into functional execution.
Anderson has served HIMSS as an informatics subject matter expert for the past 15 years, publishing and lecturing on the awareness and impact of clinical informatics as the integration of science, data, wisdom and knowledge. She has led the development and execution of global research projects, peer-reviewed publications, trailblazing communities, standards awareness, technology adoption, policy engagement, clinician workforce development and a pursuit to drive transformational change to better the health of all populations.
She holds a master's degree in political science from the University of Illinois. In her free time, Anderson is a devoted member of the Book of the Month club and enjoys riding her bicycle and taking family adventures with her husband and their daughter.
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- Chief Marketing & Communications Officer
- Chief Marketing & Communications Officer for HIMSS
- Executive Management / Chief Marketing & Communications Officer
Christine Buck is chief marketing & communications officer for HIMSS, a global advisor and thought leader supporting the transformation of the health ecosystem through information and technology. In this role, Christine leads planning and development of global marketing strategy across all products, channels, and regions. She directs a team that plays a critical role in the organization's growth and revenue generation through product marketing, brand management, market research, corporate communications, and advertising. In collaboration with other senior leaders across multiple groups, Christine works to build a strong, company-wide marketing philosophy characterized by agile decision-making, focus on innovation, experimentation, data-driven accountability, and diversity of thinking.
Christine's experience is broad and uniquely global with almost 27 years of B2B sales and marketing expertise from roles held in financial services, software, and consulting industries. Christine has built and led teams globally across brand management, creative, product marketing, research, pricing, and analyst relations for leading firms Hootsuite, Morningstar, Huron Consulting, Accenture, Bank of America, and Microsoft.
She is passionate about social advocacy and has served as the Vice President for Barnett Family Foundation of Chicago since 2009, where she works closely with leading nonprofits to further programming in education and medical research.
Christine lives in Chicago with her family and holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Georgia in French and Anthropology.
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- CIO
- Member of the Board
- Chairman of the Board of the EHealth Initiative
- CIO, Mayo Clinic
Cris Ross, CIO, Mayo Clinic, has 30 years prior experience in healthcare, technology and government. At Mayo Clinic, he is responsible for all information technology. Since joining in 2012, he has revamped IT strategy, helped lead an enterprise-wide EHR convergence program, developed partnerships and initiated major innovation programs in data, analytics and machine learning. Prior to joining Mayo Clinic, he held technology and business leadership roles with Surescripts, MinuteClinic and UnitedHealth Group. Previously he held various roles as a tech entrepreneur, financial manager and a congressional aide.
Ross is chairman of the Board of the eHealth Initiative and serves on the boards of directors for Zipnosis, an emerging telehealth vendor. He was a member of the Health IT Standards Committee for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services from 2009 to 2016 and has served on advisory panels for the American Hospital Association, American Medical Association, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, HL7, and the Veterans Administration.
Ross earned a bachelor's degree in economics from University of Minnesota and a master's degree from Yale School of Management.
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- CEO, RECAINSA / Digital Health Technical Advisor
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- Board Member / Director - IHT Project Management Office
- Director - IHT Project Management Office
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- Board Member / Head of International Engagement
- Head of International Engagement
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- Vice Chair HIMSS APAC / Advisor to Mitsubishi Global Health Architecture / Malaysia
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- CIO
- Member of the Board
- Chief Information Officer / GVM Care and Research Group / Italy
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- Executive Management / General Counsel
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- Board Member / Former Minister of Health, Welfare and Sport / the Netherlands
- the Netherlands / Former Minister of Health, Welfare and Sport
Ernst Kuipers has extensive experience in healthcare, medical research, and government as clinician, healthcare executive, and Minister of Health, Welfare and Sport of the Netherlands. He will next serve as Vice-President Research for Nanyang Technological University in Singapore.
As the Netherlands' Health Minister from 2022 to 2024, Prof Kuipers led the country's plan to improve pandemic and disaster preparedness during the COVID-19 pandemic. He also focused on a broad integrated care agenda and nationwide healthcare system reform to keep healthcare sustainable and affordable. To support this process, Ernst among others passed a law on electronic health data exchange. He further closed a Green Deal with the healthcare sector to increase its resilience and reduce its ecological footprint.
Before becoming Minister, Ernst long served Erasmus MC University Medical Center in Rotterdam, the Netherlands as CEO and earlier as Professor of Medicine and Department Chair. As CEO, he led the transformation to a new ‘smart' hospital that forms part of the European University Hospital Alliance. Ernst was also Member of the Governing Board of the National University Health System in Singapore and a member of the Board of Curacao Medical Center. He further acted as Chair of the Dutch National Emergency Medicine Network, which played a major role during the covid pandemic. Ernst earned a medical degree, and completed training in Internal Medicine and Gastroenterology in the Netherlands. He subsequently worked at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville TN, and then joined Erasmus MC.
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- President Commissioner / Jakarta Heart Center / Indonesia
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- President and CEO of HIMSS
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- CEO
- President
- Executive Management / President & CEO
Harold (Hal) Wolf is the president and CEO of HIMSS, a global advisor and thought leader supporting the transformation of the health ecosystem through information and technology.
Wolf is respected internationally as a healthcare and informatics leader, with areas of expertise in mHealth, product development, integrated care models, marketing, distribution, information and technology, and large-scale innovation implementation.
Before joining HIMSS, Wolf served at The Chartis Group as director, practice leader, information and digital health strategy. Prior to The Chartis Group, he served as senior vice president and COO of Kaiser Permanente's The Permanente Federation, representing more than 16,000 physicians. Wolf also held executive positions at MTV Networks and Time Warner, and served as senior advisor to McKinsey & Co.
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- Executive Management / Chief Administration Officer
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- National Advisor SIS, Conseiller National Systèmes D'Information De Santé
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- Executive Director, Health IT Strategy and Policy
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- National Director Clinical Governance
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- Member of the Americas Advisory Board
- Director, Health Innovation Center / the MITRE Corporation / Chair
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- Chief Commercial Officer, Circle Health Group / UK
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- Head of Department, PhD, Odense University Hospital
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- Board Member / EVP - Client Partnerships / Nordic
- Nordic / EVP - Client Partnerships
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- Chief Medical Information Officer
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- Executive Management / Chief Relationship Officer
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- Group Chief
- Board Member / Group Chief Digital Strategy Officer and Chief Data Officer
- Group Chief Digital Strategy Office ( GCDSO ) and Chief Data Officer
Mr Benedict Tan is the Group Chief Digital Strategy Officer (GCDSO) and Chief Data Officer (CDO) for Singapore Health Services (SingHealth) cluster.
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- Vice Superintendent, Orthopedic Surgeon / China Medical University Hospital / Taiwan
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- Board Member / CIO & Deputy - DG
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- Member of the Americas Advisory Board
- EVP & Chief Innovation & Commercialization Officer
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- Chief Products Officer
- Chief Products Officer at HIMSS
- Executive Management / Chief Products Officer
Reid Oakes is the Chief Products Officer at HIMSS. a global advisor and thought leader supporting the transformation of the health ecosystem through information and technology. In this role, he is responsible for industry alignment, product strategy, and go-to-market for the HIMSS product and services portfolio. These products include thought leadership and innovative solutions that assess, measure and guide organizations on their path to digital maturity, research that reveals insights and evidence about how digital maturity helps achieve better health outcomes, and professional development solutions to train the current and next generation of health leaders to advance digital health maturity.
Oakes was previously Executive Vice President, Analytics for HIMSS. Before joining HIMSS, he served as the Global Head and General Manager for Health Industries at HP Inc., where he focused on innovation and strategic solution engineering for the healthcare payer, provider and health sciences industries. Prior to HP, he held progressive roles with Oracle, Novell and consulting organizations. He is also a proud U.S. Air Force veteran.
Oakes brings more than 20 years of experience in delivering IT solutions for healthcare based on a strong technical foundation, strategic growth mindset and passionate focus on making a difference in the global healthcare markets. He is a recognized industry leader, having served in leadership capacities across standard-setting organizations, industry consortiums, national policy and numerous geography level health collaborations. He served on the boards of the Personal Connected Health Alliance (PCHA), and Continua Health Alliance-focusing on the adoption of personalized digital health technologies.
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- Director
- Member of the Board
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- CEO
- Member of the Board
- CEO and Board Director at Cherish Health, Inc
Sumit Kumar Nagpal is a serial entrepreneur with a focus on disruptive digital health innovation at scale. Over the past 25 years, he cofounded and grew five companies that tackle progressively bolder systemic challenges in healthcare experience, cost and access.
Nagpal currently serves as CEO and board director at Cherish Health, Inc., a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based company that he cofounded. Cherish Health develops advanced sensors and AI combined with medical evidence and human touch, focusing on the elderly, the frail, and those living with chronic conditions to improve their lives and proactively enable supported self-care.
Nagpal began his career working with Steve Jobs at NeXT, Inc., who taught him how to abstract complex problems and systems down to their essence. Trained as a software developer, Nagpal also learned how to architect large-scale systems to meet the needs of Fortune 100 clients.
In 1993, Nagpal launched Wellogic, where he created one of the industry's earliest longitudinal health records for hospitals. The next generation of his work fused workflows and patient information across multiple organizations and enabled remote consultations-all before broadband and before internet was ubiquitous.
As his vision grew, Nagpal aimed at more complex new challenges-creating regional health information sharing networks by integrating patient information from laboratories, pharmacies, imaging centers and others involved in care delivery with records from health and social care providers-all to enable safer patient care. Nagpal sold this company to diagnostics supplier Alere (now a part of Abbott) to bring connected health solutions to market that integrated medical records with medical device data in community and patient home settings to proactively predict risk and intervene early to avoid cost and higher acuity.
After Alere's acquisition of Wellogic, Nagpal started LumiraDx, where he worked with his partners to launch a portable diagnostic device and platform that brings reference lab precision testing into ambulances, physician offices, emergency rooms, remote village clinics and more.
Nagpal's next startup was Carefully, where he focused on the vision of a hospital alternative at home. While incubating Carefully, he joined Accenture as managing director and global lead for digital health strategy. Afterward, he joined Comcast NBCUniversal as senior vice president and global general manager for health Iinovation. Nagpal then formed his next high-growth startup, Cherish Health-merging Carefully into the company to focus on enabling safety, wellbeing and care in the home.
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- Executive Director of the HIMSS Foundation
- Executive Management / Senior Vice President & Head of Government Relations
- Member of the Leary Bunch
- Senior Vice President & Head of Government Relations
- Senior Vice President & Head of Government Relations at HIMSS
Tom Leary is senior vice president & head of government relations at HIMSS. In this role, Leary leads the organization's digital health policy development work and strategic engagements with government and membership. He guides a team that provides legislative and regulatory analysis and practical guidance on health information and technology policy development. Through policy analysis and outreach to establish support, he leads priority engagements and strategies to achieve the HIMSS vision: to realize the full health potential of every human, everywhere.
Leary also serves as the executive director of the HIMSS Foundation. As the philanthropic arm of HIMSS, the foundation enriches public discourse on public policy and helps advance clinician informatics and data science education through granting academic scholarships and other opportunities. The foundation fosters partnerships to advance access and inclusion in the healthcare community.
Leary's tenure at HIMSS began in 2003 as director of federal affairs, working with a small team of HIMSS staff to launch the government relations team. Later he was promoted to senior director, federal affairs-leading the team's engagement with U.S. federal government on policy topics spanning everything from meaningful use to EHR modernization at the Departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs (DoD).
Prior to HIMSS, Leary was a division manager for SAIC's TRICARE division, where he was engaged in the coordination of healthcare administrative outsourcing solutions for the Military Health System (MHS). His government experience includes time on Capitol Hill working as an LA for Rep. Les Aspin (D-WI) before heading to the Pentagon with the Aspin Team as a Clinton Administration political appointee.
Leary's previous roles at DoD included staff assistant and special assistant for healthcare policy positions in the Office of the Secretary of Defense Legislative Affairs-followed by a shift to focus exclusively on federal healthcare policy as the Special Assistant to the Assistant Secretary for Health Affairs. As part of the senior management team, he worked to address important issues like medical readiness and peacetime healthcare delivery for military.
For professional enrichment, Leary teaches an online course on medical informatics and decision management for The George Washington University's Master of Health Administration program. He also served as the treasurer of Falls Church High School's Parent Teacher Student Association.
Leary earned his master's degree in legislative affairs from The George Washington University. He also earned a bachelor's degree in history and political science from Rutgers University, He is a Certified Association Executive (CAE) through the American Society of Association Executives (ASAE), and has completed the Georgetown University Executive Leadership Certificate program.
Tom is a proud member of the Leary Bunch from Wanaque, NJ. He lives in Falls Church, VA with his awesome educator wife, Day, and teenage sons, Jackson Thomas and Marcus Paul, who are his current and future heroes!
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- Member of the Board
- Nordic / Client Partner Executive
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- Board Member / Professor of Anesthesiology and Medicine